Senior Product Designer Design Systems
Senior Product Designer Design Systems
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$ 149000 - 175750
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Job Description
The Company Youll Join
Carta develops purposebuilt software that transforms traditional accounting into a powerful growth engine.
Cartas worldclass fund administration platform supports nearly 7000 funds and SPVs and represents nearly $130B in assets under management in venture capital and private equity.
Trusted by more than 40000 companies Carta also helps private businesses in over 160 countries manage their cap tables valuations taxes equity programs compensation and more.
Together Carta is setting a new standard as the endtoend platform for private markets. Our bestinclass solution for fund management seamlessly integrates investor and portfolio company insights via a suite of tools designed groundup to support the strategic impact of the fund CFO.
For more information about our offices and culture check out our Carta careers page.
The Problems Youll Solve
At Carta our employees set out on a mission to unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places. We believe that the problems we solve today unlock the opportunities of tomorrow.As a Senior Product Designer on the Design Systems team you will focus on building evolving and maintaining Ink Cartas design system. This role is highly tactical and technical emphasizing scalable UI components system efficiency documentation and adoption.
- Scale and maintain our design system Help evolve and expand Ink ensuring its components patterns tokens and documentation align with the needs of product teams.
- Improve designtocode collaboration Work closely with frontend engineers to define and implement scalable UI components ensuring Figma and code remain in sync.
- Refine component libraries Design document and improve UI componentsfocusing on usability accessibility responsiveness and crossplatform consistency.
- Enforce accessibility best practices Champion inclusive design
- Optimize process and tooling Streamline workflows between designers and developers leveraging tools like Figma Storybook and GitHub to maintain consistency and efficiency.
- Facilitate system adoption Provide clear documentation guidelines and education to help designers and engineers effectively leverage Ink.
- Collaborate crossfunctionally Partner with engineers product managers and designers to optimize design system usage and improve integration into product development.
- Monitor and maintain system health Continuously audit refine and enhance the design system based on realworld usage and feedback.
The Team Youll Work With
Youll be joining the Ink TeamCartas centralized Design Systems group composed of Designers Engineers and Design Technologists. We focus on building maintaining and scaling the tools components patterns documentation and guidelines that power Cartas product design and frontend development. As part of the team youll play a key part in helping optimize system quality and drive adoption ensuring that product and engineering teams can efficiently build highquality cohesive experiences at scale while maintaining consistency and accessibility across products.
About You
You are a detailoriented systems thinker passionate about the technical of design systems. You excel at component structure accessibility best practices and streamlining UI frameworks. With a strong balance of design precision and practicality youre skilled at collaborating with engineers to bring scalable welldocumented design solutions to life.
Were Looking For:
- 5 years of product design experience with at least 3 years focused on design systems.
- Deep expertise in UI/UX components and patterns with a strong understanding of scalability accessibility and usability best practices.
- Proficiency in Figma with experience organizing component libraries design tokens and documentation.
- Familiarity with frontend frameworks including how design translates to code (Storybook React GitHub).
- Strong crossfunctional collaboration skillsability to work closely with engineers and product teams to ensure seamless implementation.
- A track record of maintaining scaling and optimizing enterprise design systems.
- High attention to detail structure and design consistency across platforms.
- Proficiency in accessibility standards and experience embedding them into design systems.
- Comfortable working in a fastpaced environment balancing scalability with practicality.
- Strong documentation and communication skillsability to clearly define use cases guidelines and system constraints.
Nice to Have:
- Experience working with tokens themeable design systems and multibrand component scaling.
- Handson experience in frontend technologies such as CSS React or componentdriven development.
- Experience with finance venture capital or private equity software.
Salary
Cartas compensation package includes a market competitive salary equity for all full time roles exceptional benefits and for applicable roles commissions plans. Our minimum cash compensation (salary commission if applicable) range for this role is:
- $157250 $185000 in San FranciscoCA; New York NY
- $149000 $175750 in Seattle WA
Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography candidate experience and expertise and other factors.
Disclosures:
We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to providing a positive interview experience for every candidate. If accommodations due to a disability or medical condition are needed please connect with the talent partner via email.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
