Principal Product Designer, Design Systems at Pluralsight

Compensation

$148,000 – $195,000/yr

Setup: Remote, Hybrid
Location: Dallas, Texas
Type: Full-time
Level: not_specified

Description

As a Principal Product Designer, Design Systems at Pluralsight, the role focuses on defining and evolving the company's shared design language, Pando. The successful candidate will lead component architecture, design token architecture, and build scalable documentation and governance infrastructure. They will partner with engineering to align design and engineering roadmaps, ensure scalability of accessibility features, and articulate the system's roadmap with measurable outcomes.

Required Skills

product design
design systems work
component architecture
token architecture
front-end implementation
WCAG expertise
AI

Additional Information

Minimum Education: A university degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Required Previous Experiences: 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.
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.