Backpack is a company focused on building trusted and easy-to-use products in the crypto space. As a Lead Product Designer, you will own the design system that supports the product, collaborating closely with Product Design, Engineering, and Product Management to create a world-class product experience.
Responsibilities:
- Own our design system end to end — tokens, primitives, components, patterns, and documentation
- Define a token architecture (color, typography, spacing, elevation, motion) that scales cleanly across themes and platforms
- Partner daily with engineering to ship the system in code, with tight Figma-to-code parity
- Advocate for and educate product teams on best practices for designing and building with the system
- Set the standards and governance that keep the system coherent as more designers and engineers contribute
- Structure the system to be AI-ready — semantic, well-documented, and consumable by the tools reshaping design and front-end work
Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience as a product designer, design engineer, or similar role, with significant time spent on design systems
- A deep passion for bridging design, code, and systems-level thinking
- Demonstrated experience building or substantially scaling a design system at a product company (please share examples)
- Deep expertise with design tokens, theming, and component architecture in Figma
- Strong understanding of how systems translate into production front-end code, and a track record of close collaboration with engineers
- Fluency with accessibility standards (WCAG) and an eye for the details that make a product feel trustworthy
- Experience in fintech, crypto, trading, or other data-dense, regulated products
- Familiarity with AI-assisted design or front-end tooling