Design Systems, Product Designer

Harness is an AI Software Delivery Platform company that focuses on enhancing software delivery through automation and AI. They are seeking a Design Systems Designer to evolve their design system, ensuring consistency and quality across the platform by designing high-quality components and collaborating closely with engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Design and evolve high quality components, patterns, and foundations for our design system
• Build scalable component libraries in Figma using strong auto layout, variants, properties, and responsive structure
• Work in a token based environment, helping define and apply primitives, semantic tokens, and component level tokens
• Partner closely with engineers to ensure components translate cleanly from design to React implementation
• Contribute to multi theme system design across a complex platform
• Raise the quality bar for visual design, accessibility, consistency, and production readiness across the product
• Define system guidance, usage rules, and best practices that help teams adopt the system correctly
• Support the evolution of our design to code workflow using AI assisted tools across Figma, tokens, and implementation pipeline

Requirements:

• Design and evolve high quality components, patterns, and foundations for our design system
• Build scalable component libraries in Figma using strong auto layout, variants, properties, and responsive structure
• Work in a token based environment, helping define and apply primitives, semantic tokens, and component level tokens
• Partner closely with engineers to ensure components translate cleanly from design to React implementation
• Contribute to multi theme system design across a complex platform
• Raise the quality bar for visual design, accessibility, consistency, and production readiness across the product
• Define system guidance, usage rules, and best practices that help teams adopt the system correctly
• Support the evolution of our design to code workflow using AI assisted tools across Figma, tokens, and implementation pipeline
• Strong visual design fundamentals, including typography, spacing, hierarchy, color, and composition
• Sharp attention to detail across component states, interaction patterns, and visual consistency
• Experience designing polished, production ready enterprise UI
• Strong understanding of accessibility, including color contrast, focus states, and WCAG standards
• Ability to balance visual quality with the constraints and structure of a system
• Strong Figma proficiency, especially with auto layout, nesting, constraints, responsive components, variants, and properties
• Experience building and maintaining component libraries in Figma
• Strong understanding of how component properties in design map to props in code
• Clear understanding of the difference between Figma Variables and design tokens
• Hands on experience with Tokens Studio for Figma is required
• Experience working directly with design tokens in JSON and translating them into Figma Variables is also valuable
• Strong grasp of atomic design principles and scalable system architecture
• Experience with token based design systems, including primitive, semantic, and component token layers
• Understanding of how tokens flow from design into code
• Ability to think across themes, modes, and scalable system logic
• Interest in deepening systems thinking and growing in a more technical design systems environment
• Comfortable reading React component structure and discussing implementation details with engineers
• Basic understanding of CSS and utility class patterns, ideally in a Tailwind based environment
• Ability to work closely with engineering on component behavior, states, and design system adoption
• Experience with Style Dictionary or token transformation pipelines
• Familiarity with AI assisted design workflows
• Exposure to design to code automation workflows, including Figma API, MCP servers, or similar tooling
• Experience working on production design systems with code connected token pipelines