Verkada

Verkada

Lead Product Designer - Design Systems

San Mateo, CA United States · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$185k-$230kDetected 19 hours ago
Agentic AIFigmaDesign SystemsMotion DesignAccessibilityValuation

About the role

  • The Why: Verkada's product suite is expanding rapidly.
  • You will bridge the gap between our UX designers and our frontend engineering teams, ensuring that our hardware-software interface remains cohesive, accessible, and polished.

Responsibilities

  • Architecture: Define and maintain the core Figma component library, tokens, and documentation.
  • Scale: Create scalable systems that work across responsive web, mobile, and specialized hardware interfaces/touch devices.
  • Advocacy: Act as a bridge between Design and Engineering to ensure pixel-perfect implementation and technical feasibility.
  • Product Design: Build, test interactive components and prototypes. Pinch hit as needed on cross-product experiences.
  • We need a Lead Designer to own the "source of truth" for our digital language.
  • Define and maintain the core Figma component library, tokens, and documentation.
  • Act as a bridge between Design and Engineering to ensure pixel-perfect implementation and technical feasibility.
  • You can create bespoke assets that give a brand personality.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in Product Design, with 4+ years dedicated specifically to Design Systems
  • Expert-level Figma proficiency (Auto-layout, Variables, Prototyping).
  • Experience coordinating between Figma and Storybook or similar tool
  • Ability to speak expertly about every layer: interaction, visual, motion, writing, etc.
  • Deep understanding of frontend development technologies and accessibility (WCAG) standards.
  • A portfolio demonstrating polished visual design and a systemic way of thinking.
  • Technical/UX writing: excellent sensibility in naming things (e.g. components) in a system context

Nice to have

  • Healthy lunches provided daily
  • Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
  • As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals.

Compensation

  • Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options

Benefits

  • Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs
  • Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
  • Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
  • Expanded mental health support
  • Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
  • Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
  • Professional development stipend
  • Wellness/fitness benefits
  • Commuter benefits
  • US Employee Benefits
  • Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources.

Company info

  • Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.
  • We've got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.
  • You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform's impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that's alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We're rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries.
  • We've got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more.
  • Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.
  • You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform's impact in the world.
  • It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens.
  • The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE.
  • The school that's alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes.
  • We're rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries.
  • more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more.
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