Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

Thumbtack
Ontario, British Columbia
Full timeUSD 156,400 - 202,400 annuallyFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Experience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Written communication","Accessibility-minded","Collaboration","Documentation"]

Own the experience layer of Thumbtack’s design system, Thumbprint, translating system structure into cohesive product interactions across iOS, Android, and web. Define reusable patterns, flows, and component compositions, evolve the system with modern UI conventions, and create opinionated documentation. Partner with engineers to align Figma components with coded implementation and support AI-driven workflows while maintaining high craft, usability, and accessibility standards.

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Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

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Job Summary

Own the experience layer of Thumbtack’s design system, Thumbprint, translating system structure into cohesive product interactions across iOS, Android, and web. Define reusable patterns, flows, and component compositions, evolve the system with modern UI conventions, and create opinionated documentation. Partner with engineers to align Figma components with coded implementation and support AI-driven workflows while maintaining high craft, usability, and accessibility standards.
Location: Ontario, British Columbia
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own patterns, flows, and component compositions that power product experiences across iOS, Android, and web.
  • •Design and ship reusable components with high craft, including states, variants, responsiveness, and interaction models.
  • •Evolve Thumbprint over time, keeping pace with modern UI patterns, platform conventions, and changing product needs.
  • •Create clear, opinionated documentation and usage guidance, including best practices, anti-patterns, and decision frameworks.
  • •Collaborate with technical partners and engineers to maintain parity between Figma design components and coded implementation.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 156,400 - 202,400 annually

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years of product design experience, with meaningful time owning or evolving a design system at a product company.
  • •Deep familiarity with platform conventions across iOS, Android, and web, including how apps are structured and how that shapes interaction design.
  • •Strong craft for visual design and component work, producing polished, production-ready components designed to scale.
  • •Expert-level Figma skills, including component architecture, variables, tokens, and auto-layout.
  • •Comfort with design-to-code workflows and collaboration, including Storybook, design tokens, and GitHub.
Experience:6+ yearsDesign systems
Skills:Written communicationAccessibility-mindedCollaborationDocumentation
Tech Stack:FigmaIOSAndroidWebClaude CodeFigma MCPStorybookGitHubWCAG AADesign tokensAuto-layout

Company Brief

Thumbtack
Provides an online marketplace connecting local service professionals (home improvement, events, lessons, and more) with customers seeking quotes, reviews, and booking tools to hire vetted contractors and providers.
Industry: Online Marketplaces
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2008
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