Senior Design Systems Architect — Remote FinTech UI

Design Better Podcast; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Full benefits

Remote-first team

Top colleagues

Strong investors

Job summary

Ondo Finance is seeking a Senior Product Designer to own the design systems behind our institutional and consumer products. You will ship components and tokens in Figma, partner with engineers, and set the direction for scalable, accessible design.

You will ensure WCAG AA compliance, define motion and visual language, and build governance and documentation that scales. This is a hands-on role for a systems thinker who thrives with autonomy in a remote-first, US-wide team.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in product design, including 3+ years focused on design systems.
• Experience building and scaling a shared design system across multiple products and platforms, web and mobile.
• Strong UI craft with a point of view on motion and visual expression.
• Builds scalable components and design tokens, including theming.
• Understanding of how components translate into front-end libraries and code.
• Advanced Figma skills: variables, auto layout, library management.

Responsibilities

• Own two design systems end to end: institutional and consumer, across web and mobile.
• Define the expressive layer: visual language and motion principles.
• Design and ship full design-system stack from primitives to templates with polished details.
• Partner with UI engineers so tokens map to production libraries.
• Define mobile system parity and platform-specific interactions.
• Ensure WCAG 2.2 AA compliance baked into components.
• Write clear usage guidelines and governance documents.
• Run governance across teams: contribution models and adoption tracking.
• Audit for gaps and drift and drive fixes proactively.
• Leverage AI tooling to connect the design system to workflows.

Skills

Design systems

Figma

UI craft

Collaboration with engineers

Accessibility WCAG AA

Design-to-code tooling

Systems thinking

Tools

Code Connect

Storybook

React / React Native

Swift/Kotlin components

MCP integrations

Job description

Ondo Finance is seeking a Senior Product Designer to own the design systems behind our institutional and consumer products. You will ship components and tokens in Figma, partner with engineers, and set the direction for scalable, accessible design.

You will ensure WCAG AA compliance, define motion and visual language, and build governance and documentation that scales. This is a hands-on role for a systems thinker who thrives with autonomy in a remote-first, US-wide team.