Senior Designer, Design Systems

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Austin, TX, USA
Hybrid
190K-215K Annually
Senior level
Mobile • Other
The Role
Design, maintain, and scale design system tokens, components, and documentation across platforms. Audit product experiences, partner with engineering for design-to-code parity, advocate accessibility and safety, support onboarding, define product strategy, and iterate using qualitative, quantitative, and AI-assisted insights.
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What You'll Do

  • Design, evolve, and maintain system tokens, components, and patterns that are accessible, resilient, and scalable across platforms, championing inclusive design practices aligned with our value of Respect.
  • Audit existing product experiences to identify design debt, inconsistencies, and opportunities to improve system coverage, then take ownership of prioritising and delivering meaningful improvements.
  • Partner closely with engineering to ensure strong parity between Figma libraries and production code, collaborating through shared design-to-code workflows and AI-supported documentation practices.
  • Create clear, discoverable system documentation — including usage guidelines, do/don’ts, component states, motion, and error handling — that empowers teams to ship confidently and efficiently.
  • Advocate for safe-by-design and accessible patterns that reflect Bumble’s commitment to kindness, safety, and equitable experiences for diverse members.
  • Support and onboard product teams adopting the design system, facilitating alignment sessions, and responding thoughtfully to system support requests.
  • Contribute to the design system’s product strategy by helping define its vision, roadmap, and success metrics, including adoption, usability improvements, and reduced time-to-ship.
  • Use qualitative and quantitative feedback from designers, engineers, and members — alongside AI-assisted insights — to iterate, measure impact, and continuously improve the system with an agile mindset.

About You

  • You bring deep empathy for diverse users and consistently design with inclusion, accessibility, and safety at the forefront, reflecting Bumble’s values of Respect and Courage.
  • You have strong experience designing and scaling component libraries, tokens, and patterns across multiple products or teams, balancing visual craft with usability and performance.
  • You’re highly fluent in Figma, including components, variants, variable collections, libraries, and documentation workflows, and comfortable managing complex token systems (Tokens Studio experience is a plus).
  • You communicate clearly and collaboratively with designers and engineers, explaining trade-offs and rationale in a way that builds trust, alignment, and shared ownership.
  • You take ownership of your work end-to-end, collaborate with purpose across functions, and see ideas through from insight to impact, adapting plans with an agile mindset.
  • You’re comfortable using AI-powered tools to support design exploration, documentation, and system maintenance, and you’re curious about how AI can responsibly improve design system workflows over time.
  • Typically requires 7–9 years of experience using and maintaining or contributing to product design systems (frontend development is highly valued, though not a requirement or responsibility).
  • You’re collaborative, low-ego, and excited to coach and elevate others across the organization.

About Us
Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble Date, BFF, and Badoo. The Bumble platform enables people to build healthy and equitable relationships, through Kind Connections. Founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the center and connects people across dating (Bumble Date) and friendship (BFF). BFF is a friendship app where people in all stages of life can meet people nearby and create meaningful platonic connections and community based on shared interests. Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products. 
 
AI Fluency
AI is important to us. We’re excited by people who are curious and experimental, and who think thoughtfully about how AI can amplify their impact and outcomes.
We encourage you to use AI responsibly as you prepare your application. Please don’t use it to fabricate experiences or answer questions live in interviews. We care deeply about authenticity and want to understand your real skills, judgment and voice, because building a meaningful, genuine connection with you matters to us.
 
Final Compensation
Will be determined based on factors such as the selected candidate’s qualifications, relevant experience, skill set, and other job-related considerations.

Benefits & Perks
Insurance: Medical/dental/vision, 30-day eligibility. Bumble has multiple competitive offerings that will be available to you on the first of the month following date of hire.
Unlimited PTO + 1 company-wide week off + Focus Fridays every week
Fully paid life and long-term disability insurance
401k with 4% company match if you contribute 6%, 90-day eligibility
Monthly wellness benefit and access to Noom, Unmind, and Your Money Line
Maternity and Fertility benefit + 26 week paid parental leave
Premium App Access

Inclusion at Bumble Inc. 
Bumble Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage people of all ages, colour, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, people with disabilities, and neurodivergent people to apply. We're happy to make any reasonable adjustments that will help you feel more confident throughout the process, please don't hesitate to let us know how we can help.
In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example: she/her, he/him, they/them, etc).
 
AI in Bumble Inc. Hiring 
At Bumble, we may use AI tools to support parts of our recruitment process — such as helping us record, transcribe, and summarize conversations, and supporting job alignment by comparing resumes and job descriptions to highlight skills and potential roles that may be a good match. These tools help us work more efficiently and stay focused on you during our conversations. Importantly, all hiring decisions are made by people. AI is used only to support our team’s efficiency and improve the candidate experience — not to evaluate or decide on your candidacy. Participation in AI-supported interviews and conversations is completely voluntary and will not impact your candidacy. If you’d prefer to opt out, simply let your recruiter or interviewer know at the start of a call, or anytime during the interview or conversation. Summaries and related data are retained only as long as needed in line with our internal data retention policies. If at any point you’d like a transcription or summary deleted, please contact your recruiter directly.
For further information on how we hold and manage your data, please refer to our Privacy Policy.

Skills Required

  • 7-9 years experience contributing to or maintaining product design systems
  • Strong experience designing and scaling component libraries, tokens, and patterns across multiple products or teams
  • Fluent in Figma including components, variants, variable collections, libraries, and documentation workflows
  • Comfortable managing complex token systems
  • Tokens Studio experience
  • Experience collaborating with engineering on design-to-code workflows and maintaining parity between Figma and production code
  • Strong knowledge of accessibility, inclusive design, and safe-by-design patterns
  • Comfortable using AI-powered tools to support design exploration, documentation, and system maintenance
  • Frontend development experience (highly valued but not required)
  • Excellent communication, cross-functional collaboration, and coaching/onboarding skills
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The Company
Austin, TX
1,440 Employees

What We Do

Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble, Badoo, and Fruitz. The Bumble platform enables people to connect and build equitable and healthy relationships. Founded by CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the center. Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products. Fruitz, founded in 2017, encourages open and honest communication of dating intentions through playful fruit metaphors. Download Bumble : http://bit.ly/bumblesignup

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