Lead Product Designer - Design Systems
Apply on RocketRocket is hiring a Lead Product Designer, Design Systems in Michigan to define, evolve and scale the design system behind its product ecosystem. The role is a senior individual contributor and design leader position focused on the foundational components, patterns and guidelines that let product teams move faster while raising the bar for craft, consistency and brand integrity, in partnership with product, engineering, brand and system leadership.
AI skillsThis role asks for AI & agentic skills, exactly what we teach at Into Design SystemsWhat you'll do
- Lead the evolution of the company's design system, creating a shared set of elements that are flexible across web and mobile platforms
- Design and maintain scalable components, tokens, patterns and system documentation
- Partner with engineering to deliver high-quality, performant libraries, tooling and documentation
- Champion accessibility, inclusivity and localization within the design system
- Advocate for high-quality design craft by raising visual and interaction standards across the organization
- Enable and educate product teams through documentation, workshops, critiques and hands-on collaboration
- Partner with product, engineering, brand and marketing teams to encourage adoption and alignment
- Mentor designers and promote systems thinking as a core design capability
- Continuously identify gaps, inconsistencies and opportunities to improve the system as products evolve
What they're looking for
- 7+ years of experience in product, visual or systems design, including significant ownership of design systems
- Deep expertise building and scaling design systems in complex, multi-product environments
- Strong systems thinking: seeing patterns, anticipating edge cases and designing for scale
- Hands-on experience designing and maintaining component libraries in tools like Figma and Storybook
- Experience with the latest design system features, tooling and benchmarks, including emerging AI-assisted design and development workflows such as MCP, Code Connect, Figma Make and v0
- Strong understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design principles
- Experience collaborating closely with engineering to deliver production-ready components
- Ability to translate complex system requirements into clear, usable patterns and documentation
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate system decisions and influence adoption
- Familiarity with front-end technologies and constraints such as CSS, component-based frameworks like React or Angular, and design tokens
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