Principal Product Designer, Design Systems

Pluralsight provides a technology skills development and learning platform for individuals and organizations. The Principal Product Designer, Design Systems will set the architectural direction for Pando, define component and token systems, build scalable governance and documentation, partner with engineering, advance accessibility, and own the design system roadmap and metrics.

Responsibilities:

• Define component architecture and compositional philosophy across the system, leading review of component work to elevate quality and brand consistency org-wide
• Design token architecture (primitive → semantic → component) that scales to new themes and brand variants, identifying and remediating structural token debt along the way
• Build documentation and governance infrastructure that scales independent of your day-to-day involvement, using adoption data to close gaps before they surface as one-off requests
• Partner directly with engineering to build the tooling and working norms that keep design and engineering roadmaps in sync, not siloed
• Scale accessibility so it's a structural default — not a manual check — across new themes and components, partnering with our Accessibility Specialist on org-level investment
• Own and articulate the system's roadmap, define how its effectiveness is measured, and maintain a data-backed business case that directly influences prioritization and resourcing

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in product design, with a substantial portion focused on design systems work
• A demonstrated track record defining component and token architecture for an entire system at a B2B SaaS company — not just contributing components within one
• Experience designing, governing, and scaling a comparable enterprise-scale design system, including component libraries, token architecture, and governance models
• Working knowledge of front-end implementation (HTML/CSS, Code Connect or equivalent), used to credibly influence engineering architecture decisions
• A track record defining and communicating a design system roadmap, along with the metrics that prove it's working (adoption, coverage, defect rate, time-to-implement, or similar)
• Experience establishing accessibility as infrastructure — token- and component-level governance and WCAG expertise — rather than a manual gate
• Comfort using AI to streamline your own workflow and help your work ship on time
• Proven ability to build a data-backed business case that has changed what got prioritized or staffed
• A university degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience is typical for this level; demonstrated impact and scope of work matter more than years of tenure