Staff Product Designer, Replit

• 10+ years of product design experience, with deep ownership of a design system at scale
• Strong systems thinker: you see patterns, abstractions, and long-term implications
• Experience collaborating closely with engineers on component APIs, implementation details, and constraints
• Comfort operating at multiple levels—from high-level principles to pixel- and interaction-level decisions
• Proven track record of designing and evolving complex component libraries
• Experience supporting multiple products, teams, or customer-specific variations from a shared system
• Strong opinions on system governance, contribution models, and adoption strategies
• Ways of Working:
• Highly collaborative, with the ability to influence without relying on hierarchy
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and incomplete information
• Pragmatic: you know when to ship, when to refactor, and when to say no
• If you’re excited about owning a living system, shaping how design and engineering collaborate, and building infrastructure that unlocks creativity at scale, we’d love to talk

Desirable

• As Staff Product Designer for the Design System, you will be the primary owner and steward of Replit’s design system—its components, patterns, principles, and governance
• You’ll work closely with product designers, engineers, and design engineers to ensure the system scales across the product, supports enterprise use cases (including customer-integrated design systems), and enables fast, high-quality product development
• This is a senior, high-leverage role. You’ll define not just what the system is, but how it evolves, how decisions get made, and how consistency and flexibility are balanced as Replit ships rapidly
• Lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Replit’s design system
• Define and evolve core components, patterns, tokens, and interaction standards used across the product
• Ensure the system supports a wide range of surfaces, from core product UI to Agent flows, enterprise templates, and customer-integrated design systems
• Partner with product designers and engineers to ensure new features are built on system primitives
• Design for extensibility: support custom stacks, enterprise design systems, and customer-specific theming without fragmentation
• Improve discoverability, clarity, and usability of system-driven UI across key entry points
• Collaborate closely with design engineers on implementation details, tradeoffs, and system architecture
• Influence code-level decisions that affect system consistency and adoption
• Help shape tooling, Storybook usage, and contribution workflows so the system is easy to use and maintain
• Establish clear contribution models, review processes, and decision-making frameworks for system changes
• Act as a design system “domain owner,” providing guidance and sign-off on system-level decisions
• Document principles, patterns, and rationale so decisions scale beyond individuals
• Identify inconsistencies, duplication, and fragmentation across the product and drive systematic improvements
• Balance speed with craft—knowing when to be opinionated and when to enable flexibility
• Advocate for system-level thinking across product, design, and engineering