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Product Design Lead, Design Systems

Raydar🏢 Hybrid·UK
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A global workforce software company unifying HR, payroll, IT and finance on one platform, with more than 40 products and a publicly announced $450M Series G round, is hiring on its design systems team of roughly 18 dedicated engineers. They seek a Staff/Principal-level individual contributor to define platform-wide design systems, set vision and strategy, identify problems and drive initiatives through hands-on design and AI-assisted code prototyping. Remote work is available in the US, Canada and UK; candidates near the New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto or London offices are expected onsite three days a week, with New York preferred followed by Toronto and US East Coast remote. The advertised base salary range is $200,000-$280,000 USD.

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What you'll do

  • Set vision and strategy, identify problems and drive initiatives through hands-on design and AI-assisted code prototyping
  • Build scalable UX patterns and repeatable flows across a dense, multi-product platform, including mobile experiences
  • Develop systems that define and measure design quality and automatically check product work against standards
  • Build AI prototyping tools and code-based checks of implementation quality
  • Own broad initiatives from strategy and research through hands-on prototyping and delivery
  • Partner with engineers, product managers and designers to raise craft and evolve the design language

What they're looking for

  • Typically eight or more years in product design or design systems, with Staff, Principal or Lead-level ownership
  • Experience building scalable interaction patterns and UX frameworks beyond component or token libraries
  • Hands-on use of AI-assisted coding and prototyping tools, such as Codex, Cursor and Claude Code
  • Strong visual, interaction and user experience craft, including accessibility expertise
  • Systems experience in complex B2B platforms, horizontal architectures or developer tooling
  • Ability to identify problems independently, set direction and work directly with engineering
  • Strong mobile or consumer design experience is a plus
  • A purely technical background must still demonstrate excellent visual craft

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