Senior Product Designer II - Design Systems - Remote US

POS-8126

About the team

Our customers love using HubSpot because it’s a crafted product experience that’s easy to use. Our Design System makes up the building blocks of everything we use to build it. Our current system supports a growing organization of over 2,400 product managers, UXers, and engineers. It comprises over 350 coded components represented in Figma, over 300 product illustrations, comprehensive design and engineering documentation, and a lightweight service process. This team owns developing and evolving this system based on the changing needs of our customers. We are shaping the future of our design system that will enable our HubSpot products to be more consistent, and customer-centric with a focus on high-quality and driving customer and business value. We are a multi-disciplinary team of people with diverse backgrounds who like to talk about design thinking and push the boundaries of what is possible. 

 

About this Role

We’re looking for a systems-minded, product-focused designer to work on our Design System elements, components, patterns, and guidelines. In this role, you’ll:

• Continuously explore design language elements that can be modernized, including typography, color, iconography, data visualization, motion, and sound

• Collaborate with other teams to help them translate the new design language into a modernized component library in both Figma and React code

• Design concepts and flows for themes that provide direction for the product experience and the design system

• Lead component and pattern related projects that drive cohesion across our product

• Design scalable, usable, accessible, and high-quality components, and patterns

• Create and maintain clear, consumable documentation and guidance in Figma and on our website

• Work with designers across the organization to understand use cases and requirements

• Conduct user testing and apply customer insights into intentional, meaningful, iterative design improvements with researchers

• Help maintain figma libraries as this is a shared responsibility across the entire team

• Prioritize and align on projects that are most essential and critical to the outcomes we aim to achieve as a team

• Partner closely with engineering to weigh tradeoffs, make decisions, and ensure quality implementation

• Communicate clearly for diverse audiences and colleagues to create connections and foster shared understanding, accountability, and goals

• Stay curious and in the mode of constantly learning which includes proactive skills development and growth opportunities

 

What types of problems will you work on?

• Our products support a wide variety of use cases across different types of customers (Marketing, Sales, Service, Ops, etc). We need to design components that account for flexibility but remain opinionated. A key challenge will be boiling down complexity into simple ideas with consumable guidance.
  
  
• We are committed to our foundational components adhering to our accessibility standards. There are multiple big areas to address here starting with color contrast.
  
  
• This team needs to have strong opinions, loosely held. They need to make hard decisions and thoughtful tradeoffs quickly, visibly, and with rigor. Finding the right model for governance, collaboration, and contribution will ensure adoption and adherence to the system.
  
  
• Our products will be going through a transformation and require a high quality bar for consistency and implementation of new design language elements. This team is responsible for ensuring that this can happen across all the entire HubSpot platform. 

 

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has a portfolio of work that highlights complex design challenges that were solved with strategic UX, interaction, and strong visual design skills
  
  
• Has very strong visual and interaction design skills. You have examples of going deep into the details of UI decisions for things like color, grids, patterns, accessibility, or usability. You understand which modern UI trends add value and which are just a fad.
  
  
• Thinks in systems. You have examples where you’ve applied analytical thinking (breaking things down into smaller pieces) and synthetic thinking (seeing the bigger picture trends amongst the pieces)
  
  
• Has experience with high-quality component development—from component architecture, building components, token strategy, and documentation to support
  
  
• Can elevate design standards with high-quality execution of design