Lead Product Designer - Design Systems

Rocket Limited Partnership is a Detroit-based company focused on providing innovative home loan solutions. They are seeking a Lead Product Designer for Design Systems to define and evolve their design system, ensuring high-quality user experiences across products while mentoring design teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the evolution of the company’s design system, creating a shared set of elements that are flexible across web and mobile platforms
• Design and maintain scalable components, tokens, patterns, and system documentation
• Partner with engineering to deliver high-quality, performant libraries, tooling, and documentation
• Champion accessibility, inclusivity, and localization within the design system
• Advocate for high-quality design craft by raising visual and interaction standards across the organization
• Enable and educate product teams through documentation, workshops, critiques, and hands-on collaboration
• Partner with product, engineering, brand, and marketing teams to encourage adoption and alignment
• Mentor designers and influence the broader organization by promoting systems thinking as a core design capability
• Continuously identify gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities to improve the system as products evolve

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in product, visual, or systems design, including significant ownership of design systems
• Deep expertise building and scaling design systems in complex, multi-product environments
• Strong systems thinking - you see patterns, anticipate edge cases, and design for scale
• Hands-on experience designing and maintaining component libraries in tools like Figma and Storybook
• You stay up to date and have experience with the latest design system features, tooling and benchmarks, including emerging AI-assisted design and development workflows (e.g., MCP, Code Connect, Figma Make, v0)
• Strong understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design principles
• Experience collaborating closely with Engineering to deliver production-ready components
• Ability to translate complex system requirements into clear, usable patterns and documentation
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate system decisions and influence adoption
• Familiarity with front-end technologies and constraints (e.g., CSS, component-based frameworks like React or Angular, and design tokens)