About the job
Weedmaps is hiring a remote Lead Staff Systems Design Engineer to guide the evolution of our design system into a scalable, production-ready product. This role sits at the intersection of Design, Engineering, and AI tooling, ensuring the system is built, maintained, and expanded across all user interfaces. The work directly impacts development speed, product quality, and consistency, while supporting seamless updates and strong usability standards. Success depends on close collaboration with Engineering (including CI/CD, tokens, and tooling), Creative (brand alignment and evolution), and Product Design (development and iteration) teams.
What You Will Do
- Define and advance a multi-platform design system for web and mobile, focusing on architecture, governance, and scalability.
- Own the product roadmap, setting priorities based on product needs, adoption gaps, and system performance.
- Work with Design and Creative leaders to maintain high standards of craftsmanship, modern interaction patterns, and brand adaptability.
- Design and build core system components, creating APIs, variants, and composition patterns that are intuitive, flexible, and scalable.
- Uphold visual precision, fidelity, accessibility (including React Aria), and strong interaction quality, covering motion and state management.
- Continuously improve components based on real-world product usage and edge cases.
- Implement automated quality assurance systems, such as visual regression testing, and regularly audit for usability and craftsmanship. Act as a champion for system quality across teams.
- Lead migration of legacy UI components, ensuring key product areas (like CTAs and checkout flows) use the design system and drive adoption throughout the ecosystem.
- Enhance Developer Experience (DX) by designing well-structured component APIs that balance flexibility with ease of use.
- Build an effective tool-to-code pipeline (Figma, Claude, Builder, etc.) to keep design artifacts in sync with production components and prevent drift.
- Partner with Engineering on architecture decisions (CI/CD, token systems, distribution) and support enforcement mechanisms such as linting and token constraints.
- Introduce and standardize AI-assisted workflows, structuring components for AI-friendly generation and integrating tools (Builder.io, Gemini, etc.) to support consistency.
- Mentor designers and engineers, and develop documentation to encourage system adoption and understanding.
Location
This is a remote position based in New York City, New York.

