BetterHelp · 3 days ago
Product Designer, Design Systems
United States
Contract
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$95/hr - $105/hr
3+ years expBetterHelp is the world’s largest online therapy service, focused on making mental health care more accessible. The Product Designer, Design Systems will lead the creation of an AI-compatible design system and product blueprint, ensuring consistency and scalability across digital experiences.
Health CareHealth DiagnosticsInternetMental HealthTherapeuticsWellness
Responsibilities
Audit existing design assets and component usage to identify gaps and redundancies
Build a unified, scalable Figma design system, with tokens, variables, and AI-ready structure for future automation
Define foundational elements, typography, color, spacing, iconography, accessibility, with documentation for consistent use
Prepare the system for localization and internationalization, ensuring components adapt seamlessly to new markets
Introduce processes and frameworks that keep the design system aligned as the product evolves quickly
Create and maintain a comprehensive product blueprint capturing key user flows (onboarding, payments, navigation, etc.)
Bring together fragmented files and flows into a single source of truth, establishing a full picture of the current experience
Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to identify missing areas and progressively document them
Partner with engineers to ensure system components map cleanly to code (e.g., React libraries or design tokens)
Work closely with designers to drive adoption and streamline workflows
Provide clear documentation, usage guidelines, and best practices to enable system scalability
Structure the design system for AI-enhanced workflows (e.g., Figma Make AI, generative component creation, and tokenized design)
Identify opportunities for automation and AI integration within design ops, documentation, and localization workflows
Qualification
Required
3–6 years in Product or UX/UI design, with direct experience building or maintaining a design system from zero (0→1)
Comfortable navigating fast-moving teams and incomplete product documentation, you bring order and clarity to evolving systems
Skilled in componentization, design tokens, auto-layout, and variables within Figma
Comfortable partnering with front-end engineers to ensure design–dev alignment
Experienced in creating structured documentation and scalable guidelines
Curious and proactive about AI integration in design tools and workflows (Figma Make AI, design tokens, automation)
Familiar with building systems that support multiple languages and regions
Benefits
The chance to build something that changes lives – and that people love
Free BetterHelp accounts for all team members
An awesome community of co-workers
Company
BetterHelp
BetterHelp is an online counseling platform that connects its members to licensed therapists.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
unknown2015-01-01Acquired
Leadership Team
Jan Belke
Country Manager | DACH
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