Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

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At Klaviyo were building the platform that helps businesses create and deliver personalized customer experiences at scale powered by first-party data.

Were looking for a Senior Product Designer to join the Design System team and help evolve Ascent Klaviyos design system. Youll define and scale the reusable components patterns tokens documentation and standards that help teams ship faster creating a more consistent and usable product experience across Klaviyo.

This role sits at the intersection of product design engineering and systems thinking. Youll partner across product teams to improve design-to-code parity drive adoption and use AI and automation to reduce manual friction while maintaining a high bar for quality accessibility and system integrity.

• Evolve Ascents components patterns tokens interaction standards and documentation across Klaviyos product surfaces.
• Partner with engineering to improve design-to-code parity and ensure coded components reflect design intent.
• Identify inconsistencies gaps and duplicated patterns across product teams then turn them into scalable system improvements.
• Own the end-to-end design process from conceptualization to discovery and in some cases all the way to implementation.
• Support adoption through clear guidance design critiques spec reviews office hours workshops and release communications.
• Use AI and automation to accelerate prototyping documentation design specs accessibility checks visual QA and system maintenance.
  
  

• Strong product design experience with a portfolio that shows high-quality UX interaction and visual design craft.
• Experience building maintaining or scaling a design system within a complex product organization.
• Strong systems thinking with the ability to spot patterns simplify complexity and design for reuse across large product surfaces.
• Working knowledge of design tokens accessibility standards such as WCAG and how system decisions map to frontend implementation.
• Ability to partner deeply with engineers PMs brand designers writers and stakeholders to align teams without relying on authority.
• AI-first builder mindset using tools like Claude Cursor v0 Figma Make or similar to explore ideas prototype generate code and improve system workflows.
  
  

• Experience with Storybook code-level component documentation Git or design system release workflows.
• Experience with complex data-rich SaaS products.
• Expertise in Figma component architecture variables styles libraries and scalable design workf