Role Overview

  • Own and evolve Replits design system end-to-end, including components, patterns, principles, and governance.
  • Collaborate with product designers, engineers, and design engineers for system scalability and enterprise adoption.
  • Define system evolution, decision-making processes, and balance consistency with flexibility.

Responsibilities

  • Lead vision, strategy, and roadmap for the design system.
  • Define and evolve core components, patterns, tokens, and interaction standards.
  • Support diverse surfaces from core UI to enterprise templates and customer-integrated systems.
  • Partner with product designers and engineers to build new features on system primitives.
  • Design for extensibility including custom stacks and customer-specific theming.
  • Improve discoverability, clarity, and usability of system-driven UI.
  • Collaborate with design engineers on implementation details and system architecture.
  • Influence code-level decisions affecting system consistency and adoption.
  • Shape tooling, Storybook usage, and contribution workflows.
  • Establish contribution models, review processes, and decision frameworks for system changes.
  • Provide guidance and sign-off on system-level decisions as domain owner.
  • Document principles, patterns, and rationale for scalable decision making.
  • Identify inconsistencies and drive systematic improvements across the product.
  • Balance speed and craft, advocating for system-level thinking across teams.

Experience and Skills

  • 10+ years of product design experience with deep ownership of a design system at scale.
  • Strong systems thinker understanding patterns, abstractions, and long-term impacts.
  • Experience collaborating closely with engineers on component APIs and implementation details.
  • Ability to operate at multiple levels from high-level principles to pixel-level decisions.
  • Proven track record evolving complex component libraries and supporting multiple product variations.
  • Strong opinions on system governance, contribution models, and adoption strategies.
  • Highly collaborative and influential without hierarchy.
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and making pragmatic decisions.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with developer-focused products or tools.
  • Familiarity with design tokens, theming, and cross-platform systems.
  • Background in or strong partnership with design engineering.
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