Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes. They are seeking a Senior Product Designer focused on their design system, Thumbprint, to enhance product experiences across various platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Own the patterns, flows, and component compositions that power product experiences across iOS, Android, and web, ensuring consistency and quality at every layer
• Design and ship reusable components with a high bar for craft, including well-defined states, variants, responsiveness, and interaction models
• Define and maintain platform-native interaction patterns that make our product feel cohesive and intentional across surfaces
• Evolve Thumbprint over time to keep pace with modern UI patterns, platform conventions, and the changing needs of our product
• Create clear, opinionated documentation and usage guidance, including best practices, anti-patterns, and decision frameworks teams can act on
• Enable teams to adopt and extend the design system through onboarding, critique, and hands-on partnership
• Collaborate with technical partners to ensure Thumbprint works within AI-driven workflows, including Claude Code, Figma MCP, and our internal prototyping tools
• In addition, work closely with Engineering partners to define, align, and maintain parity between design components in Figma and their coded implementation, ensuring a seamless design-to-development workflow and single source of truth
• Contribute to the naming, taxonomy, and structure so Thumbprint is legible and usable by both people and AI tools

Requirements:

• 6+ years of product design experience, with meaningful time owning or evolving a design system at a product company
• Deep familiarity with platform conventions across iOS, Android, and web, including how great apps are structured and how that shapes interaction design
• High craft bar for visual design and component work; you build components that are polished, production-ready, and designed to scale
• Expert-level Figma skills, including component architecture, variables, tokens, and auto-layout
• Comfortable working across the design-to-code workflow; you know your way around Storybook, design tokens, and GitHub, and can collaborate closely with engineers on implementation
• Strong written communication skills; you write documentation that is clear, opinionated, and easy to act on
• Active interest in how design systems evolve in AI-driven product development, including how system structure and documentation enable teams and tools to work more effectively
• Deep knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG AA) and a commitment to ensuring all components and patterns are inclusive and usable