Sr. Product Designer - Design Systems

We are seeking a Senior Product Designer, Design Systems for a 6+ month contract position based in Irving, Texas. In this role, you will evolve the shared foundations behind enterprise product experiences, including the standards needed for increasingly agentic products. You will turn recurring experience problems into reusable patterns, codify design intent, and help designers, engineers, and AI-assisted development tools work from the same standards. This systems-focused role spans experience standards, machine-readable specifications, working prototypes, verification, and implementation. You will independently own significant system initiatives while partnering with Design Systems leadership and engineering on strategy, governance, and platform architecture.

Responsibilities

• Own complex initiatives from problem definition through implementation, turning product problems into system standards. Decide what becomes a shared pattern, what remains product-specific, and why. Use accessibility requirements, product usage, adoption, and implementation friction to determine what the system should standardize, change, or retire. Contribute to governance and contribution models that keep those decisions durable.
• Help define the experience requirements and standards that should become consumable by AI-assisted development tools. Turn recurring experience decisions-including approval, agent status, recovery, and accessibility requirements-into structured rules, metadata, examples, and tests. Partner with Design Systems leadership and engineering to shape the machine-readable contract and how conformance is evaluated.
• Define how delegation works in products and how the system earns greater autonomy through demonstrated reliability. Design complex, stateful interactions that make oversight, intervention, edge cases, and recovery clear and consistent across agentic patterns.
• Move beyond static screens when behavior is the problem. Prototype interactions, states, transitions, and agentic behaviors at the fidelity needed to make sound decisions. Partner closely with engineers to ensure the intended experience carries through into production.
• Independently own significant design-system initiatives while partnering with Design Systems leadership and engineering on strategy, governance, platform architecture, and implementation.
• Use technical fluency in service of experience judgment and verification. Be comfortable prototyping interactive behavior and working with component architecture, structured specifications, and modern frontend constraints.

Qualifications

• Required

• Created a system standard, pattern, or capability used by teams beyond your immediate product team.

• Designed sophisticated interactions across states, edge cases, accessibility, failure, and recovery.

• Translated design intent into structured specifications, tokens, rules, metadata, or other artifacts that support consistent implementation.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent evidence of scope, systems judgment, and accomplishment.

• Portfolio that includes one system pattern presented end to end, from the experience problem and alternatives considered through the resulting standard and implementation.

• Portfolio that clearly shows the boundaries between what belonged in the shared system, what remained product-specific, and why.

• Updated, modern portfolio demonstrating design systems expertise.

• Preferred

• Experience with AI, automation, or agentic products.

• Experience designing complex B2B or enterprise products.

• Familiarity with machine-readable design systems standards, metadata, schemas, conformance rules, or verification approaches.

• Familiarity with MCP and AI-assisted developmental tooling.

• Extensive experience with design tokens and understanding of how they connect design decisions to implementation across a system.

• Close collaboration with engineering from concept through implementation.

• Experience working in complex enterprise product environments or on design systems serving multiple products and teams.