Design Systems, Product Designer

Harness

1d•Remote

About The Position

As part of our Harness 3.0 evolution, we are rethinking the visual and technical foundation of the Harness product experience. We are hiring a Design Systems Designer to help shape that next chapter. This role sits at the intersection of product design and engineering. You will design and evolve the system that powers consistency, quality, and speed across our platform. That includes component libraries, token architecture, theming, interaction patterns, and the guidance that helps product teams build with more confidence and less friction. This is an especially exciting moment to join. Harness 3.0 is raising the bar on visual quality, modernizing our design language, and strengthening the design to code workflows that will power the next generation of the product. We are looking for someone with strong UI visual craft, high attention to detail, and a real interest in how systems come to life in code. This is not a maintenance role. We need a designer who can create polished, production ready UI, think systematically, and work comfortably in a token based, code integrated workflow.

Requirements

Visual design and craft
Strong visual design fundamentals, including typography, spacing, hierarchy, color, and composition
Sharp attention to detail across component states, interaction patterns, and visual consistency
Experience designing polished, production ready enterprise UI
Strong understanding of accessibility, including color contrast, focus states, and WCAG standards
Ability to balance visual quality with the constraints and structure of a system
Figma and component systems
Strong Figma proficiency, especially with auto layout, nesting, constraints, responsive components, variants, and properties
Experience building and maintaining component libraries in Figma
Strong understanding of how component properties in design map to props in code
Clear understanding of the difference between Figma Variables and design tokens
Hands on experience with Tokens Studio for Figma is required
Experience working directly with design tokens in JSON and translating them into Figma Variables is also valuable
Systems thinking
Strong grasp of atomic design principles and scalable system architecture
Experience with token based design systems, including primitive, semantic, and component token layers
Understanding of how tokens flow from design into code
Ability to think across themes, modes, and scalable system logic
Interest in deepening systems thinking and growing in a more technical design systems environment
Technical collaboration
Comfortable reading React component structure and discussing implementation details with engineers
Basic understanding of CSS and utility class patterns, ideally in a Tailwind based environment
Ability to work closely with engineering on component behavior, states, and design system adoption

Nice To Haves

Experience with Style Dictionary or token transformation pipelines
Familiarity with AI assisted design workflows
Exposure to design to code automation workflows, including Figma API, MCP servers, or similar tooling
Experience working on production design systems with code connected token pipelines

Responsibilities

Design and evolve high quality components, patterns, and foundations for our design system
Build scalable component libraries in Figma using strong auto layout, variants, properties, and responsive structure
Work in a token based environment, helping define and apply primitives, semantic tokens, and component level tokens
Partner closely with engineers to ensure components translate cleanly from design to React implementation
Contribute to multi theme system design across a complex platform
Raise the quality bar for visual design, accessibility, consistency, and production readiness across the product
Define system guidance, usage rules, and best practices that help teams adopt the system correctly
Support the evolution of our design to code workflow using AI assisted tools across Figma, tokens, and implementation pipeline