Product Designer, Design Systems - Irving

Photon is seeking an experienced Product Designer to join their Design Systems team. The role involves designing and building UI components and patterns, collaborating with designers and engineers to create user-friendly experiences, and advocating for accessibility in design systems.

Responsibilities:

• Design reusable components and patterns that align with Citi design principles and support consistent implementation across products
• Create, maintain, and evolve shared UI libraries, templates, and tokens in Figma
• Define and refine system-level patterns for AI‑assisted workflows, agentic experiences, and generative or dynamic UI
• Create UX patterns for multi‑step task orchestration, human‑in‑the‑loop review, and other AI‑supported workflows
• Translate emerging product needs into scalable design system solutions, and document patterns and guidance that enable teams to adopt and extend the system effectively
• Partner with designers, engineers, and product managers to ensure system patterns are feasible, implemented consistently, and meet product needs; review usage to identify gaps and improvement opportunities
• Advocate for accessibility across all design system work, including new AI‑driven experiences
• Establish design system guardrails that reduce ad‑hoc AI UX decisions and improve consistency, quality, and speed across teams
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution of the design system as new AI interaction models and more adaptive product experiences emerge