Staff Product Designer, Design Systems

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Turo · San Francisco

$178K–$222K/yrFull-timeHybrid2d ago

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About the role

Turo's design system is live on iOS, Android, and web, but it isn't yet pulling its weight. Coverage is uneven, and product teams often find themselves working around the system rather than with it. As a staff product designer on the design systems team you're here to change that. Your mission is to turn the system into the default starting point and build an intuitive and high-quality system that teams reach for naturally. You'll build a foundation that's clear enough for people to use today and structured well enough for AI agents, ensuring Turo's design language scales effortlessly.

Responsibilities

Audit & analysis. Take a holistic look at our products to spot where the system is drifting or falling short. You'll untangle overlapping root causes and find the high-leverage fixes that solve problems for multiple teams at once, ensuring our solutions scale as fast as our products.

Quality standards & accessibility. Define and enforce quality standards for interaction, visual detail, accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA minimum), and platform fidelity. Raise the bar through critique, contribution, education, and example.

Cross-functional partnership. Partner with feature teams through office hours, pairing sessions, and contribution reviews. You will help teams navigate patterns the system doesn't yet cover and decide when a design should become a global standard or remain a local solution.

Education & advocacy. Teach the system through workshops, clear guidance, and constructive critique. Your goal is to raise the entire team's system fluency so that success is measured by how effectively everyone builds together, not just by what you ship.

Your profile

8+ years of experience designing product experiences, with a focus on evolving design systems with gaps and workarounds into trusted foundations. You understand that true success is measured by team adoption and reliability, not just by the number of components you ship.

Shipped components and patterns used by multiple product teams across mobile and web. You can speak to tradeoffs you made and what you'd do differently.

Deep fluency with tokens, component architecture, variants, and Figma systems craft.

Experience with Claude Code (or other agentic coding tools), MCPs, and other AI workflows

A working model of design system governance. You know when to ship a new layer of the system, when to extend, and when to say no. You can also confidently defend those calls to leadership.

Experience partnering with platform engineers on implementation, parity, and release cadence.

A track record of scaling your impact through others. Workshops, written guidance, critique, and mentorship are part of how you work, not afterthoughts.

Clear written communication. You can write documentation a junior designer, a staff engineer, and an agent can all use.

Bonus

Experience building and maintaining linters for design teams.

Exposure to token pipelines, Style Dictionary, or equivalent cross-platform token infrastructure.

History contributing to accessibility standards or tooling.

Turo highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative

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