Director of Design Systems & Front-End Engineering

AssetMark; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flex Time or PTO

401K – Employer Match

Medical, Dental, Vision

Job summary

AssetMark is seeking a Director, Staff Design Engineer to bridge product design and front-end engineering, with a focus on user experience, design systems, and agentic software design. You’ll turn design intent into scalable, production-quality patterns and components while helping designers and engineers explore new experiences faster.

You’ll work across our design language, UI architecture, interaction design patterns, and capabilities to make it easier for teams to build coherent,

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in modern front-end development, particularly React, TypeScript, HTML and CSS.
• Experience building and maintaining component libraries or design systems.
• Strong understanding of design tokens, component APIs, responsive design, and accessibility.
• High visual UI craft and attention to implementation detail.
• Experience with Figma and modern prototyping workflows.
• Ability to prototype rapidly in both design tools and code.
• Understanding of front-end architecture, performance, testing, and maintainability.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with product designers, product managers, and application engineers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted design and development tools and emerging design-to-code workflows.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve reusable, accessible, production-quality UI components and patterns.
• Translate design language, interaction patterns, and design tokens into scalable front-end systems.
• Partner with designers and engineers to ensure design intent carries through to production.
• Establish patterns that make high-quality user experiences easier and faster for product teams to build.
• Improve consistency across products while allowing patterns to evolve with user and business needs.
• Identify gaps between design systems, application architecture, and actual product experiences and help close them.
• Frame user problems with Product and Design and explore solutions.
• Create prototypes from Figma concepts to functional React experiences.
• Use working software to explore interaction models, workflows, and emerging product concepts.
• Contribute strong interaction design, visual design, and front-end perspectives to product decisions.
• Understand advisor workflows and translate complex financial processes into clear experiences.

Skills

React

TypeScript

HTML

CSS

Design systems

Component libraries

Design tokens

Responsive design

Accessibility

Figma

Prototyping

Cross-team collaboration

Communication skills

Tools

Figma

Job description

AssetMark is seeking a Director, Staff Design Engineer to bridge product design and front-end engineering, with a focus on user experience, design systems, and agentic software design. You’ll turn design intent into scalable, production-quality patterns and components while helping designers and engineers explore new experiences faster.

You’ll work across our design language, UI architecture, interaction design patterns, and capabilities to make it easier for teams to build coherent,