Lyft

Senior Illustrator, Design Foundations & AI Transformation

Lyft$138K — $172K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of professional illustration experience, preferably in product or brand contexts.
  • Expertise in Figma, ensuring seamless design execution.
  • Experience in developing and maintaining illustration systems or visual language at scale.
  • Ability to collaborate with engineering teams for effective asset handoffs from design to code.
  • Familiarity with motion design or a strong desire to learn it, including tools like After Effects.
  • Strong project management skills to juggle multiple workloads effectively.
  • Excellent communication skills for stakeholder reviews and feedback.

Responsibilities

  • Create illustrations for various product surfaces including Rider, Driver, and Marketing.
  • Lead brand migration efforts to update existing illustrations across products.
  • Manage and maintain illustration libraries in Figma, including organization and documentation.
  • Develop motion design strategies for illustrated assets to enhance visual identity.
  • Coordinate the illustration request process with a contractor and prioritize tasks collaboratively.
  • Collaborate with engineers to integrate illustrations into the codebase efficiently.
  • Extend the illustration system across marketing and content teams for broader application.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance with additional options available.
  • Support for mental health and well-being.
  • Benefits for family planning and childcare.
  • 401(k) plan with company matching for retirement savings.
  • Flexible paid time off options, including 18 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Subsidized commuter benefits for commuting ease.
  • Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership.
  • Remote work flexibility for up to 4 weeks per year.
Full Job Description
Lyft is looking for a Senior Illustrator to join Design Foundations, the infrastructure layer of Lyft's design organization. Illustration at Lyft is an integral part of the overall user experience. Our illustration system spans product surfaces, marketing, and brand, distributed through the Lyft Product Language (LPL) design system and shipped directly to code. You'll own the craft and execution of that system, partner closely with design, engineering, and marketing, and lead illustration work through a period of active brand migration and capability expansion. This role reports to the Design Systems Manager and works alongside a contract illustrator, a dedicated DPM, and a tight-knit team of design systems practitioners. Responsibilities: • Execute illustration work across product surfaces: Rider, Driver, Marketing with a high craft bar and deep understanding of our system and style • Lead ongoing brand migration work: moving existing illustrations into the updated style across multiple product verticals • Own and maintain Lyft's illustration libraries in Figma - including organization, naming, publishing, and code handoff via LPL • Develop motion design capabilities for illustrated assets; this is an emerging need and a real opportunity to define how Lyft's visual identity moves • Manage the illustration intake process: triage requests, run office hours, set priorities alongside the DPM and manager • Partner with (contract illustrator) on assignments - package work clearly, review output, and maintain quality and consistency across execution • Collaborate with engineers to ship illustrations through LPL - SVGs to code, PRs reviewed, library updates published • Work with Marketing, Brand, and Content teams to extend the illustration system beyond product surfaces • Contribute to documentation, onboarding materials, and illustration guidelines so the system is legible to everyone who depends on it Experience: • 4+ years of professional illustration experience, ideally in a product or brand context • Strong Figma skills, you work natively in Figma • Demonstrated experience building or maintaining an illustration system, component library, or visual language at scale • Comfort working directly with engineering: you understand how assets move from Figma to code and can own that handoff without hand-holding • Motion or animation experience, or a genuine appetite to develop it. After Effects, Lottie, or equivalent • Ability to manage a varied workload: migration work, net-new requests, and system maintenance all at once • Clear communicator: you can run a stakeholder review, give useful feedback to a contractor, and write a brief that someone can execute from • Familiarity with design systems, or similar component-based systems a plus Benefits: • Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled • Mental health benefits • Family building benefits • Child care and pet benefits • 401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future • In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off • 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible • Subsidized commuter benefits • Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule - Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid The expected base pay range for this position in the New York City or San Francisco area is $138,000 - $172,500, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.

About Lyft

Lyft is a transportation network company that was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company operates a mobile app that allows users to request rides from nearby drivers. Lyft provides ride-hailing services in the United States and Canada, and it has expanded into other transportation services, such as bike-sharing and scooter-sharing. The company is known for its pink mustache logo, which was replaced by a glowing dashboard mustache in 2015. Lyft went public in March 2019.
Learn more about Lyft
Size
4,453 employees
Market Cap
$3.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$1.7 billion
Founded
2012
5 Year Trend
+56.4%
Revenue
$2.3 billion
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