Senior Staff Product Designer, Design Systems

🔥 2 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $150k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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Kong Inc.

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🔌 API

💰 $100M Series D on 2021-02

Consulting • Logistics • API

Kong Inc. is a company that provides a comprehensive API platform designed to facilitate API management, AI integration, and developer productivity. It offers solutions like Kong Gateway, Kong Konnect, and a variety of other tools targeted at managing and optimizing the API lifecycle. Kong's platform supports multi-cloud environments and is built to deliver high performance and security. It is notably recognized by Gartner as a leader in API management and supports innovations across industries like financial services, healthcare, and technology. The company emphasizes flexibility, security, and speed, making it a favored choice for enterprises looking to enhance their digital services through APIs. Kong also supports a robust community of developers and provides extensive integrations and plugins to streamline API management and operations.

📋 Description

• Define our visual language • Own the visual design direction of our design system • Sweat the details • Keep the system meticulously organized and documented • Build in accessibility from the start • Own the evolution of our design tokens, color themes, and foundational styling • Design and maintain page templates and layout patterns • Partner with our Design Technologist • Be accountable to the real, live product • Run office hours, be engaged in critiques • Write clear guidance and examples • Help designers navigate ambiguous situations • Mentor and coach designers across the team • Actively track down drift between the system and what's shipped

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of product design experience • Exceptional modern visual design craft • A detail-oriented, organized approach to systems work • Solid working knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) • A track record of enabling a team of designers • A bias toward the shipped product over the theoretical system • Comfort partnering directly with engineering on implementation tradeoffs • Strong communication skills • Comfort collaborating on AI-assisted prototyping and Figma ↔ code workflows is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Offers Equity • Offers Bonus