Principal Product Designer, Design Systems at Pluralsight, owning Pando, the shared design language. Sets architectural direction for component and token systems used by every designer and engineer, and drives governance, roadmap and cross-team partnership.
What you'll do
- Define component architecture and compositional philosophy across the system
- Lead review of component work to elevate quality and brand consistency org-wide
- Design token architecture across primitive, semantic and component layers
- Identify and remediate structural token debt
- Build documentation and governance infrastructure that scales independently
- Use adoption data to close gaps before they surface as requests
- Partner with engineering to build tooling and shared working norms
- Scale accessibility as a structural default across themes and components
- Partner with the Accessibility Specialist on org-level accessibility investment
- Own and articulate the system's roadmap
- Define how the system's effectiveness is measured
- Maintain a data-backed business case influencing prioritisation and resourcing
What we're looking for
- 10+ years of product design experience, substantial focus on design systems
- Track record defining component and token architecture for an entire system at a B2B SaaS company
- Experience designing, governing and scaling an enterprise-scale design system
- Working knowledge of front-end implementation (HTML/CSS, Code Connect or equivalent)
- Track record defining and communicating a design system roadmap and metrics
- Experience establishing accessibility as infrastructure, with WCAG expertise
- Comfort using AI to streamline workflow
- Proven ability to build a data-backed business case that changed prioritisation or staffing
Good to know
- Remote role, with on-site expectation Tuesday to Thursday for those within 45 miles of Westlake/Dallas, TX office
- Remote flexibility on Mondays and Fridays for local employees
- University degree or equivalent experience typical for this level