Lead Design Systems Architect for Cross-Platform UI

Into Design Systems

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 230,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Etsy is hiring a Staff Product Designer on the Design Systems team within UX Platform to drive growth and architecture of Collage, Etsy's design system used across web, iOS, Android, and Flutter. The role focuses on making the system opinionated rather than reactive, defining pattern libraries, closing gaps in component proposal/build/graduation/retirement, and operating the system efficiently at scale.

This is a full-time position reporting to the Senior Product Design Manager for Design

Qualifications

Portfolio showing design systems work at scale: component architecture, token systems, and delivery across web, iOS, and Android.
Judgment about where the system should be opinionated and where it should stay flexible.
Think in composition and primitives that combine, not a new component for every case.
Comfort with agentic tools while understanding code and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Architect the system: refine component anatomy, API and composition models, variant strategies, and token structures.
Make decisions that balance cross‑platform coherence and platform conventions.
Anticipate system needs before teams request them.
Define and refine the component lifecycle from proposal to retirement.
Close gaps between one-off requests and durable system additions.
Structure tokens, component metadata, and documentation for programmatic operation.