Lead Product Designer, Design Systems

The role

You will lead strategy and execution for the design system behind HighLevel's product experience. The system is used by product teams across the company and by the developer community. You will treat the system as a product with its own customers, roadmap and success measures.

What you will do

• Lead strategy and execution for one or more areas of the design system
• Define and evolve visual foundations: tokens, theming, color, typography, spacing, iconography and motion
• Design and refine components and patterns, including states, variants, responsive behavior and failure states
• Create primitives, templates and starter kits that help teams build quickly with AI tools
• Encode visual, interaction, content and accessibility rules as documentation and guidance for AI coding tools
• Partner with front-end engineers on token architecture, component APIs and implementation fidelity
• Shape contribution, versioning, deprecation and governance models for the system
• Guide product teams onto the system and feed what you learn back into it
• Set standards for usability, accessibility, interaction quality and visual consistency, and mentor designers
• Drive innovation by staying ahead of emerging trends in design and technology

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant product design experience, including building or leading a multi-team design system
• Exceptionally strong portfolio with at least one system-level case study covering your role, architecture, governance and measurable impact
• Advanced visual and interaction design craft
• Expert command of Figma libraries, variables, modes, component properties and token pipelines
• Deep fluency in HTML, CSS and component frameworks such as React or Vue
• Hands-on experience vibe coding prototypes with AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor
• Deep knowledge of WCAG and hands-on experience designing and testing accessible components
• A clear point of view on how design systems should support AI-assisted development
• Experience designing AI-driven or intelligent interfaces
• Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills, including leading critiques and workshops

Nice to have

• Experience designing B2B SaaS, platform, CRM, workflow-heavy or SMB software experiences

Before you apply

• Applications without a portfolio that includes design system work will not be considered

About the company

HighLevel is an AI-powered business operating system that gives agencies, entrepreneurs and SMBs the infrastructure to build, automate and scale. It operates as a global, remote-first organization with over 2,000 team members across 10+ countries.