Staff / Lead Product Designer, Hive

• If you thrive in systems thinking, love scaling impact through others, and want to help shape a design org from the ground up, this one’s for you
• A systems thinker with experience owning or co-owning a design system — from evolution and adoption to maintenance and governance
• Strong systems design portfolio with a high bar for interaction, visual and implementation detail
• Deep experience in Figma and exposure to working with design tokens, Storybook or other component-driven frameworks
• Strong cross-functional collaborator, with a track record of driving alignment with engineers and crafting tools or workflows that scale across teams
• Comfortable with ambiguity and highly autonomous; able to shape the system’s roadmap and vision, not just execute on it
• Passionate about mentorship, knowledge-sharing and elevating the team around you. You bring others along with generosity and encouragement
• Pragmatic, outcome-focused and capable of navigating trade-offs between design purity and engineering feasibility
• Experience in B2B SaaS or internal tools is a plus — especially if you’ve built systems that support broad platforms or infrastructure layers

Desirable

• We’re looking for a Staff Product Designer, Design Systems to lead the next phase of our design system and broader design ops efforts
• This high-impact IC role is all about laying the foundations that help teams move faster, more cohesively and with higher quality at scale
• You’ll partner closely with the Head of Design and engineering leads to shape our system’s direction, drive adoption, and embed practices that reduce friction in day-to-day work
• This role spans both craft and operations: you’ll evolve our component libraries and tooling, while also shaping workflows, rituals and documentation that enable great design at scale
• Your work will streamline how design happens — supporting clarity, consistency and velocity across teams
• You’ll be the first in this role — with the chance to define what great looks like, set long-term vision and lead strategic initiatives that touch every part of our product and design organisation
• Lead the evolution of our design system across Hive’s product suite. Defining long-term strategy, system architecture and how we scale quality
• Partner closely with engineering counterparts to evolve our system and maintain design–dev parity (e.g. Storybook, tokens), ensuring high-fidelity implementation and scalable architecture
• Design and document reusable components, patterns and design tokens that enable consistency across products while leaving room for thoughtful variation
• Establish and improve system governance (e.g. contribution models, adoption processes) in partnership with engineering — ensuring our system is robust, flexible and well-maintained
• Drive the creation of internal documentation, tooling and rituals that enable designers and engineers to confidently use, extend and evolve the system
• Champion accessibility and usability across all facets of the system, ensuring components meet best practices and align with WCAG standards
• Mentor other designers across the team, sharing systems knowledge and raising the bar for design quality and systems thinking in a supportive, generous way
• Lead initiatives that improve our systems maturity, from evolving component libraries to piloting automation or AI-driven workflows
• Help define how we measure quality, scale design craft and support a shared culture of excellence across the design team and beyond
• Collaborate across Product, Design and Engineering as part of a core team shaping systems and enablement strategy at Hive — laying the foundations for our next chapter of scale