Staff Product Designer - Design Systems - Remote US

HubSpot is an AI-powered customer platform, and they are seeking a Staff Product Designer focused on Design Systems to lead the modernization of their core design system. The role involves validating the platform's future vision, reducing the component footprint, and establishing governance and workflows to enhance the design system's scalability and usability.

Responsibilities:

• Validate our future vision for the platform with users
• Reduce the core component footprint from 300+ to ~60 scalable primitives and reusable components
• Establish parity between Figma, documentation, and React code
• Embed accessibility, internationalization, RTL, and model-connected contracts directly into component APIs
• Create governance, scalable workflows and cross-team decision frameworks to prevent further fragmentation through modernization pilots with key platform teams
• Invest heavily in automation and emerging tooling to accelerate us
• Designing cross-platform components and patterns and operationalizing workflows
• Partnering with platform teams through modernization pilots
• Defining component APIs and architectural boundaries
• Creating documentation, specs, and adoption frameworks
• Facilitating workshops and governance rituals
• Collaborating closely with engineering on scalable implementation
• Driving consolidation and deprecation campaigns across the platform

Requirements:

• Significant experience designing and evolving complex design systems or component libraries at scale
• Deep expertise in UX patterns, interaction models, and information architecture for enterprise or multi-product platforms
• Proven track record of leading modernization or system-wide initiatives without direct management authority
• Experience partnering closely with engineering teams on implementation details, governance models, and scalable processes
• Strong relationship-building skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders across multiple product areas
• Experience turning exploratory pilots into operationalized frameworks, playbooks, and backlog-ready initiatives
• A systems-thinking mindset with the ability to balance immediate product needs and long-term platform health
• A portfolio demonstrating high-quality craft, strategic thinking, and measurable impact across complex surfaces