Product Designer - Design Systems (Contract)

About the role

This is a 6-month contract engagement (3-month minimum) reporting to the Manager of Product Design. You'll partner closely with our Staff Product Designer as the primary architectural counterpart for DS work across iOS, Android, and React. Day-to-day execution and prioritization within initiative scope is self-managed - Design Leadership sets direction at the initiative level; you own the work from there. As DS work matures in months 2-3 (possibly shorter), you'll take on product design projects as a full contributing member of the team. After a Successful First 3 Months, You Will Have Delivered a written gap assessment and prioritized DS backlog by end of week 2, with priorities ranked across iOS, Android, and React and rationale documented - giving the team a clear, current picture of what the system needs. Shipped production-quality Figma components for iOS (UIKit/SwiftUI) and Android (Material Design 3) that passed engineer review without structural rework - not once, but as a consistent baseline. Owned the React token pipeline end-to-end - Style Dictionary configuration current, Storybook documentation complete and usable by engineers and designers without a walkthrough. Completed a cross-platform consistency audit - shared conventions documented, conflicts resolved, and platform-specific exceptions justified in writing so the next person doesn't have to reverse-engineer the decisions. Contributed product design work - screens, flows, and features - at IC-4 quality as DS capacity opened up, with output that reflected independent platform judgment and required minimal rework.