Senior Product Designer, Platform

New York, NY, Remote. Posted 9 days ago

The role

This person will own the Canopy design system and the shared Taproot platform. They will design reusable modules, components, and shared surfaces used by delivery teams.

What you will do

Own the Canopy Design System end to end including components, tokens, documentation and guidelines
Design every module and shared product surface in the Taproot platform
Work with project teams to decide what becomes a shared pattern and what stays a one-off
Set the platform design roadmap and processes for requesting, adopting and contributing to the system
Roll out system changes across live products
Pair with Platform engineers on feature build outs, docs and guidelines, and ship components
Make every delivery team faster as the system grows

Required qualifications

Deep UI craft at the component level
Experience evolving a design system across a growing suite of products
Experience rolling out changes without breaking live surfaces
Judgment to distinguish one-off requests from real patterns
Discipline to abstract only what earns it
Track record of driving adoption
Comfort owning a roadmap and working directly with engineers and delivery teams

Nice to have

Write front-end code
Have designed for platform at a fast moving startup
Keep a whole portfolio of products in view

Benefits

100% medical coverage through Oxford/United
100% dental coverage through Guardian PPO
100% vision coverage through Beam
100% coverage for dependents
$100,000 in fully paid life insurance
FSA and Dependent Care FSA
One Medical membership
Fertility and family-building support through Carrot
401(k) with a 2% company match
16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for birthing parents
10 weeks fully paid for non-birthing parents
Unlimited PTO with a two-week minimum

About the company

Kaizen powers America’s application layer by replacing legacy systems federal agencies run on with modern software. Founded in 2022 and based in New York City and DC, Kaizen has raised $35 million from NEA, a16z, Accel, 776, and Carpenter Capital.