Impact
As a Senior Product Designer, Design Systems at Shipt, you will help shape and evolve the design foundations that power experiences across our entire product ecosystem. Reporting to the Director of Design Systems, you will lead the design of scalable components, interaction patterns, design foundations, and documentation that enable product teams to deliver consistent, accessible, and high-quality experiences.

This role requires a systems mindset, exceptional design craft, and the ability to influence across multiple teams. You'll partner closely with Product Design, Engineering, Accessibility, Research, and Product leaders to solve complex design challenges at scale while continuously improving how designers and engineers build products together.

You'll also play a key role in exploring and adopting emerging AI-powered tools and workflows that improve design quality, increase efficiency, and enable the next generation of design system capabilities.

What You'll Need to Be Successful

Key Responsibilities:
Design Systems Leadership

Lead the design and evolution of reusable components, patterns, design foundations, and interaction standards that scale across multiple products and platforms. Balance consistency with flexibility to enable product innovation while maintaining a cohesive user experience.

Systems Thinking & Design Excellence

Solve complex, ambiguous design problems by identifying patterns across products and translating them into scalable system solutions. Develop thoughtful component behaviors, APIs, interaction models, accessibility requirements, and implementation guidance.

Cross-Functional Partnership

Partner closely with Product Designers, Design System Engineers, Front-End Engineers, Product Managers, and Accessibility experts to ensure component quality, adoption, and seamless implementation across the organization.

AI Innovation & Design Operations

Actively experiment with emerging AI-powered design tools and workflows to improve component creation, documentation, governance, quality assurance, and team productivity. Identify opportunities where AI can responsibly accelerate design workflows while maintaining high standards of quality, accessibility, and usability.

Governance & Continuous Improvement

Help establish contribution models, governance processes, documentation standards, and review practices that ensure the long-term health and scalability of the Design System. Measure adoption and continuously improve the system based on user feedback and organizational needs.

Collaboration & Influence

Build trusted relationships across Design, Product, and Engineering organizations. Advocate for scalable design solutions and influence product teams to leverage the Design System while balancing business needs and user outcomes.

Mentorship & Knowledge Sharing

Mentor designers across the organization in systems thinking, accessibility, component design, and modern design workflows. Share best practices and foster a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and design excellence.

Core Design Competencies:
Systems Thinking

Recognizes patterns across products and translates them into scalable, reusable design solutions that improve consistency and efficiency.

Design Process

Leverages research, experimentation, accessibility, and iterative design methods to create high-quality components and system patterns that solve broad organizational needs.

Design Judgment

Makes thoughtful trade-offs between consistency, flexibility, usability, technical feasibility, and business priorities while maintaining a high bar for craft.

AI Curiosity & Innovation

Continuously explores emerging AI technologies and design workflows, thoughtfully integrating new capabilities that improve designer productivity, system quality, and organizational effectiveness.

Business Acumen

Understands how Design Systems drive business value by improving product quality, accelerating delivery, reducing design and engineering effort, and enabling scalable growth.

About You
Shipt Values:

Drive: Proactively push forward, overcoming obstacles and seeing tasks through to completion.

Rally: Collaborate effectively, playing to team strengths and focusing on high-priority work.

Positivity: Maintain an optimistic energy that uplifts the team and embraces challenges.

Authenticity:Bring your whole self to work, fostering an inclusive environment that values transparency and diverse perspectives.

Caring: Stay attuned to others, tailoring your approach and speaking up for the team's well-being.

Required Skills & Experience:
Design Competencies

Expertise in Design Systems, Component Design, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Visual Design, Design Foundations, Design Tokens, Accessibility, User Frameworks & Psychology, Systems Thinking, Prototyping, Documentation, and Cross-Platform Design.

AI & Emerging Technologies

Demonstrated fluency with the latest generative AI tools and evolving design technologies. Actively evaluates and integrates AI into design system workflows, component creation, documentation, prototyping, design-to-code workflows, and team productivity. Brings curiosity, experimentation, and a continuous learning mindset to help shape the future of design at Shipt.

Technical Collaboration

Strong understanding of modern front-end development principles, component libraries, design tokens, responsive design, and developer handoff processes. Experience partnering closely with engineering teams throughout implementation.

Tools

Advanced proficiency in Figma (Variables, Component Properties, Auto Layout, Libraries, Dev Mode) is required.

Years of Experience

4+ years of Product Design experience with demonstrated expertise in Design Systems, platform design, or highly scalable product experiences.

Additional Expectations:
Ego

None. You work with humility, value feedback, and prioritize the success of the Design System and product teams over individual ownership.

Organizational Influence

You are recognized as a trusted design partner who elevates design quality across teams through collaboration, mentorship, and thoughtful decision-making.

Mentorship

Coach designers on systems thinking, accessibility, component design, AI-assisted workflows, and best practices. Help grow design maturity across the organization.

Recruiting & Hiring

Participate in recruiting efforts, portfolio reviews, and interviews. Help identify exceptional talent while raising the bar for design craft, systems thinking, collaboration, and innovation.

Why Join Shipt?

Join Shipt's Design Systems team and help shape the foundation that powers every product experience we build. You'll influence how hundreds of designers and engineers create products, champion accessibility and design quality at scale, and help define how AI transforms the future of product design. If you're passionate about systems thinking, design craft, and building tools that multiply the impact of others, we'd love to have you on our team.

Pay Range: $134,000 - $190,000

Please note that the salary range above is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location.

Skills & Education

This list includes key skills used in this job but is not inclusive of all skills needed for the role. Please see any required education below.

Core Design, Design, Design Systems, Product Design, System Designs

Work Arrangement

To foster connection while offering continued flexibility, hybrid team members have the following in-office expectations:

Hybrid roles in Birmingham, AL typically work in-office at least 2 days per week, with core in-office days on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Hybrid roles in Minneapolis, MN typically work in-office at least 1 day per week on either Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.

Hybrid roles in San Francisco, CA typically work in-office at least 1 day per week between Monday and Thursday.

Certain roles may require in-office presence on a full-time basis. Please work with your recruiter to learn more about the classification of this role.