Staff Product Designer, Design Systems – Foundations

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve ZUI, Zipline's design system, including component architecture, design tokens, accessibility standards, documentation, and implementation quality. Partner closely with engineering to ensure the system evolves alongside our product and technical architecture.
• Establish shared interaction patterns, mental models, and design principles that create consistency across the product. Translate learnings from product work into reusable systems, frameworks, and foundations that can scale across teams.
• Build the documentation, guidance, and decision-making frameworks that help designers, engineers, and PMs work independently and consistently. Drive adoption of the design system and product foundations across the organization.
• Contribute to complex product initiatives, influence long-term product direction, and help define how emerging technologies, including AI, are incorporated into our design practice and workflows.

Requirements

• Experience leading or significantly contributing to a design system at scale
• Strong systems thinking across interaction design, workflows, information architecture, and visual design
• Proven ability to drive alignment and adoption across cross‑functional teams
• Excellent visual and interaction design craft
• Strong partnership with engineering and understanding of implementation constraints
• Comfort working in ambiguity and shaping long‑term product foundations
• Interest in exploring how AI can improve design workflows and product development
• Nice to Have
• Experience designing for frontline, retail, or operational workflows
• Experience in a platform, systems, or other cross-cutting design role
• Familiarity with modern design system governance and documentation practices
• Experience creating structured design context that can be leveraged by AI tools