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About the Role

As a Senior Product Designer, Design Systems at Shipt, you will help shape and evolve the design foundations that power experiences across our entire product ecosystem. You will lead the design of scalable components, interaction patterns, design foundations, and documentation that enable product teams to deliver consistent, accessible, and high-quality experiences. This role requires a systems mindset, exceptional design craft, and the ability to influence across multiple teams. You'll partner closely with Product Design, Engineering, Accessibility, Research, and Product leaders to solve complex design challenges at scale while continuously improving how designers and engineers build products together. You'll also play a key role in exploring and adopting emerging AI-powered tools and workflows that improve design quality, increase efficiency, and enable the next generation of design system capabilities.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and evolution of reusable components, patterns, design foundations, and interaction standards that scale across multiple products and platforms.
Balance consistency with flexibility to enable product innovation while maintaining a cohesive user experience.
Solve complex, ambiguous design problems by identifying patterns across products and translating them into scalable system solutions.
Develop thoughtful component behaviors, APIs, interaction models, accessibility requirements, and implementation guidance.
Partner closely with Product Designers, Design System Engineers, Front-End Engineers, Product Managers, and Accessibility experts to ensure component quality, adoption, and seamless implementation across the organization.
Actively experiment with emerging AI-powered design tools and workflows to improve component creation, documentation, governance, quality assurance, and team productivity.
Identify opportunities where AI can responsibly accelerate design workflows while maintaining high standards of quality, accessibility, and usability.
Help establish contribution models, governance processes, documentation standards, and review practices that ensure the long-term health and scalability of the Design System.
Measure adoption and continuously improve the system based on user feedback and organizational needs.
Build trusted relationships across Design, Product, and Engineering organizations.
Advocate for scalable design solutions and influence product teams to leverage the Design System while balancing business needs and user outcomes.
Mentor designers across the organization in systems thinking, accessibility, component design, and modern design workflows.
Share best practices and foster a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and design excellence.
Participate in recruiting efforts, portfolio reviews, and interviews.
Help identify exceptional talent while raising the bar for design craft, systems thinking, collaboration, and innovation.

Requirements

Recognizes patterns across products and translates them into scalable, reusable design solutions that improve consistency and efficiency.
Leverages research, experimentation, accessibility, and iterative design methods to create high-quality components and system patterns that solve broad organizational needs.
Makes thoughtful trade-offs between consistency, flexibility, usability, technical feasibility, and business priorities while maintaining a high bar for craft.
Continuously explores emerging AI technologies and design workflows, thoughtfully integrating new capabilities that improve designer productivity, system quality, and organizational effectiveness.
Understands how Design Systems drive business value by improving product quality, accelerating delivery, reducing design and engineering effort, and enabling scalable growth.
Ego None. You work with humility, value feedback, and prioritize the success of the Design System and product teams over individual ownership.
You are recognized as a trusted design partner who elevates design quality across teams through collaboration, mentorship, and thoughtful decision-making.
Coach designers on systems thinking, accessibility, component design, AI-assisted workflows, and best practices.
Help grow design maturity across the organization.

Skills

Design Systems
Component Design
Interaction Design
Information Architecture
Visual Design
Design Foundations
Design Tokens
Accessibility
User Frameworks & Psychology
Systems Thinking
Prototyping
Documentation
Cross-Platform Design
Generative AI tools
Modern front-end development principles
Component libraries
Responsive design
Developer handoff processes
Figma (Variables, Component Properties, Auto Layout, Libraries, Dev Mode)

Location

Birmingham, AL
Minneapolis, MN
San Francisco, CA

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

4+ years of Product Design experience with demonstrated expertise in Design Systems, platform design, or highly scalable product experiences.

Salary/Compensations

$134,000 - $190,000

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision
Company’s 401k plan
Discretionary vacation for exempt team members
Paid holidays
Paid sick leave
Eligibility for an annual bonus
Potential for restricted stock units based on role

About the Company

Shipt is a retail tech company that connects people to reliable, high-quality delivery with a personal touch.
Shipt connects customers to the things they want from the stores they love, retail businesses to more satisfied customers, and workers to new earning opportunities.
At Shipt, we aim to put our team first to boost a sense of belonging, spark opportunities for growth, provide unique benefits and commit to giving back to our communities in ways that make life better, both personally and professionally.
We understand that our service, our culture, and our connection to our communities are only made better by every single person who shows up to work here every day.
Shipt is an independently operated, wholly owned subsidiary of Target Corporation and available in more than 5,000 U.S. cities.
Shipt was founded and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.
Hi, we’re Shipt! We’re a retail-tech company that connects people to reliable, high-quality delivery with a personal touch.
Just as Shipt is an industry leader in outstanding service and care, our parent company Target is beloved across the country for their focus on bringing joy to families.
Together, we've created a synergy that results in an elevated, personalized experience for all our customers, team members, and partners.
Shipt reaches more than 60 million households across the U.S.

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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