Senior Design Systems Architect

The Intersect Group; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Intersect Group is seeking a Senior Product Designer, Design Systems to shape scalable, reusable design patterns across a suite of products. You will define standards, governance, and documentation, partnering with design, product, and engineering to ensure design intent is realized in implementation.

You will lead system strategy, component libraries, and accessibility considerations, mentoring teams toward consistent, high-quality experiences across platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product design with design system or platform initiatives.
• Portfolio demonstrating design system contributions and scalable solutions.
• Experience creating design system standards across multiple teams.
• Ability to translate concepts into structured specifications, documentation, and design tokens.
• Strong collaboration with engineering, product, and lifecycle processes.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve design system standards, patterns, and components.
• Create design specifications, documentation, usage guidelines, and interaction standards.
• Design workflows and interactions for edge cases, errors, and accessibility.
• Prototype and validate complex interactions with engineers; ensure implementation aligns with design intent.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration and governance for design system adoption.

Skills

Design Systems

Systems Thinking

Cross-functional Collaboration

Prototyping

Accessibility

UX Design

Stakeholder Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Design, HCI, CS

Tools

Design Tokens

System Architecture

Job description

The Intersect Group is seeking a Senior Product Designer, Design Systems to shape scalable, reusable design patterns across a suite of products. You will define standards, governance, and documentation, partnering with design, product, and engineering to ensure design intent is realized in implementation.

You will lead system strategy, component libraries, and accessibility considerations, mentoring teams toward consistent, high-quality experiences across platforms.