Senior Product Designer (Design Systems)
Company: Thumbtack
Location: San Francisco, California, United States {{REMOTE}}
Salary: $163.2k - $248.6k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-05-23
About this role
- We’re a tight-knit team of product designers, researchers, and content designers working closely with engineers and product managers to research, explore, and iterate on well-crafted user experiences that are innovative, engaging, and delightful
- We collaborate regularly through design critiques, work sessions, and presentations to inspire and influence the direction of the product and company as a whole
- This is a dedicated systems design role focused on the experience layer of our design system
- You’ll define how our system, Thumbprint, translates into real product experiences, owning the patterns, flows, component compositions, and documentation that enable every team to design and ship with consistency at scale
- You’ll work on a small team to evolve Thumbprint into a machine-readable, production-aligned system that accelerates product development from idea to prototype to shipped experience
- The focus of this role is craft and usability: interaction quality, platform-native patterns, and the guidance that helps humans and agents apply our system across our various product experiences
- Own the patterns, flows, and component compositions that power product experiences across iOS, Android, and web, ensuring consistency and quality at every layer
- Design and ship reusable components with a high bar for craft, including well-defined states, variants, responsiveness, and interaction models
- Define and maintain platform-native interaction patterns that make our product feel cohesive and intentional across surfaces
- Evolve Thumbprint over time to keep pace with modern UI patterns, platform conventions, and the changing needs of our product
- Create clear, opinionated documentation and usage guidance, including best practices, anti-patterns, and decision frameworks teams can act on
- Enable teams to adopt and extend the design system through onboarding, critique, and hands-on partnership
- Collaborate with technical partners to ensure Thumbprint works within A...