Principal Product Designer - Design Systems

The role

You will lead the design of design foundations across mobile and web. You will set craft standards, shape technical architecture with engineers, and treat the design system as a product for designers and engineers.

What you will do

• Set, own and advance design foundations across mobile and web
• Set the standard for craft through principles, guidance and worked examples
• Shape technical architecture and system structure alongside engineers
• Treat the system as a product with real customers
• Provide a clear point of view on which patterns to use
• Turn field conditions into system standards for legibility and clarity
• Promote successful product surface patterns into documented, reusable foundations
• Raise designer craft through feedback, reviews and mentorship
• Champion the system across product, engineering and design leadership

Required qualifications

• 8+ years designing digital products
• Significant time spent designing and building design systems at scale
• Exceptional visual craft and command of typography, layout, spacing, colour, accessibility, interaction and motion design
• Proven experience shipping a design system with engineers
• Knowledge of how tokens and component libraries are structured in code
• Experience building and maintaining the Figma to code connection
• A portfolio showing foundational systems work and high-craft experiences
• Ability to make judgment explicit, teachable and useful
• Track record of coaching other designers and raising quality
• Presence to build alignment and defend an opinionated decision

Benefits

• Remuneration package including salary, benefits and an employee stock ownership plan
• Southern Cross Health Insurance
• Annual $1000 self-development budget
• 6 months fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• 4 weeks fully paid secondary caregiver leave
• Parental benefits
• Wellness leave
• Unlimited paid annual leave

Before you apply

• Relocation and visa assistance is provided

About the company

Halter enables farmers and graziers to run productive and sustainable operations using solar-powered collars and software. The company is backed by Tier 1 investors including Founders Fund and Blackbird.