Principal Designer: AI-Driven Design System Leader

Urban Ridge Supplies; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity

Ownership of design system

Product impact on financial services

Job summary

Avantos AI is seeking a Principal Designer to own the design system end-to-end for an AI-native platform serving financial services. You will lead craft on the Agent Portal, setting the bar for design across the product surface and raising the standard for the design organization.

This is a senior individual-contributor role focused on craft and system quality. Design here moves fast: prototyping in code, building AI tooling, and continuously re-evaluating workflows as capabilities land.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in product design with craft leadership beyond individual projects.
• Experience authoring design systems, tenets, or patterns used by teams.
• Mastery of Figma and evolving design systems as living patterns.

Responsibilities

• Own the design system end-to-end: library, tokens, patterns, contribution rubric.
• Set craft direction across the team through shared patterns and tenets.
• Lead design on the Agent Portal and ensure the system ships first and is tested in real product work.
• Evolve design tenets with Head of Design and codify design meaning at Avantos.
• Mentor designers through critique and rationale-driven thinking.
• Represent design in cross-functional conversations requiring senior craft judgment.

Skills

Design systems

Figma

AI tooling

Product design

B2B SaaS

Cross-functional leadership

Code prototyping

Craft mentorship

Tools

Figma

Prototyping in code

Job description

Avantos AI is seeking a Principal Designer to own the design system end-to-end for an AI-native platform serving financial services. You will lead craft on the Agent Portal, setting the bar for design across the product surface and raising the standard for the design organization.

This is a senior individual-contributor role focused on craft and system quality. Design here moves fast: prototyping in code, building AI tooling, and continuously re-evaluating workflows as capabilities land.