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FloQast · 3 days ago

Staff Product Designer, Platform/Design Systems

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$164K/yr - $246K/yr

7+ years exp

FloQast is at the forefront of the accounting industry, providing an AI-powered Accounting Transformation Platform founded by accountants, for accountants. The Staff Product Designer will serve as the principal authority on the design system and platform-level experiences, driving quality and consistency across all products while focusing on user-centric design for transformative AI capabilities.

AccountingB2BEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Responsibilities

Define Platform-Wide Experiences: Act as the domain expert and owner for critical, system-wide experiences, such as in-app notifications, global navigation, and page architectures, ensuring a unified and consistent user journey across all product lines

Design for Transformative AI: Translate complex AI capabilities and enterprise requirements into intuitive, high-trust, and scalable experiences across the platform

Lead Design System Strategy and Transformation: Own the strategic vision, roadmap, and execution for the Flow UI Design System. Drive the transformation, updates, and rollout of the system, ensuring it is scalable, technically sound, and fully aligned with business needs and product architecture

Influence Engineering Architecture: Partner directly with Front-End Engineering Leads and Leadership to ensure Flo UI is technically sound, maintainable, and reflects best practices. You will serve as a broad influencer on the direction of the overall product architecture as it relates to UI/UX implementation

Drive Design Enablement and Velocity: Establish processes and governance to maximize the impact and adoption of the design system across all product and engineering teams, accelerating design and development velocity for the entire organization

Architect Product Vision and Roadmap: Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering Leadership to define the product roadmap for Flow UI and design debt, proactively identifying and scoping opportunities for platform-level standardization and improvement

Mentor and Coach: Act as a senior design leader, providing mentorship and coaching to designers across the organization in system thinking, design systems best practices, quality execution, and cross-functional leadership

Elevate Quality at Scale: Set and enforce the highest bar for design quality, consistency, and accessibility across the entire platform through system documentation and rigorous component review while still allowing for speed and innovation. The quality bar should be set by user needs, not just UI best best practices

Qualification

Design Systems expertiseEnterprise product designFront-End development knowledgeFigma proficiencyComponent documentationUser research skillsStrategic collaborationOrganizational leadershipQuality assuranceMentorship

Required

7+ years of professional experience designing and successfully shipping high-quality, complex SaaS or enterprise products at scale, with a significant track record of organizational impact

Expert mastery over the entire Design Systems lifecycle, including leading, building, scaling, and governing a large-scale, enterprise-grade Design System

Technical fluency required to influence code and front-end architecture, including a strong understanding of front-end development technologies (e.g., React, HTML/CSS)

Expert in managing the integrity of design decisions across code, including ensuring design decisions are implemented consistently in code through Design Token Management tools

Fluent in modern developer workflows and component distribution, including familiarity with developer processes like Version Control (Git/GitHub) and managing component distribution via Package Management

Prioritize system quality assurance and comprehensive documentation, including experience with component documentation platforms like Storybook

Maintain a world-class portfolio that demonstrates exceptional systems thinking, visual design, interaction design, and strategic thinking

Proven leader in founding and launching new product foundations, including successfully leading and shipping product initiatives from 0-1

Advanced proficiency with specialized design systems tools, including mastery of core design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma)

Exceptional strategic collaboration and organizational influencing skills, with a proven ability to articulate and defend design and system rationale to executive leadership

Lead and inform system priorities through rigorous research and data, utilizing both qualitative user research and quantitative data