Principal Product Designer, Pluralsight
Design Systems
$148-195k
+ Bonus eligibility
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Technology workforce development company
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Technology workforce development company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$148-195k
+ Bonus eligibility
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To inspire and empower the tech workforce to achieve their goals.
Role
Who you are
- This is a role for someone who thrives on ambiguity and high-leverage problems, where your decisions on structure, standards, and process become the org's default
- 10+ years of experience in product design, with a substantial portion focused on design systems work
- A demonstrated track record defining component and token architecture for an entire system at a B2B SaaS company — not just contributing components within one
- Experience designing, governing, and scaling a comparable enterprise-scale design system, including component libraries, token architecture, and governance models
- Working knowledge of front-end implementation (HTML/CSS, Code Connect or equivalent), used to credibly influence engineering architecture decisions
- A track record defining and communicating a design system roadmap, along with the metrics that prove it's working (adoption, coverage, defect rate, time-to-implement, or similar)
- Experience establishing accessibility as infrastructure — token- and component-level governance and WCAG expertise — rather than a manual gate
- Comfort using AI to streamline your own workflow and help your work ship on time
- Proven ability to build a data-backed business case that has changed what got prioritized or staffed
- A university degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience is typical for this level; demonstrated impact and scope of work matter more than years of tenure
What the job involves
- Pluralsight is in the middle of a bold, defining transformation — and our design systems work sits right at the heart of it. As our Principal Product Designer, Design Systems, you'll be the keeper of Pando, our shared design language, setting the architectural direction that helps every designer and engineer across the org ship better, more consistent work, faster
- You'll help shape what's next for our product experience, grow your own craft as you build systems infrastructure designed to scale for years, and help our broader design and engineering community thrive together through hands-on mentorship, office hours, and deep cross-team partnership
- Define component architecture and compositional philosophy across the system, leading review of component work to elevate quality and brand consistency org-wide
- Design token architecture (primitive → semantic → component) that scales to new themes and brand variants, identifying and remediating structural token debt along the way
- Build documentation and governance infrastructure that scales independent of your day-to-day involvement, using adoption data to close gaps before they surface as one-off requests
- Partner directly with engineering to build the tooling and working norms that keep design and engineering roadmaps in sync, not siloed
- Scale accessibility so it's a structural default — not a manual check — across new themes and components, partnering with our Accessibility Specialist on org-level investment
- Own and articulate the system's roadmap, define how its effectiveness is measured, and maintain a data-backed business case that directly influences prioritization and resourcing
- This role is primarily performed in an office or home office setting and involves standard computer-based work
Our take
Pluralsight is dedicated to closing the global tech skills gap, a mission that has become increasingly urgent as industries worldwide face a growing shortage of IT talent. This high demand for upskilling makes Pluralsight's online training services more relevant than ever.
Founded in 2004, Pluralsight has matured into a prominent player in the online upskilling industry. The company has seen significant growth in recent years, capitalising on the surge in demand before many competing startups emerged. Despite facing competition from major players like Grow with Google and Udemy, Pluralsight has maintained its strong position.
Though Vista Equity Partners' 2021 acquisition has brought some challenges, Pluralsight, once a unicorn startup now a public company, continues to thrive. With numerous partnerships with NGOs, educational institutions, and corporations, Pluralsight remains a key player in tackling the tech skills shortage.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2016
$30m
SERIES C
Aug 2014
$135m
SERIES B
Total funding: $195m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Summer Fridays
- Holidays
- Parental Leave
- Medical, Dental and Vision
Company HQ
Draper, UT
Leadership
Aaron Skonnard
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked as a DevelopMentor Author, and was President of Skonnard Consulting. In 2004, left a Neumont University Associate Professorship to co-found Pluralsight.
Fritz Onion
(Co-Founder & Content Advisor)Started as an Oracle Software Engineer after a degree at Harvard, and then spent 10 years as a DevelopMentor Instructor. Subsequently co-founded Pluralsight in April 2004, serving as Content Advisor.
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