Product Designer - Design Systems (Contract)

About the role

This is a 6-month contract engagement (3-month minimum) reporting to the Manager of Product Design. You'll partner closely with our Staff Product Designer as the primary architectural counterpart for DS work across iOS, Android, and React. Day-to-day execution and prioritization within initiative scope is self-managed — Design Leadership sets direction at the initiative level; you own the work from there.

Responsibilities

• Take architectural ownership of DS work across iOS, Android, and React — make decisions, document tradeoffs, and maintain a visible, current view of the backlog in Jira without needing prompting.
• Build and ship production-quality Figma components for iOS (UIKit/SwiftUI) and Android (Material Design 3) with genuine platform fidelity — behavioral accuracy, not just visual resemblance.
• Own the React token pipeline end-to-end: Style Dictionary configuration, Storybook documentation, and engineering handoff quality.
• Drive cross-platform consistency audits — identify gaps, resolve conflicts across platforms, and document shared conventions that outlast the engagement.
• Partner directly with iOS, Android, and React engineering leads to validate that Figma components map correctly to production implementations — surfacing discrepancies before they ship, not after.
• Define component documentation standards and write usage guidelines that engineers and designers can apply without additional walkthroughs.
• Identify systemic issues proactively — missing states, undocumented edge cases, token inconsistencies — and bring recommendations rather than flags.
• Contribute to product design work — screens, flows, and feature UX — as DS work matures (expect this to begin in earnest by months 2–3).

Requirements

• You've built native iOS components with genuine UIKit/SwiftUI behavioral fidelity — not just visual resemblance to iOS patterns — and you can walk through the platform-specific decisions in your portfolio without notes.
• You've built Android components that are genuinely distinct from your iOS equivalents, reflecting Material Design 3 conventions, and you can discuss the Compose vs. View-based component model with an Android engineer.
• You've owned a React token pipeline end-to-end — architecture, Style Dictionary configuration, and the tradeoffs you made — and you can explain every decision and what you'd do differently.
• You've written Storybook documentation, not just referenced it, and you have examples of component docs that others have used without needing a walkthrough from you.
• You've held engineering leads accountable to design fidelity — you can describe a specific time you surfaced a design-to-code discrepancy before it shipped and what you did about it.
• You've managed your own DS backlog with minimal direction. You didn't wait to be told what mattered — you identified systemic issues, prioritized them, and communicated status proactively.
• You have product design work in your portfolio alongside DS artifacts — screens, flows, or features — and your approach reflects platform-appropriate judgment, not just execution of a brief.

Skills

• 7+ years of experience; IC-4 platform depth across iOS, Android, and React is the bar.

Benefits

• Compensation: $105/hour Up to 40 hours/week
• 6-month contract strongly preferred (3-month minimum).
• Conversion to full-time is possible for contractors who perform at a high level across both DS and product design work over the engagement.

Pay

$105/hour

Schedule

Up to 40 hours/week

Qualifications

• Compensation: $105/hour Up to 40 hours/week
• 6-month contract strongly preferred (3-month minimum).
• Conversion to full-time is possible for contractors who perform at a high level across both DS and product design work over the engagement.