This role owns the connection between the design system and production code at Step, ensuring they evolve together. It sits between Product Design and Engineering leadership, working across Figma, code, and AI-powered workflows to evolve the design platform and speed up idea-to-production flow.
What you'll do
- Own the connection between design system and production code
- Build and maintain reusable components, design tokens, and shared foundations across iOS, Android, and Web
- Translate high-fidelity designs into production-quality components with exceptional visual accuracy
- Collaborate with engineering to create scalable, flexible, performant, accessible component architecture
- Improve design-to-code workflow through better tooling, automation, documentation, and developer experience
- Develop systems that let designers and engineers move faster while maintaining quality
- Improve governance around component APIs, tokens, naming conventions, versioning, and adoption
- Review implementations and identify opportunities to raise product quality
- Explore and build AI-powered workflows for designing, building, documenting, and maintaining products
- Help shape the future of product development at the company
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of experience in design engineering or related field
- Significant experience building and evolving design systems for consumer software
- Strong frontend engineering experience building reusable component libraries and design infrastructure
- Deep understanding of design tokens, component architecture, accessibility, documentation, and best practices
- Strong understanding of Figma and how design teams build and maintain systems
- Systems thinker who improves the entire product development workflow
- Exceptional eye for visual detail and passion for polished interfaces
- Enjoys collaborating equally with designers and engineers, speaking both languages
- Excellent communication skills and ability to influence technical and product decisions
- Curiosity about AI and emerging design tools
- Experience shipping high-quality mobile or web applications
- Portfolio demonstrating technical execution and design systems thinking
Nice to have
- Experience with React Native or cross-platform component libraries
- Experience building token pipelines or design system tooling
- Experience with Storybook or similar documentation platforms
- Experience building Figma plugins or internal developer tools
- Experience using AI to improve design workflows or build tooling
Good to know
- Remote (US) or San Mateo, CA, with occasional travel for offsites and key meetings
- Reports to Head of Design
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
