Mable is looking for a Principal Product Designer to own and evolve its multi-brand design system across HomeMade and Mable. The role sits within the Customer Experience team, working closely with product designers and engineering teams. It also connects the design system to AI tooling used across design and development.
What you'll do
- Own and evolve the multi-brand design system across HomeMade and Mable
- Design and maintain design tokens, components and patterns across brands and platforms
- Establish and evolve how the design system connects to AI tooling like Claude and Claude Code
- Audit current component usage across both products and drive consolidation
- Write documentation and usage guidelines for designers and engineers
- Partner with engineers to keep design and code in sync and quality checked
- Set and uphold governance for the design system
- Lead the Design System Guild, a cross-functional group of designers and engineers
- Champion accessibility as a baseline to WCAG 2.2 AA standards
- Advocate for the design system's value across the organisation
- Continuously improve the system based on feedback and usage data
What we're looking for
- 8+ years as a product designer
- 4-5+ years owning or heavily shaping a design system
- Portfolio showing systems thinking and reusable components across products
- Advanced Figma skills including component libraries, variants, variables and tokens
- Experience with a multi-brand or multi-product design system
- Practical experience using AI tools like Claude in a design workflow
- Strong collaboration skills with engineering to ship components
- Solid understanding of accessibility standards and practical application
- Clear written communication for documenting decisions and guidelines
- Demonstrated experience operating with high autonomy and setting direction
Good to know
- Most designers work partly from Sydney or Melbourne offices and partly from home
- Remote candidates from other Australian locations will be considered