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Principal Product Designer, Design Systems

United States, California, Mountain View💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-17 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, document, and evolve core components and patterns of the design system while driving adoption with engineering partners and shaping workflows for designers and PMs.

Role type

Principal Product Designer (Design Systems)

Builds

Vibe Kit (design system), Vibe Studio (design workflows), and AI-enabled design tooling.

Domain

AI UX engineering, enterprise design systems, data-dense tooling

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Design systems architecture (components, tokens, documentation), AI tooling creation, React development, engineering partnership, systems-level design, design thinking, standards definition, quality auditing, AI-assisted prototyping

Preferred skills

Experience with Fluent or similar large enterprise design systems, background in advertising/B2B/data-dense domains, ability to prototype in code

Technologies

React, AI-assisted coding tools

Responsibilities

Design and evolve core design system components and patterns; Drive adoption and migration of the design system with engineering partners; Contribute to Vibe Kit and expand its adoption to PM and engineering; Shape Vibe Studio workflows for prototyping and testing; Partner with AI UX engineering to make the system machine-readable; Audit usage and critique output to close the gap between spec and shipped; Create standards and documentation as first-class deliverables

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship

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