Principal Product Designer, Design Systems

About the role

Bring multi-product, cohesive experiences to life and make them the most trusted among homeowners. Principal level. 7+ years required.

Who We Are

Founded in 2016, Kin is a remote-first employer serving customers in 14 states. We are recognized for our strong unit economics, profitability, and customer satisfaction, and are committed to building a place where people do meaningful work with real impact.

Responsibilities

• Audit existing component libraries and live product experiences to map gaps, drift, and inconsistencies and generate a data-backed plan to unify and streamline the system.
• Own and drive Kin's token architecture, 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.
• Advocate for accessibility in components, using automated testing and AI-assisted audits to proactively identify compliance gaps.
• Partner across Product, Engineering, and embedded domain designers to make the system the easiest path to a cohesive, on-brand experience across every surface.

Qualifications

• A track record of taking a design system from audit through architecture to adoption.
• Significant visual and product design experience, commonly 7+ years, with a meaningful stretch focused specifically on design systems work.
• Deep fluency in token architecture (primitive / semantic / component) and mastery of Figma as a systems tool.
• Proven ability to leverage AI tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) to accelerate manual tasks, automate documentation, and speed up the design-to-code feedback loop.
• The ability to influence without authority, setting direction and bringing partners along across a federated org without relying on positional power.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and 0-to-1 spaces, where the structure doesn't exist yet and you're the one building it.

Benefits

Comprehensive, competitive benefits program including a variety of supplemental benefits, professional development budgets, and more. Remote-first company with offices in Chicago, IL and St. Petersburg, FL.

Pay

Competitive salary and company equity through RSUs, granted as part of the standard compensation package and based on role and level. Eligible for annual Kin Leadership Incentive Plan.

Schedule

Full-time remote position, with flexibility to work in any of the specified states.