Staff Product Designer - Design Systems
Samsara
- San Francisco, CA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact-helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
- You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work, this role won't be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development, countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
- You're energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative, ambitious ideas for our customers.
- You want to be with the best: At Samsara, we win together, celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a high-caliber team that will encourage you to do your best.
- Apply Expertise in Design Systems: You've got experience in building a flexible & scalable Design System across multiple devices and for a multitude of use cases. You identify opportunities for consistency, and can balance competing needs and recognize dependencies across teams.
- Showcase Strong Interaction & Visual Design skills: You thrive in the details, are expert in best practices, and exhibit solid design taste in the effort to create a clean, modern UI system. You push for meeting standards around accessibility and performance. You deeply understand our customers and leverage data to both guide your decisions and measure your success.
- Collaborate & Evangelize: The Staff Design Systems designer is a highly matrixed role, and it's expected that you'll work across teams to uncover needs, drive alignment, generate enthusiasm/ buy-in for design system adoption. You're a leader when it comes to establishing and enforcing healthy processes; you're able to drive alignment across teams, and have a POV on how to best make an impact within a dynamic organization.
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara's cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices
- 7+ years experience designing web & mobile applications
- 4+ years experience with a primary focus on design systems
- Expertise in interaction and visual design
- Expertise with Figma, particularly in how best to enable engineering and design teams for heavy component usage.
- Portfolio showcasing your craft, ability to solve user-problems, and quantified impact
- Craft: Proven ability to evolve platforms with clean, modern UX & UI patterns.
- Customer-centric: Bias towards engaging with customers (internal and external) to understand needs and validate designs
- Teamwork: History of effective collaboration with cross-functional partners
- Impact: Track record of strategic influence and shipping impact