Product Designer, Design Systems

San Francisco, Remote. Posted 4 months ago

The role

A seasoned designer will improve design and engineering workflows by building an agent-first design system. You will own design quality, semantics, and product usefulness across iOS, Android, and web surfaces.

What you will do

Improve Design and Engineering workflows
Set the quality bar for components and patterns
Manage the semantic layer including component naming and usage rules
Drive adoption of the design system across the design organization
Own usage documentation and quality check workflows
Build and evolve components to address high-leverage gaps
Establish agent-first systems and workflows
Set the operating cadence with design and engineering

Required qualifications

6+ years in product design
Experience with design systems built on tokens, component APIs, and a single source of truth in code
Experience helping build a design system including components, patterns, tokens, governance, and adoption
Systems thinker
Ability to defend design taste regarding spacing, motion, and interaction states
Clear communication and cross-functional drive
Autonomy and end-to-end ownership
Fluency with AI in your craft
Accessibility and scale mindset

Nice to have

Comfort building or changing components in code (Swift/SwiftUI, Kotlin/Jetpack Compose, or web)
Shipped consumer-scale mobile products across many markets/locales
Built a design system engineers actually used
A point of view on where design-to-code and agent workflows are heading
Experience in language learning, education, or another domain where cross-cultural nuance shapes the product

Benefits

Opportunity to join a growing team at a magical time
Work with people you admire and respect
Global nature with opportunities to talk to users in different regions
Opportunity to travel

About the company

Speak is an AI company building a human-level, AI-powered language tutor. The company has a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.