Product Design Lead - Design Systems

Purpose

Pebl puts a world of talent at your fingertips. With our AI-powered Global Work Platform™, companies can hire, pay, and manage employees in 185+ countries—removing risk, red tape, and guesswork from global growth. Backed by more than a decade of compliance leadership and local expertise, Pebl helps businesses move fast, stay compliant, and scale with confidence. With Pebl, companies everywhere can hire great talent anywhere.

About the role

Joining Pebl means more than filling a role—you’re accountable for results and impact. Our values guide how we operate, execute, and collaborate across borders. By putting them into action, you’ll help us scale faster, compete harder, and lead the future of global work.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve our design system end-to-end: the component library, the token architecture, the documentation, and the workflows that connect design to production.
• Work in close partnership with engineering and product to ensure the system scales across web and mobile surfaces — and that it stays useful, adoptable, and ahead of the curve as our product and tooling landscape evolves.
• Shape the shared language that every product team works from, and influence how designers and engineers across the org build together.

Requirements

• 7+ years of product design experience, with at least 3 years owning or significantly contributing to a design system at a product company.
• An outstanding portfolio demonstrating systems-level thinking, component craft, and real impact at scale.
• Expert-level Figma skills: component architecture, variables, tokens, auto-layout, and the discipline to keep a shared library production-aligned.
• Strong understanding of front-end fundamentals (HTML, CSS, React or equivalent) and how design decisions translate into code.
• A strong understanding of accessibility standards and a commitment to inclusive design baked into every component by default.
• Strong written communication skills — you write documentation that is clear, opinionated, and easy to act on.
• A track record of leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing senior stakeholders on system strategy and investment.

Qualifications

• Experience integrating AI tools into design and development workflows — AI-assisted prototyping, automated component generation, design-to-code pipelines.
• Familiarity with design-to-code automation tools and AI-driven product development workflows.
• Background building or contributing to open-source design systems.

Skills

• Systems-level thinking
• Component craft
• Real impact at scale
• Expert-level Figma skills
• Front-end fundamentals
• Accessibility standards
• Strong written communication skills
• Leading cross-functional initiatives
• Integrating AI tools into design and development workflows
• Design-to-code automation tools
• Open-source design systems

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off
• Parental Leave
• Health and Dental Insurance
• Retirement Savings + Employee Incentive Plan

Pay

$190K - $220K

Schedule

Full-time