Product Manager, Design Systems

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 196,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Four days in-office

Comprehensive health benefits

Generous vacation policy

Parental leave

Wellness stipend

Job summary

Chime is hiring a Product Manager for the AI & App Experience (AAX) team, focusing on design systems. You’ll own strategy and execution for design-system capabilities, partnering with Design and Engineering to build cohesive app experiences. The role emphasizes cross-team alignment, data-driven prioritization, and exploring AI-enhanced design workflows.

You’ll drive adoption across multiple teams, define success metrics, and balance speed with durable foundations to elevate the member experience.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a Product Manager.
• Experience owning complex products, platforms, or internal systems from strategy through execution.
• Experience working on design systems, developer platforms, or horizontal capabilities.
• Ability to translate ambiguous problems into a clear strategy and measurable outcomes.
• Strong partnership with Product Design and Engineering and technical fluency.
• Proven track record adopting shared platforms across teams with influence.
• Data, research, and user feedback-driven prioritization to deliver value.
• Experience balancing near-term delivery with durable foundations.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for design-system capabilities within AAX.
• Collaborate with Design and Engineering to evolve components, patterns, tooling, and infrastructure.
• Identify opportunities to improve how teams discover, adopt, and contribute to the design system.
• Translate internal needs into priorities, requirements, and outcomes.
• Drive alignment across product areas for shared platform and team needs.
• Set success measures for adoption, effectiveness, and business impact.
• Explore how AI capabilities can improve design-system work where relevant.

Skills

Product strategy

Roadmapping

Cross-functional collaboration

Design systems

Stakeholder management

Data-driven prioritization

Technical fluency

Tools

Design system tooling

Analytics tools

Job description

About the role

We are hiring a Product Manager to join our AI & App Experience (AAX) team, with a focus on design systems. In this role, you’ll help shape the shared foundations that make it easier for teams across Chime to build consistent, intuitive, and high-quality member experiences.

You’ll own product strategy and execution for design-system capabilities that sit at the intersection of product, design, and engineering. You’ll work across teams to understand where fragmented patterns, tooling, and workflows create friction, then turn those insights into scalable systems that improve both the quality of our app experience and the speed at which teams can build it.

The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $196,000 and up to $255,000. Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits. The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.

In this role, you can expect to

• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for design-system capabilities within AAX, connecting platform investments to meaningful improvements in Chime’s member experience.
• Partner closely with Design and Engineering to evolve shared components, patterns, tooling, and infrastructure that enable teams to build cohesive app experiences more efficiently.
• Identify high-leverage opportunities to improve how product teams discover, adopt, and contribute to Chime’s design system, balancing consistency with the flexibility teams need to innovate.
• Develop a deep understanding of the needs of internal product builders and translate those needs into clear product priorities, requirements, and measurable outcomes.
• Drive alignment across multiple product areas, helping teams make thoughtful tradeoffs when shared platform needs, individual product needs, and longer-term experience quality intersect.
• Establish success measures for the design system, using quantitative and qualitative signals to understand adoption, developer and designer effectiveness, experience consistency, and business impact.
• Help define how emerging AI capabilities can improve the way Chime teams design, build, and maintain app experiences, where relevant to the design-system strategy.

To thrive in this role, you have

• 8+ years of experience as a Product Manager.
• Product management experience owning complex products, platforms, or internal systems from strategy through execution in a technology environment.
• Experience working on design systems, developer platforms, UI frameworks, shared product infrastructure, or similarly horizontal capabilities used by multiple teams.
• A track record of translating ambiguous, cross-functional problems into a clear product strategy, prioritized roadmap, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience partnering deeply with Product Design and Engineering, with enough technical and design fluency to navigate component architecture, platform constraints, user experience tradeoffs, and implementation decisions.
• Experience driving adoption of a shared product or platform across multiple teams, including identifying user pain points and influencing stakeholders without relying on direct authority.
• Evidence of using data, research, and customer or internal-user feedback to prioritize investments and assess whether a product or platform is delivering meaningful value.
• Experience operating in environments where quality, consistency, scale, and speed all matter, and where product decisions require balancing near‑term delivery with durable foundations.

A little about us

At Chime, we believe that everyone can achieve financial progress. We created Chime—a financial technology company, not a bank*—on the premise that core banking services should be helpful, easy, and free. Through our user-friendly tools and intuitive platforms, we empower our members to take control of their finances and work towards their goals. Whether it's starting a savings account, purchasing a first car or home, launching a business, or pursuing higher education, we're proud to have helped millions unlock their financial potential.

We're a team of problem solvers, dreamers, and builders with one shared obsession: our members. From day one, Chimers have worked tirelessly to out-hustle and out-execute competitors to bring our mission to life. Their grit and determination inspire us to work harder every day to deliver the very best experience possible. We each bring an owner's mindset to our work, refusing to be outdone and holding ourselves accountable to meet and exceed the highest bars for our teams, our company, and our members.

We believe in being bold, dreaming big, and taking risks, while also working together, embracing our diverse perspectives, and giving each other honest feedback. Our culture remains deeply entrepreneurial, encouraging every Chimer to see themselves as stewards of our mission to help everyday Americans unlock their financial progress.

We know that to achieve our mission, we must earn and keep people's trust—so we hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity in everything we do. These aren't just words on a wall—our values are embedded in every aspect of our business, serving as a north star that guides us as we work to help millions achieve their financial potential.

Because if we don't—who will?

*Chime is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by The Bancorp Bank, N.A. or Stride Bank, N.A., Members FDIC.

What we offer for our full-time, regular employees

• Our in-office work policy is designed to keep you connected - with four days a week in the office and Fridays from home for those near one of our offices, plus team and company-wide events depending on location. Whether you’re coming in regularly or are part of our fully remote program, you’ll stay engaged with your work and teammates.
• Benefits that support your work and life, including backup child, elder, and pet care and subsidized commuter benefits for eligible employees.
• Comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits designed to support you at every stage of life.
• Generous vacation policy and company-wide paid days off
• 1% of your time off to support local community organizations of your choice
• Annual wellness stipend to use towards eligible wellness related expenses
• Up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
• Access to family planning reimbursement
• A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most experienced teams in FinTech and help millions unlock financial progress

We know that great work can’t be done without a diverse team and inclusive environment. That’s why we specifically look for individuals of varying strengths, skills, backgrounds, and ideas to join our team. We believe this gives us a competitive advantage to better serve our members and helps us all grow as Chimers and individuals.

Chime is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis under provincial, federal, state, and local laws, regulations, or ordinances. We will also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Cook County Ordinance, NYC Fair Chance Act, and the LA City Fair Chance Ordinance, and consistent with Canadian provincial and federal laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during any stage of the application process, please contact: [e-mail].

To learn more about how Chime collects and uses your personal information during the application process, please see the Chime Applicant Privacy Notice.