Senior Design Systems Designer - Hybrid Milpitas

Sandisk; Milpitas (CA); Hybrid; USD 121,400 - 206,400; Full time

Job summary

Sandisk seeks a Senior Digital Product Designer, Design Systems to scale design foundations across platforms. You’ll own tokens, component architecture, theming, accessibility, and implementation quality, partnering with Product, Engineering, Brand, and Design teams.

You will evolve the design system, contribute to broader product work, and ensure consistency, scalability, and developer-friendly solutions in a hybrid Milpitas, CA office.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in product design, with 2+ years in design systems.
• Strong interaction and visual design skills.
• Systems-thinking mindset.
• Cross-platform UX experience.
• Ability to balance consistency with product flexibility.
• Experience partnering with front-end engineers.
• Advanced Figma expertise, including libraries, variables, and design system management.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve design token architecture across color, typography, spacing, motion, elevation, iconography, and semantic foundations, with strategies that hold up across themes, platforms, and future needs.
• Design, document, test, and maintain reusable UI components and patterns that meet accessibility requirements and platform conventions.
• Work with product designers to turn emerging product needs into system solutions, balancing consistency against product constraints.
• Partner with Engineering to set implementation standards, align on component architecture and APIs, and hold quality through design QA and implementation reviews.
• Scale the system across mobile, tablet, and desktop with responsive, platform-appropriate behavior, plus flexible theming, localization, and internationalization.
• Spot system gaps and build solutions ahead of upcoming product work.
• Set governance, documentation, and adoption standards that keep the system consistent and maintainable over time.
• Educate and support designers and developers in the effective use of the design system.
• Champion consistency, scalability, and design excellence by promoting system-driven thinking across teams.
• Measure and continuously improve the design system's effectiveness, quality, and adoption.
• Contribute to broader product design work, including new feature flows, journey mapping, wireframing, and concepting to support user testing and product exploration.

Skills

Design systems

Design tokens

Figma

UI design

Interaction design

Accessibility

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Design

HCI / Interaction Design background

Tools

Figma

Design system libraries

Job description

Sandisk seeks a Senior Digital Product Designer, Design Systems to scale design foundations across platforms. You’ll own tokens, component architecture, theming, accessibility, and implementation quality, partnering with Product, Engineering, Brand, and Design teams.

You will evolve the design system, contribute to broader product work, and ensure consistency, scalability, and developer-friendly solutions in a hybrid Milpitas, CA office.