Staff Product Designer - Design Systems

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Staff Product Designer - Design Systems in Italy.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced product designer to shape and scale a world-class design system within a fast-growing, AI-driven technology environment. In this role, you will lead the vision and evolution of a platform-wide design system that powers consistency, efficiency, and innovation across complex digital products. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, influence both strategic and operational decisions, and help bridge the gap between design and engineering. The position offers significant ownership, creative freedom, and the chance to pioneer AI-enhanced workflows that improve scalability and product quality. Working within a fully remote and globally distributed team, you’ll contribute to products used by thousands of businesses worldwide while mentoring others and driving design excellence across the organization.

• Lead the strategy, roadmap, and continuous evolution of the organization’s design system, ensuring scalability, usability, and consistency across products and teams.
• Design, build, and maintain reusable UI components, design patterns, documentation, and workflows using modern design system methodologies and atomic design principles.
• Collaborate closely with product designers, engineers, and stakeholders to establish efficient cross-functional workflows and improve the integration between design and front-end development.
• Drive adoption of the design system throughout the organization by providing guidance, training, and advocacy for consistent design practices.
• Contribute directly to end-to-end product feature development through research, wireframing, prototyping, and high-fidelity interface design.
• Explore, test, and implement AI-powered tools and workflows to enhance design efficiency, documentation, scalability, and collaboration practices.
• Influence product and design direction by promoting systems thinking, mentoring peers, and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in product design, including significant experience building, scaling, and maintaining enterprise-level design systems.
• Strong expertise in user-centered design, systems thinking, interaction design, and end-to-end product design processes.
• Proven leadership experience defining design system strategies and driving adoption across cross-functional product organizations.
• Solid understanding of front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React, with experience collaborating closely with engineering teams.
• Familiarity with component-based architectures and modern design tools such as Figma.
• Demonstrated curiosity and enthusiasm for AI technologies and their application within design systems and product workflows.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex design concepts and strategic value.
• Ability to thrive in remote, fast-paced, and evolving environments while balancing long-term vision with practical execution.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation aligned with local market rates.
• Valuable equity options within a high-growth and profitable company.
• 100% remote work flexibility across the EMEA region.
• Home office freedom with support for productive remote work environments.
• Professional growth and career advancement opportunities in a rapidly scaling organization.
• Annual paid leave aligned with country-specific norms and contracts.
• Country-specific healthcare, pension, and additional employment benefits where applicable.
• Access to a highly collaborative, international, and diverse remote-first culture spanning more than 40 countries.
• Opportunity to work on innovative AI-powered products and cutting-edge design initiatives.