This role requires a systems mindset, exceptional design craft, and the ability to influence across multiple teams. You'll partner closely with Product Design, Engineering, Accessibility, Research, and Product leaders to solve complex design challenges at scale while continuously improving how designers and engineers build products together.
You'll also play a key role in exploring and adopting emerging AI-powered tools and workflows that improve design quality, increase efficiency, and enable the next generation of design system capabilities.
Design Systems Leadership
Lead the design and evolution of reusable components, patterns, design foundations, and interaction standards that scale across multiple products and platforms. Balance consistency with flexibility to enable product innovation while maintaining a cohesive user experience.
Solve complex, ambiguous design problems by identifying patterns across products and translating them into scalable system solutions. Develop thoughtful component behaviors, APIs, interaction models, accessibility requirements, and implementation guidance.
Partner closely with Product Designers, Design System Engineers, Front-End Engineers, Product Managers, and Accessibility experts to ensure component quality, adoption, and seamless implementation across the organization.
Actively experiment with emerging AI-powered design tools and workflows to improve component creation, documentation, governance, quality assurance, and team productivity. Identify opportunities where AI can responsibly accelerate design workflows while maintaining high standards of quality, accessibility, and usability.
Help establish contribution models, governance processes, documentation standards, and review practices that ensure the long-term health and scalability of the Design System. Measure adoption and continuously improve the system based on user feedback and organizational needs.
Build trusted relationships across Design, Product, and Engineering organizations. Advocate for scalable design solutions and influence product teams to leverage the Design System while balancing business needs and user outcomes.
Mentor designers across the organization in systems thinking, accessibility, component design, and modern design workflows. Share best practices and foster a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and design excellence.
Core Design Competencies:Systems Thinking
Recognizes patterns across products and translates them into scalable, reusable design solutions that improve consistency and efficiency.
Leverages research, experimentation, accessibility, and iterative design methods to create high-quality components and system patterns that solve broad organizational needs.
Makes thoughtful trade-offs between consistency, flexibility, usability, technical feasibility, and business priorities while maintaining a high bar for craft.
Continuously explores emerging AI technologies and design workflows, thoughtfully integrating new capabilities that improve designer productivity, system quality, and organizational effectiveness.
Understands how Design Systems drive business value by improving product quality, accelerating delivery, reducing design and engineering effort, and enabling scalable growth.
About YouShipt Values:
Drive: Proactively push forward, overcoming obstacles and seeing tasks through to completion.
Rally: Collaborate effectively, playing to team strengths and focusing on high-priority work.
Positivity: Maintain an optimistic energy that uplifts the team and embraces challenges.
Authenticity: Bring your whole self to work, fostering an inclusive environment that values transparency and diverse perspectives.
Caring: Stay attuned to others, tailoring your approach and speaking up for the team's well-being.
Required Skills & Experience:Design Competencies
Expertise in Design Systems, Component Design, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Visual Design, Design Foundations, Design Tokens, Accessibility, User Frameworks & Psychology, Systems Thinking, Prototyping, Documentation, and Cross-Platform Design.
Demonstrated fluency with the latest generative AI tools and evolving design technologies. Actively evaluates and integrates AI into design system workflows, component creation, documentation, prototyping, design-to-code workflows, and team productivity. Brings curiosity, experimentation, and a continuous learning mindset to help shape the future of design at Shipt.
Strong understanding of modern front-end development principles, component libraries, design tokens, responsive design, and developer handoff processes. Experience partnering closely with engineering teams throughout implementation.
Advanced proficiency in Figma (Variables, Component Properties, Auto Layout, Libraries, Dev Mode) is required.
4+ years of Product Design experience with demonstrated expertise in Design Systems, platform design, or highly scalable product experiences.
Additional Expectations:Ego
None. You work with humility, value feedback, and prioritize the success of the Design System and product teams over individual ownership.
You are recognized as a trusted design partner who elevates design quality across teams through collaboration, mentorship, and thoughtful decision-making.
Coach designers on systems thinking, accessibility, component design, AI-assisted workflows, and best practices. Help grow design maturity across the organization.
Participate in recruiting efforts, portfolio reviews, and interviews. Help identify exceptional talent while raising the bar for design craft, systems thinking, collaboration, and innovation.
Why Join Shipt?Join Shipt's Design Systems team and help shape the foundation that powers every product experience we build. You'll influence how hundreds of designers and engineers create products, champion accessibility and design quality at scale, and help define how AI transforms the future of product design. If you're passionate about systems thinking, design craft, and building tools that multiply the impact of others, we'd love to have you on our team.
Pay Range: $134,000 - $190,000
Please note that the salary range above is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location.
Skills & EducationThis list includes key skills used in this job but is not inclusive of all skills needed for the role. Please see any required education below.
Core Design, Design, Design Systems, Product Design, System Designs
Work Arrangement
To foster connection while offering continued flexibility, hybrid team members have the following in-office expectations:
Hybrid roles in Birmingham, AL typically work in-office at least 2 days per week, with core in-office days on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Hybrid roles in Minneapolis, MN typically work in-office at least 1 day per week on either Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.
Hybrid roles in San Francisco, CA typically work in-office at least 1 day per week between Monday and Thursday.
Certain roles may require in-office presence on a full-time basis. Please work with your recruiter to learn more about the classification of this role.
About ShiptShipt is a retail tech company that connects people to reliable, high-quality delivery with a personal touch. Shipt connects customers to the things they want from the stores they love, retail businesses to more satisfied customers, and workers to new earning opportunities.
At Shipt, we aim to put our team first to boost a sense of belonging, spark opportunities for growth, provide unique benefits and commit to giving back to our communities in ways that make life better, both personally and professionally. We understand that our service, our culture, and our connection to our communities are only made better by every single person who shows up to work here every day. Learn More.
Shipt is an independently operated, wholly owned subsidiary of Target Corporation and available in more than 5,000 U.S. cities. Shipt was founded and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. For more information, please visit Shipt’s company site at Shipt.com.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection if you need a reasonable accommodation. If you need assistance filling out a job application, please complete this form.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Employees (and eligible family members) are covered by medical, dental, vision and more. Employees may enroll in our company’s 401k plan. Employees will also be eligible to receive discretionary vacation for exempt team members, paid holidays throughout the calendar year and paid sick leave. Other compensation includes eligibility for an annual bonus and the potential for restricted stock units based on role.
Skills Required
- 4+ years of Product Design experience with demonstrated expertise in Design Systems or platform-scale products
- Expertise in Design Systems, Component Design, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Visual Design, Design Foundations, and Accessibility
- Advanced proficiency in Figma (Variables, Component Properties, Auto Layout, Libraries, Dev Mode)
- Demonstrated fluency with generative AI tools and experience integrating AI into design workflows
- Strong understanding of modern front-end development principles, component libraries, design tokens, responsive design, and developer handoff
- Experience mentoring designers and influencing cross-functional teams (Design, Product, Engineering, Accessibility)
- Experience establishing governance, contribution models, documentation standards, and measuring design system adoption
Shipt Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Shipt and has not been reviewed or approved by Shipt.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Pay is described as reaching higher hourly ranges on strong-tipping days, particularly when stacking well-tipped orders and cultivating repeat “preferred” customers. Flexibility is also positioned as a meaningful non-cash reward for those using the work as supplemental income.
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Healthcare Strength — Corporate employee benefits are described as robust, including multiple medical plan options alongside dental and vision coverage. Company-paid therapy/coaching sessions and telehealth are also included as part of the healthcare offering.
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What We Do
Shipt is a retail tech company that connects people to reliable, high-quality delivery with a personal touch. Through the power of technology, Shipt connects customers to the things they want from the stores they love, workers to new earning opportunities, and retail businesses to more satisfied customers. Headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, Shipt brings people the flexible solutions they need with the above-and-beyond service they expect. Shipt is an independently operated subsidiary of Target Corp. and available in more than 5,000 U.S. cities. For more information, please visit Shipt's Newsroom.
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