Hiring: Lead Product Designer - Design Foundations, Interstate Company: Cox Automotive Inc. Location: Atlanta, GA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 11:14:58 Target Skills & Keywords : Accessibility, CSS, Change Management, Design System, Figma, HTML, React, WCAG About the job Experience: •Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 6 years' experience in a related field; or a different combination, such as a master's degree and 4 years' experience; a Ph.D. and 1 years' experience in a related field; or 10 years' experience in a related field. •6 years' experience in a related field; or a different combination, such as a master's degree and 4 years' experience; a Ph.D. and 1 years' experience in a related field; or 10 years' experience in a related field. Required Skills: •Own and evolve Interstate: guidelines, tokens, components, reusable patterns, and the structural decisions that keep the system coherent as it grows across teams and products. •Set design direction for new, ambiguous features where none exists yet, and tie that direction to product and customer value. •Set the quality bar for design execution, accessibility, and usability that every other team inherits. •Create interaction and visual patterns that work across product areas and user types, and know when to push beyond the system to solve a novel problem while maintaining consistency. •Define the rules of the road for Interstate: contribution, versioning, and deprecation models that let the system evolve quickly without fragmenting, so teams know how to propose, adopt, and retire patterns. •Shape the design side of Interstate's AI tooling: make the system machine-readable, define how agents compose UIs from its components correctly, and direct the output of design and prototyping tools. •Spot the opportunity no one assigned you. Talk to product managers, designers, and engineers, find where the system falls short, take the initiative to fix it, communicate the change across the org, and measure whether it landed. •Grow the design judgment of other designers through critique, pairing, and clear standards, so good decisions hold up when you are not in the room. Qualifications: •A systems thinker. You understand the layer beneath the screens: token architecture, components and their states, patterns other people adopted, a contribution or governance model. You can explain why a pattern exists, when to break it, and how one decision cascades across products. •Obsessed with craft and quality in visuals and interactions. You sweat the border radius, the focus ring, the token name, the state nobody thought to design. You believe a design system's job is to raise the floor for quality everywhere. •Biased toward shipping. You know when to polish and when to ship. You use every tool at your disposal to move fast without sacrificing the quality your teammates depend on. •A clear communicator and teacher. Systems work is advocacy, documentation, and helping others succeed. You can make the case to designers and engineers alike, and you can teach the reasoning behind your taste so it outlives any single decision. •Fluent with AI-assisted design. You already work with AI tooling and agent-based workflows, and you have a point of view on what a design system owes them: what agents need from components, tokens, and documentation to compose UIs correctly. •Accessible by default. You have a strong grasp of WCAG and hands-on experience designing and testing for assistive technologies. •Outcome driven. You connect design decisions to outcomes and can show whether a change moved something. •Leading or contributing to a widely adopted or open-source design system, including the ongoing stewardship: change management, support, office hours, and reviews. •Depth with Figma variables, theming, and token pipelines such as Style Dictionary, and how design connects to code. •Have created AI tooling for design: agents, MCP, context, and prompt-based workflows. Compensation: •$111,500 - $185,900 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!