Lead Product Designer - Design System

BVNK is a company focused on accelerating global money movement through stablecoin-native infrastructure. They are seeking a Lead Product Designer to own and enhance their design system, ensuring it meets the needs of a growing user base and integrates effectively with AI tools.

Responsibilities:

• Set and ship the roadmap. Decide what to build, what to deprecate, what to leave alone, and what to invest in next
• Keep the Figma–Storybook–Zeroheight stack tight. One source of truth per concept, clear documentation, no duplication
• Partner with front-end on contribution flows, component APIs, and the design-to-code handshake
• Read and reason about the component code, not just the designs. You don't need to ship production React, but you should be able to look at a component's implementation, understand its props and composition, and have credible conversations with front-end about tradeoffs
• Run the unglamorous governance work — audits, deprecations, docs hygiene, naming — alongside the new-component work
• Build the system so LLMs and AI prototyping tools generate against it with minimal drift. Component naming, prop structure, usage docs, and examples should all be readable by humans and by models
• Use AI in your own workflow to audit existing patterns, draft component documentation, scaffold new components, and pressure-test API design
• Treat the PMs prototyping with AI as a real user group. Their drift is your signal
• Share what works. The wider design and product org should benefit from what you learn about AI-friendly system design
• Start in an LLM. Use Claude to clarify intent, draft short PRDs, pressure-test approaches, and surface risks and second-order effects before involving the wider team
• Prototype with Claude Code. Generate working components and patterns, then guide them on structure, behaviour, and quality
• Treat AI as a velocity tool across the work — not a novelty, not a side project
• Create new Claude plugins and Skills to keep design prompts consistent
• Articulate the system's impact in metrics, not vibes: adoption, contribution rates, time-to-ship for product teams, prototype-to-production drift, consistency across surfaces
• Make the work visible. Demo it, write about it, share patterns and decisions with designers, engineers, and PMs
• Run crits and reviews around system changes. Mentor designers contributing to the system. Help front-end and PMs become better consumers of it
• Build the case for further investment in the system as it grows

Requirements:

• Experience shipping and governing a design system in production, used by multiple product teams. Not a side project, not a one-off rebuild
• Senior craft across Figma, tokens, component architecture, and the design-engineering handshake
• Working technical literacy in HTML, CSS, and React/TypeScript. You can read component code fluently, understand prop APIs and composition patterns, and reason about implementation tradeoffs with front-end engineers. You don't need to ship production code, but you should be able to prototype in it
• Evidence of running a real roadmap for a system — deciding what to build, what to deprecate, what to defer — and an ability to talk about the metrics that justified those calls
• Fluent, daily use of LLMs and AI prototyping tools as part of your actual workflow — not as something you've read about. Be prepared to show us how you use them, and how you think about AI as a consumer of the systems you build
• Excellent written communication. A lot of our work happens async, and clarity compounds
• Experience in fintech, payments, crypto/stablecoins, or another regulated domain is a plus but not required