Senior Product Designer

Optomi; United States; Remote; USD 82,656 - 86,788; Full time

Job summary

A global digital media company is seeking a Senior Product Designer to create and maintain a design system. This remote role emphasizes collaboration with designers, engineers, and brand teams, ensuring consistency in design. Strong skills in visual design, typography, and Figma are essential, along with experience in documentation. The successful candidate will take ownership of design guidelines, contributing to high-quality design experiences.

Qualifications

• Senior-level product designer with strong skills in visual design, typography, and design systems.
• Proven experience building or contributing to design systems and documentation.
• Excellent communication and storytelling abilities.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain design documentation for color, typography, components, and usage guides.
• Work closely with brand designers, illustrators, and product designers.
• Develop examples and demos that clearly show how design principles should be applied.

Skills

Visual design

Typography

Design systems

Figma

Webflow

Communication

Tools

Figma

Webflow

Job description

Senior Product Designer

Optomi, in partnership with a global digital media company, is looking for a Senior Product Designer to join the product design team. This remote role operates on West Coast hours and is centered around creating a design system that keeps products and teams aligned.

Base pay range: $60.00/hr - $63.00/hr

What the right candidate will enjoy

• Working closely with designers, engineers, and brand teams to create clear, consistent design experiences.
• Taking ownership of design documentation systems from the ground up.
• Creating design guidelines that are practical and easy to follow.
• Collaborating with a team that focuses on quality and consistency.

Experience of the right candidate

• A senior‑level product designer with strong skills in visual design, typography, and design systems.
• Proven experience building or contributing to design systems and documentation.
• Advanced knowledge of Figma as the primary design tool.
• Experience using Webflow to build and host documentation sites.
• Excellent communication and storytelling abilities that bring design guidelines to life.
• A portfolio that highlights both strong product design work and well‑crafted documentation examples.

Nice to have

• Background in motion design, illustration, or brand expression.
• Understanding of front‑end design translation for engineers.
• Experience in tech, enterprise, or media environments is a plus but not required.

Responsibilities of the right candidate

• Create and maintain design documentation for color, typography, components, and usage guides.
• Work closely with brand designers, illustrators, product designers, and design system engineers.
• Keep product design aligned with brand identity and overall direction.
• Develop examples and demos that clearly show how design principles should be applied.
• Collaborate with Accessibility and Content teams to ensure consistency and inclusivity.
• Build scalable documentation systems that make guidelines easy to use and understand.