A staff-level design systems role at Harvey, sitting at the intersection of design, frontend and platform engineering. The role owns the design system foundations - components, patterns and tokens - that keep the product coherent as it scales.
What you'll do
- Define and evolve core design system foundations, including components, patterns and tokens
- Design, prototype and ship production-ready system components with frontend engineering
- Partner with frontend and platform engineers on quality, performance and maintainability
- Establish contribution, governance and deprecation models balancing velocity with integrity
- Embed accessibility, responsiveness and performance into the system by default
- Document system usage and best practices trusted by product teams
- Advocate for system adoption and consistency in product planning, design reviews and execution
- Anticipate future product and platform needs, evolving the system proactively
What we're looking for
- 8+ years of product design experience with significant design systems ownership
- Excellent portfolio showing system-level thinking, component design and product impact
- Deep understanding of component architecture, design tokens and system scaling
- Proven experience partnering with frontend engineers to ship production systems
- Strong working knowledge of accessibility standards and inclusive design
- Ability to articulate system decisions and tradeoffs to cross-functional partners
- Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces and bringing structure
Nice to have
- Background in brand or visual design