Lead Product Designer - Design Systems

Rocket Companies

27d

About The Position

As the Lead Product Designer, Design Systems, you are responsible for defining, evolving, and scaling our design system to ensure cohesive, accessible, and high-quality experiences across our product ecosystem. This role focuses on being a thought leader and hands-on builder of the foundational components, patterns, and guidelines that empower product teams to move faster while raising the bar for craft, consistency, and brand integrity. As a senior individual contributor and design leader, you will partner with product, engineering, brand, and system leadership to translate system strategy into production-ready solutions. You will raise design standards, bring vision into practice, and mentor others in designing with systems at scale. About the role Lead the evolution of the company’s design system, creating a shared set of elements that are flexible across web and mobile platforms. Design and maintain scalable components, tokens, patterns, and system documentation. Partner with engineering to deliver high-quality, performant libraries, tooling, and documentation. Champion accessibility, inclusivity, and localization within the design system. Advocate for high-quality design craft by raising visual and interaction standards across the organization. Enable and educate product teams through documentation, workshops, critiques, and hands-on collaboration. Partner with product, engineering, brand, and marketing teams to encourage adoption and alignment. Mentor designers and influence the broader organization by promoting systems thinking as a core design capability. Continuously identify gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities to improve the system as products evolve.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in product, visual, or systems design, including significant ownership of design systems.
• Deep expertise building and scaling design systems in complex, multi-product environments.
• Strong systems thinking - you see patterns, anticipate edge cases, and design for scale.
• Hands-on experience designing and maintaining component libraries in tools like Figma and Storybook.
• You stay up to date and have experience with the latest design system features, tooling and benchmarks, including emerging AI-assisted design and development workflows (e.g., MCP, Code Connect, Figma Make, v0).
• Strong understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design principles.
• Experience collaborating closely with Engineering to deliver production-ready components.
• Ability to translate complex system requirements into clear, usable patterns and documentation.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate system decisions and influence adoption.
• Familiarity with front-end technologies and constraints (e.g., CSS, component-based frameworks like React or Angular, and design tokens).

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution of the company’s design system, creating a shared set of elements that are flexible across web and mobile platforms.
• Design and maintain scalable components, tokens, patterns, and system documentation.
• Partner with engineering to deliver high-quality, performant libraries, tooling, and documentation.
• Champion accessibility, inclusivity, and localization within the design system.
• Advocate for high-quality design craft by raising visual and interaction standards across the organization.
• Enable and educate product teams through documentation, workshops, critiques, and hands-on collaboration.
• Partner with product, engineering, brand, and marketing teams to encourage adoption and alignment.
• Mentor designers and influence the broader organization by promoting systems thinking as a core design capability.
• Continuously identify gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities to improve the system as products evolve.

Benefits

• Our team members fuel our strategy, innovation and growth, so we ensure the health and well-being of not just you, but your family, too!
• We go above and beyond to give you the support you need on an individual level and offer all sorts of ways to help you live your best life.
• We are proud to offer eligible team members perks and health benefits that will help you have peace of mind.
• Simply put: We’ve got your back.
• Check out our full list of Benefits and Perks.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed