Avantos

Principal Designer

New York City · Principal

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 38 days ago

FigmaDesign SystemsLeadershipMentoring

About the role

This is a senior individual-contributor craft role, not a people-management one.
What we hold constant is what we value: judgment, taste, and a system that keeps quality high as the team and product scale.

Own the Avantos design system end-to-end: component library, design tokens, pattern language, and the contribution rubric that keeps it coherent as the team grows
Set craft direction across the design team through the system, so the bar lives in shared patterns and tenets rather than in one person's head
Lead design on the Agent Portal, our most-trafficked surface and the place where the system ships first and gets pressure-tested in real product work
Author and evolve our design tenets, partnering with the Head of Design to codify what design means at Avantos
Develop the designers around you through critique, mentorship, and modeling rationale-driven thinking
Represent design in cross-functional product and client conversations where senior craft judgment is needed
8+ years of product design experience, with craft leadership that reaches beyond your own projects
Deep expertise in product design fundamentals: interaction, information architecture, visual craft, and the systems thinking that turns a component library into a governing design system
A track record of authoring design systems, tenets, or patterns that other designers adopted and built on
Mastery of Figma and the judgment to evolve a design system as a living set of patterns, not a frozen kit

Comfort operating as a senior IC and craft anchor without needing a manager title
financial services experience is welcome but not required

Familiarity with thinkers like Bret Victor, Lou Downe, or Bob Baxley, and a point of view on how craft and systems intersect

This listing is sourced directly from Avantos's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.