NewDesign Systems Lead
Apply on PeblPebl is hiring a Design Systems Lead in Palo Alto, CA. The role owns and evolves the design system end-to-end — including the component library, token architecture, documentation, and workflows — and partners closely with engineering and product to scale the system across web and mobile. The lead will design and ship production-ready components, create documentation and governance, conduct audits, and evaluate and integrate AI-powered design tooling.
AI skillsThis role asks for AI & agentic skills, exactly what we teach at Into Design SystemsWhat you'll do
- Own the architecture, strategy, and evolution of the design system: components, tokens, patterns, and documentation across web and mobile
- Design and ship production-ready components with well-defined states, variants, interaction models, responsiveness, and accessibility included from the start
- Partner closely with frontend engineering to ensure system decisions translate cleanly into code, sharing ownership of quality, parity, and maintainability
- Create clear, opinionated documentation and usage guidance, including best practices, anti-patterns, decision frameworks, and contribution standards
- Build and maintain governance models that balance system integrity with product teams' speed
- Conduct regular audits to identify inconsistencies, gaps, and opportunities to improve component coverage and design-to-code parity
- Lead the evaluation and integration of AI-powered design tooling, including Figma AI, MCP integrations, Storybook MCP, and generative workflows
- Anticipate shifts in the product, platform, and tooling landscape and evolve the system proactively towards an agentic workflow
What they're looking for
- 7+ years of product design experience, with at least 3 years owning or significantly contributing to a design system at a product company
- An outstanding portfolio demonstrating systems-level thinking, component craft, and real impact at scale
- Extraordinary visual design taste with a rigorous, opinionated eye for typography, color, spacing, and interaction quality
- Expert-level Figma skills including component architecture, variables, tokens, auto-layout, and discipline to keep a shared library production-aligned
- Comfort working across the design-to-code workflow: design tokens, Storybook, and GitHub, collaborating closely with engineers
- Strong understanding of front-end fundamentals (HTML, CSS, React or equivalent) and how design decisions translate into code
- Knowledge of accessibility standards and a commitment to inclusive design baked into every component by default
- Strong written communication skills
Learn the skills this role asks for
Into Design Systems is the conference on Claude Code and Figma MCP and design system automation, taught by the teams who run them in production.
Am I a fit for this role?
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