Lead AI-Powered Design System Architect

Into Design Systems; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Assembled is hiring a product designer to lead the next generation of its design system, defining visual language, interaction foundations, components, and patterns for AI-native products. You will partner with a Design Systems Engineer to pioneer AI-assisted design-system workflows and extend the system across complex product problems.

This onsite role is based in the San Francisco office, five days a week, working with cross-functional teams to ship scalable, reusable patterns and governance

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing and shipping production B2B software.
• Exceptional visual craft and a high bar demonstrated in shipped work.
• Ability to design primitives and reusable patterns that scale across a product.
• Experience structuring Figma libraries, tokens, variables, components, and documentation for use across multiple teams.
• Ability to collaborate with frontend engineers on component APIs, responsive behavior, accessibility, states, and implementation tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the next generation of Assembled's design system, defining visual language, interaction foundations, components, and patterns across desktop and mobile.
• Create documentation, a contribution model, and governance for how the system evolves and is adopted by designers and engineers.
• Define reusable interaction patterns for AI-native products for how people direct, trust, review, and collaborate with AI agents.
• Partner with the Design Systems Engineer to use coding agents to generate production-quality UI, measure component usage and adherence, and speed design-to-implementation.
• Work with product teams to convert solutions for data-dense, high-complexity workflows into reusable patterns that improve the product.

Skills

Design systems

Figma

B2B product design

Systems thinking

Collaboration

Job description

Assembled is hiring a product designer to lead the next generation of its design system, defining visual language, interaction foundations, components, and patterns for AI-native products. You will partner with a Design Systems Engineer to pioneer AI-assisted design-system workflows and extend the system across complex product problems.

This onsite role is based in the San Francisco office, five days a week, working with cross-functional teams to ship scalable, reusable patterns and governance