设计系统负责人
Design Systems Lead
关于该职位
我们正在寻找一位在大型组织中拥有丰富经验的设计系统负责人。您将建立一个直观的语义令牌系统，支持多个平台和框架上的设计和产品团队——这是Perplexity产品在扩展过程中保持一致性的基础。
这是一个真正的50/50设计-工程师角色。您主要在GitHub上工作，负责系统的仓库，同时保持对Figma的熟练，以确保设计和工程不会脱节。您将设定视觉质量的高标准以及让功能团队快速推进而不破坏体验的技术标准。
您将在设计与工程的交汇点工作，与移动、网页和React界面的产品功能团队合作。
您将负责的工作
- 建立并主导一个跨多个平台和框架的直观语义令牌系统
- 负责GitHub上的设计系统仓库：组件、令牌和标准的权威来源，包括版本控制、发布管理和清晰的变更日志
- 在系统所涉及的每个界面上设定并维持高质量的视觉设计标准
- 理解移动、网页和React UI最佳实践之间的细微差别，并将其编码到系统中
- 定义并执行贡献模式和治理机制：审查并引导来自产品功能团队的输入，随着系统增长保持高质量和一致性
- 保持设计和工程同步，连接Figma和代码，确保系统端到端的一致性
- 主导清晰、一流的文档，使团队能够自主采用组件和令牌，并通过入职培训、办公时间及现场支持推动整个组织的采用
- 将可访问性（WCAG）和主题（包括暗色模式）作为默认设置，而非事后补充
- 维护系统路线图，在新功能、迁移和弃用之间平衡与功能团队的需求
- 将新的AI工具引入设计系统工作流程，并帮助塑造我们以AI原生方式构建系统的方式
- 在快速变化、不确定的环境中自主运作
我们寻找的人选
- 在大型组织中拥有丰富的设计系统管理经验
- 一位真正的50/50设计工程师，视觉工艺和代码方面都同样可信
- 对视觉设计有极高的敏锐度
- 深入理解移动、网页和React UI最佳实践之间的细微差别
- 强烈的产品意识
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ABOUT THE ROLE
We're seeking a Design Systems Lead with extensive experience owning design systems at large organizations. You'll bootstrap an intuitive semantic token system that supports design and product teams across multiple platforms and frameworks - the foundation that keeps Perplexity's product coherent as we scale.
This is a true 50/50 design-engineer role. You'll live primarily in GitHub, where you own the system's repo, while staying fluent in Figma so design and engineering never drift apart. You'll set the bar for visual quality and the technical standards that let feature teams move fast without fragmenting the experience.
You'll work at the intersection of design and engineering, partnering with product feature teams across mobile, web, and React surfaces.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Bootstrap and own an intuitive semantic token system that works across multiple platforms and frameworks
- Own the design system repo on GitHub: the source of truth for components, tokens, and standards, including versioning, release management, and a clear changelog
- Set and uphold a high bar for visual design quality across every surface the system touches
- Navigate the nuanced differences between mobile, web, and React UI best practices, and encode them into the system
- Define and run the contribution model and governance: review and shepherd inbound contributions from product feature teams, keeping quality and consistency high as the system grows
- Keep design and engineering in sync, bridging Figma and code so the system stays coherent end-to-end
- Own clear, first-class documentation so teams can adopt components and tokens on their own, and drive adoption across the org through onboarding, office hours, and hands-on support
- Bake in accessibility (WCAG) and theming (including dark mode) as defaults, not afterthoughts
- Maintain a system roadmap, balancing net-new work, migrations, and deprecations against feature-team needs
- Bring new AI tooling into the design systems workflow and help shape how we build systems in an AI-native way
- Operate with autonomy in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Extensive experience owning design systems at large organizations
- A true 50/50 design-engineer, equally credible in visual craft and in code
- An impeccable eye for visual design
- Deep understanding of the nuanced differences between mobile, web, and React UI best practices
- Strong product sensibilities to help evaluate and integrate contributions from various product feature teams
- Fluency in Figma, but primarily living in GitHub where you own the repo
- Experience designing and maintaining semantic design tokens and scalable component APIs
- A track record of driving adoption through excellent documentation and cross-functional partnership
- Working knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) and how to build them into a system
- Readiness to work with new AI tooling and genuine comfort with ambiguity
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience building a semantic token system from scratch across multiple platforms
- A track record scaling a design system through a period of fast org growth
- Experience defining contribution models and governance for multi-team design systems
- Familiarity with component tooling and documentation platforms (e.g., Storybook)
- Experience mentoring designers and engineers and growing a design systems practice