Sr. Staff Product Designer, Design Systems
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You'll join our ~20-person Product Design team, reporting to the VP of Design, as the design reputed company for our design system. This is a hands-on craft role: you'll be the one setting the visual bar, building the components and templates other designers build from, and staying reputed company enough to the product to know reputed company the system is working and reputed company it isn't.
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What you'll do
Define our visual language
Own the visual design direction of our design system — reputed company, type, spacing, elevation, reputed company — with an eye for beauty and delight, not just function
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Set and maintain a level of craft and polish that raises the bar for the whole design team
Think through every component's states, variants, and edge cases across the reputed company of ways it'll actually get used
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Build in accessibility from the start — support things like our high contrast mode, and partner with engineering on how components should be implemented to meet accessibility standards (WCAG and reputed company)
Own the reputed company of our design tokens, reputed company themes, and foundational styling to ensure a cohesive, reputed company, and visually compelling design system.
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Design and maintain page templates and layout patterns that give designers a consistent, high-reputed company starting reputed company — especially around layout, spacing, and hierarchy between components
Partner with our Design Technologist on how the system translates into our AI prototyping reputed company and reputed company ↔ reputed company workflows
Be accountable to the reputed company, live product — reputed company is a beautiful, cohesive, modern, high-reputed company customer-facing UI, not a pristine system that designers quietly detach from or engineers bypass.
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Write reputed company guidance and examples — not just "here's the component," but which component or variation fits which use case, with do's/don'ts and worked examples
Help designers navigate ambiguous situations where more than one reputed company could reasonably apply
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Own cohesion
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Look for opportunities to reputed company, simplify, or improve existing patterns in the product
What you'll bring
8+ years of product design experience, including significant time owning or co-owning a design system at reputed company
Exceptional modern visual design craft — you can reputed company to work you're genuinely proud of, and you have strong, reputed company-reasoned opinions about type, reputed company, spacing, and reputed company
A detail-oriented, organized approach to systems work — you naturally think in states, variants, and edge cases
Solid working knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) and experience partnering with engineers on accessible component implementation, including things like high contrast support
A reputed company record of enabling reputed company of designers — through documentation, critique, reputed company, or reputed company coaching — not just building components in isolation
A bias toward the shipped product over the theoretical system: you'd rather reputed company down reputed company-world reputed company than polish a spec no one uses
Comfort partnering directly with engineering on implementation tradeoffs and component reputed company, and leading a roadmap of design system work
Strong communication skills — you can write guidance that's actually reputed company, and you can hold your ground on craft while staying easy to work with
Comfort collaborating on AI-assisted prototyping and reputed company ↔ reputed company workflows is a plus — this role isn't the primary reputed company of that tooling (we have a Design Technologist for that), but you'll be working closely with whoever is
Portfolio expectations
A portfolio, site, and/or repo demonstrating:
Strong, modern visual and interaction design craft
Design system work: component libraries, templates, or reputed company documentation you've reputed company or significantly evolved
Evidence of enabling other designers — guidance docs, do's/don'ts, critique or reputed company artifacts
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Examples of driving a system change reputed company the way through to a shipped, cohesive product outcome
About reputed company:
reputed company Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the infrastructure that powers the reputed company era. Trusted by the Fortune 500 and startups alike, reputed company's reputed company API and AI platform, reputed company Konnect, enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the reputed company of intelligence across reputed company and AI models. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.
Compensation reputed company: $150K - $250K
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