Hiring: Senior or Staff Product Designer, Design Systems Company: Harvey Location: New York, United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 14:50:30 Target Skills & Keywords : API Design, Accessibility, Design System About the job Experience: •5+ years (Senior) / 8+ years (Staff) of product design experience, with significant ownership of design systems in complex product environments Required Skills: •This role will report to the Design org, and will be based in SF, NYC, or Toronto. •Build an AI-native design system that sets the bar for design quality for Design, Engineering, and Product through technical direction and collaboration •Design, prototype, and ship production-ready system components in tight collaboration with frontend and platform engineering, with shared ownership of quality, performance, and maintainability •Define and evolve the core design system foundations (components, patterns, and tokens) that scale across complex, AI-powered experiences •Push both the architecture and the implementation of the system: shape component APIs, token structure, theming, and composition patterns alongside engineering, not downstream of it •Advocate for technical approaches with confidence, especially in new or ambiguous territory where established patterns don't yet exist •Embed accessibility, responsiveness, and performance into the system by default •Establish clear contribution, governance, and deprecation models that balance velocity with system integrity Qualifications: •A design portfolio that demonstrates high design craft in system-level thinking, but a strong point of view on quality, and visual cohesion •Deep design systems expertise, including an understanding of the history and evolution of the discipline. You know why the field moved from style guides to tokens to composable architectures, and you have a point of view on what comes next •Excellent design engineering communication: you articulate system decisions and tradeoffs fluently to designers, engineers, and cross-functional partners •Demonstrated capacity to clearly articulate system decisions and tradeoffs to designers, engineers, and cross-functional partners •Strong knowledge of scalable system architecture and component implementation: component API design, design tokens, theming strategies, and how systems hold up across teams and codebases •Design Engineer experience preferred, but not required in an AI-first world where the boundary between design and engineering is shifting •High ownership: you treat the system as a product, not a ticket queue •Strong opinions, loosely held, being comfortable challenging conventions and evolving best practices as the discipline changes •Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces and bringing structure where it doesn't yet exist •Why design systems matter at Harvey Compensation: •$205,760 - $315,000 / year 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!