Pebl
Product Design Lead - Design Systems
Palo Alto, CA
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 12 days ago
ReactHTMLCSSGitFigmaDesign SystemsAccessibilityLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- Purpose in Every Position Pebl puts a world of talent at your fingertips.
- Backed by more than a decade of compliance leadership and local expertise, Pebl helps businesses move fast, stay compliant, and scale with confidence.
- With Pebl, companies everywhere can hire great talent anywhere.
Responsibilities
- the component library, the token architecture, the documentation, and the workflows that connect design to production.
- You'll shape the shared language that every product team works from, and influence how designers and engineers across the org build together.
- Own the architecture, strategy, and evolution of the design system - components, tokens, patterns, and documentation - across web and mobile surfaces
- Design and ship production-ready components with a high bar for craft: well-defined states, variants, interaction models, responsiveness, and accessibility baked in from the start
- Partner closely with frontend engineering to ensure system decisions translate cleanly into code - with shared ownership of quality, parity, and maintainability
- Create clear, opinionated documentation and usage guidance: best practices, anti-patterns, decision frameworks, and contribution standards that teams can act on immediately
- Build and maintain governance models that balance system integrity with the speed product teams need
- Lead the evaluation and integration of AI-powered design tooling - including Figma AI, MCP integrations, StoryBook MCP and generative workflows - into how the system is built and consumed
- 7+ years of product design experience, with at least 3 years owning or significantly contributing to a design system at a product company
- Extraordinary visual design taste - a rigorous, opinionated eye for typography, color, spacing, and interaction quality that raises the bar across every surface
Requirements
- Let's Connect If You Have:
- Strong understanding of front-end fundamentals (HTML, CSS, React or equivalent) and how design decisions translate into code
Skills
- Strong written communication skills - you write documentation that is clear, opinionated, and easy to act on
- Track record of leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing senior stakeholders on system strategy and investment
- Background building or contributing to open-source design systems
- Experience in enterprise SaaS, fintech, or other complex, data-dense product environments
- Parental Leave - Support for growing families.
- Retirement Savings + Employee Incentive Plan - Plan for the future while sharing our success.
- component architecture, variables, tokens, auto-layout, and the discipline to keep a shared library production-aligned
- Bonus Points
- Why This Role Matters
- It's what lets teams move faster without sacrificing quality.
- It's what keeps a product feeling coherent as complexity grows.
- Our Commitment to You
Benefits
- Conduct regular audits to identify inconsistencies, gaps, and opportunities to improve component coverage and design-to-code parity
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