Lead Product Designer (Design Systems)

TL;DR

Lead Product Designer (Design Systems): Shaping, evolving, and scaling the organization’s design system across products, teams, and platforms with an accent on reusable components, patterns, guidelines, frameworks, and AI-enabled workflows. Focus on identifying systemic gaps, improving adoption, reducing design debt, and integrating AI to accelerate documentation, QA, and decision-making.

Location: Boston, MA or Remote

Salary: $127,600 - $159,500 USD

Company

hirify.global helps business owners, entrepreneurs, non-profits, and individuals grow online with marketing tools and services.

What you will do

• Drive strategic evolution of the design system by defining high-impact components, patterns, best practices, templates, and trainings.
• Ensure coherence across experiences through user-centered designs, prototypes, workflows, and quality standards.
• Shape problem spaces, connect design to strategy and customer needs, identify gaps, and recommend success metrics.
• Influence senior leaders and stakeholders on UI/UX initiatives, aligning teams around shared direction.
• Mentor designers, engineers, and peers on user-centric thinking and system best practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years in Product Design, UX Design, Interaction Design, or Design Systems, with experience leading or contributing to a design system.
• Proven strategic depth in shaping design system strategy across initiatives for SaaS platforms.
• Strong portfolio showing mastery in design process, visual craft, systemic thinking, and component architecture.
• Technical fluency in software development, front-end capabilities, accessibility standards, and cross-platform consistency.
• Exceptional communication to articulate concepts and trade-offs to cross-functional teams and leadership.
• Experience in ambiguous environments, mentorship, and AI tools for design iteration and documentation.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model combining remote flexibility with in-office collaboration, trainings, and socializing.
• Culture of diversity, inclusion, and continuous improvement with educational programs.
• Generous paid time off, competitive health and welfare benefits supporting well-being.
• Opportunities for career growth, stretch assignments, coaching, and professional development.