Lead Product Designer, Design Systems (Contract Talent)

United States
Freelance
Remote Within Region
Posted 3 weeks ago

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Who We Are

[REDACTED], one of [REDACTED]’s World’s Most Admired Companies and a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For is hiring for a Lead Product Designer, Design Systems (Contract Talent) to join the Experience Design department. Join us in creating digital experiences that connect businesses with exceptional talent and empower job seekers throughout their career journey.

We’re looking for a systems-minded designer with deep experience contributing to and evolving enterprise design systems, and a passion for scaling design across platforms while ensuring consistent, accessible, and globally inclusive experiences.

You bring order to complexity by transforming product needs into scalable frameworks, reusable components, patterns, and guidance that enable consistency and efficiency at scale . In this role, you’ll help lead strategic design system initiatives that improve quality and accessibility, measure and drive adoption, and continuously evolve the system based on user, business, and engineering needs.

What You'll Do

Translate product and experience needs into scalable design system solutions by evolving reusable components, patterns, foundations, and guidance.

Partner closely with engineering to evolve the design system, ensuring solutions are scalable, technically aligned, accessible, globally inclusive, and easy for teams to adopt and implement.

Evaluate product designs to identify opportunities for standardization, determining when solutions should become reusable system assets versus remain product-specific.

Build strong partnerships with UX, Product, Engineering, Marketing, Brand, and other cross-functional partners to understand their needs and improve the overall design system experience.

Lead strategic design system initiatives and contribute to roadmap planning by identifying opportunities that improve the long-term…

Recommended Skills for this Position

Design Systems
Systems Thinking
Accessibility Design
Inclusive Design
UI Design Patterns
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Designer-Developer Handoff
Design Metrics and KPIs
Stakeholder Communication and Influence
Iterative Design

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