Staff Product Designer, Design Systems Architect

Etsy; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Etsy is seeking a Staff Product Designer for Design Systems to lead the Collage system across web, iOS, Android, and Flutter. You’ll shape architecture, token libraries, and pattern libraries while guiding a senior team through complex problems at scale.

You’ll work openly, document decisions, and partner with engineering to ensure design decisions are implementable and accessible, driving adoption and quality across the marketplace.

Qualifications

• Portfolio showing design-systems work at scale.
• Ability to define patterns, tokens and component lifecycles.
• Strong typography, color, spacing fundamentals.
• Excellent storytelling and communication.

Responsibilities

• Architect Collage system across web, iOS, Android, Flutter.
• Define component anatomy, API, token structures and lifecycle.
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure implementability.
• Document decisions and share progress openly.

Skills

Design systems

Component architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

Typography & visual craft

Accessibility

Tools

Cursor

Claude

Job description

Etsy is seeking a Staff Product Designer for Design Systems to lead the Collage system across web, iOS, Android, and Flutter. You’ll shape architecture, token libraries, and pattern libraries while guiding a senior team through complex problems at scale.

You’ll work openly, document decisions, and partner with engineering to ensure design decisions are implementable and accessible, driving adoption and quality across the marketplace.