Perplexity
Design Systems Lead
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 12 days ago
ReactGitFigmaDesign SystemsAccessibilityMentoring
About the role
- You'll set the bar for visual quality and the technical standards that let feature teams move fast without fragmenting the experience.
Responsibilities
- Bootstrap and own an intuitive semantic token system that works across multiple platforms and frameworks
- Own the design system repo on GitHub: the source of truth for components, tokens, and standards, including versioning, release management, and a clear changelog
- Set and uphold a high bar for visual design quality across every surface the system touches
- Keep design and engineering in sync, bridging Figma and code so the system stays coherent end-to-end
- Own clear, first-class documentation so teams can adopt components and tokens on their own, and drive adoption across the org through onboarding, office hours, and hands-on support
- Maintain a system roadmap, balancing net-new work, migrations, and deprecations against feature-team needs
- Bring new AI tooling into the design systems workflow and help shape how we build systems in an AI-native way
- Extensive experience owning design systems at large organizations
- A true 50/50 design-engineer, equally credible in visual craft and in code
- We're seeking a Design Systems Lead with extensive experience owning design systems at large organizations.
Requirements
- A track record of driving adoption through excellent documentation and cross-functional partnership
Nice to have
- Familiarity with component tooling and documentation platforms (e.g., Storybook)
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