Staff Product Designer - Design Systems - 100% Remote - EMEA

NOTE: This is a FULLY remote role, but the candidate must be within EMEA to collaborate with their team, peers, and internal customers. You do not have to be in the specific country or city shown in this listing, but please only apply if you are physically based within EMEA.

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About the role

As the owner of our design system, you will define the vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution of a system that serves as the backbone of our platform. You will partner closely with design and engineering to build components, patterns, documentation, and workflows that drive quality, consistency, and speed across the product.

This is a staff-level role with broad ownership and influence. You will be responsible for ensuring design system excellence across the organization, while also working on end-to-end product features. You will also play an important role in exploring and integrating AI tooling into our design workflows and design system practice to improve output, efficiency, and scalability over time.

What you’ll do

• Continue the development of our design system: Lead and own the strategy, roadmap and development for our design system, currently in Figma. Collaborate across teams to support implementation. Evolve of our design system by integrating AI-tooling (e.g. Claude Code), skills and agents to improve design output. Additionally, stay on the cutting edge of AI advancements, ensuring the system scales and adapts to future needs.

• Forge the Bridge Between Design and Engineering: Develop and implement new collaborative workflows to bring our design and front-end teams closer. You will define the strategy for the design team to contribute to the design system, currently in Figma, and, looking ahead, to production and future processes.

• Develop and Document: Design, build, and maintain a comprehensive library of reusable components using atomic design principles, patterns, and guidelines. Create clear, accessible documentation that will empower our teams to build efficiently and consistently.

• Drive Adoption and Consistency: Be the primary advocate for the new design system, providing the training and support necessary to embed it across the organization.

• Contribute to and own product features: Actively participate in the end-to-end product development lifecycle, applying your skills in user research, wireframing, prototyping, and high-fidelity design to deliver new features. In some cases supporting other designers and in other cases owning the feature end to end.

• Innovate and influence: Champion and pioneer the integration of AI into our design practice by researching and piloting new tools and methodologies. You will guide and inspire and mentor the team, fostering a culture of curiosity and systems thinking, and demonstrate the value of AI from initial research through to final production.