Kin Insurance

Kin Insurance

Principal Product Designer, Design Systems

Remote (United States) · Principal · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 27 days ago
AngularRailsRESTNLPFigmaDesign SystemsAccessibilityCustomer SupportTest AutomationAPI TestingAR/VRLeadership

About the role

  • Kin's long-term vision is to become the most trusted platform for homeownership -- a connected ecosystem of insurance, financing, home intelligence, and services that feels like one product, not a collection of handoffs.
  • The Principal Product Designer role exists to make that possible.
  • In the past six months, Kin has launched auto insurance, flood insurance, property tax protests, home financing, and more.

Responsibilities

  • Own and drive Kin's token architecture across color, typography, spacing, and motion, structured as primitive, semantic, and component tokens, as the single source of truth for design and code.
  • Establish and maintain Figma-to-code parity, partnering with engineering on the pipeline from design tokens to implemented, documented components.
  • Define the contribution model and governance - versioning, changelogs, intake, and quality bars - and implement automated guardrails that let teams extend the system without fragmentation.
  • Build the single source of truth that replaces disparate tools as the canonical reference for Kin's design patterns.
  • Partner across Product, Engineering, and embedded domain designers to make the system the easiest path to a cohesive, on-brand experience across every surface.
  • AI and people can both generate Kin-consistent visual design from one source of truth, with the token layer as its foundation.
  • Engineering and design are aligned on a shared token structure, with a clear rollout approach for updating shared components without breaking downstream consumers.
  • New product surfaces launching at Kin inherit consistency by default, rather than requiring design rework to bring them into compliance.
  • A track record of taking a design system from audit through architecture to adoption - you treat the system as a product, not a deliverable.
  • Familiarity with the design-to-code toolchain - Storybook/Chromatic, a token transformer like Style Dictionary, and how tokens land in a real front-end stack (Angular, Rails, etc.).

Requirements

  • Please only apply if you are able to live and work full-time in one of the states listed above.
  • Applicants must be able to live and work full-time in Ontario to be considered.

Nice to have

  • Experience in insurance, fintech, or other complex, regulated, high-consideration product domains.
  • Comfort reading or contributing to component code.

Compensation

  • This role is eligible to earn additional compensation annually through participation in our Kin Leadership Incentive Plan

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and company equity through Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), granted as part of our standard compensation package and based on role and level

Company info

  • Kin makes life simpler, more affordable, and better for homeowners - especially in the places where climate risks, rising costs, and outdated systems make it harder. We start with smarter homeowners insurance and expand to everything homeowners need to thrive.
  • Using data, technology, and thoughtful human support, we're building products that are clear, fair, and help homeowners feel confident - so homeowners aren't left behind when they need help most.
  • Founded in 2016, Kin is a remote-first employer with Kinfolk across more than 35 states. We serve customers in 14 states (and counting). Our disciplined growth, strong customer satisfaction, and focus on long-term sustainability fosters outstanding growth, attracts marquee investors, and earns recognition and accolades, including:
  • Built In Chicago's Best Places to Work, Midsize Companies (2021-2026)
  • Kin makes life simpler, more affordable, and better for homeowners - especially in the places where climate risks, rising costs, and outdated systems make it harder.
  • We start with smarter homeowners insurance and expand to everything homeowners need to thrive.
  • Founded in 2016, Kin is a remote-first employer with Kinfolk across more than 35 states.
  • We serve customers in 14 states (and counting).
  • Our disciplined growth, strong customer satisfaction, and focus on long-term sustainability fosters outstanding growth, attracts marquee investors, and earns recognition and accolades, including:
  • Forbes' America's Best Startup Employers (2026)
  • Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies
  • Forbes' Fintech 50 (2023-2026)
  • Great Places to Work Certified (May 2024-May 2027)
  • Most importantly, we're building Kin to be a place where people do meaningful work with real impact - for our customers, our communities, and each other.
  • We're excited to tell you more about how you can contribute to our rapid growth, strong unit economics, profitability, and excellent customer ratings.
  • To learn more about how we work and what we're building, visit kin.com http://kin.com and see how we work https://www.linkedin.com/company/kin-insurance/life/kin/.
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