Senior or Staff Design Engineer, Design Systems

Harvey
New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 192,000 - 259,500 annuallyFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Experience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Teamwork"]

Staff Design Systems Designer responsible for defining and evolving Harvey’s core design system foundations. You’ll partner with frontend and platform engineers to design, prototype, and ship scalable components, tokens, and patterns for AI-powered experiences, while advocating for system governance, accessibility, performance, and cross-team adoption.

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Harvey
Harvey
6 months ago

Senior or Staff Design Engineer, Design Systems

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Job Summary

Staff Design Systems Designer responsible for defining and evolving Harvey’s core design system foundations. You’ll partner with frontend and platform engineers to design, prototype, and ship scalable components, tokens, and patterns for AI-powered experiences, while advocating for system governance, accessibility, performance, and cross-team adoption.
Location: New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and evolve the core design system foundations, including components, patterns, and tokens that scale across complex, AI-powered experiences
  • •Design, prototype, and ship production-ready system components in tight collaboration with frontend engineering
  • •Partner directly with frontend and platform engineers to ensure system decisions translate cleanly into code, with shared ownership of quality, performance, and maintainability
  • •Establish clear contribution, governance, and deprecation models that balance velocity with system integrity
  • •Embed accessibility, responsiveness, and performance into the system by default

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 192,000 - 259,500 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of experience in product design with significant ownership of design systems in complex product environments
  • •An excellent portfolio demonstrating system-level thinking, component design, and real product impact
  • •Deep understanding of component architecture, design tokens, and how design systems scale across teams
  • •Proven experience partnering closely with frontend engineers to ship high-quality, production systems
  • •Strong working knowledge of accessibility standards and inclusive design practices
Experience:8+ years
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingTeamwork

Company Brief

Harvey
Harvey builds domain-specific generative AI for legal and professional services, automating contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation workflows for law firms and corporate legal teams.
Industry: LegalTech
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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