UI Design System Lead

In this role, you will lead the design system for SharkNinja’s DTC and ecommerce experiences, creating scalable UI foundations and governance. You’ll partner with design, engineering and product to ensure consistency, accessibility, and high-quality delivery across digital touchpoints. You’ll act as a design-system expert, enabling teams to ship faster through reusable components and robust documentation. This is a chance to shape a world-class, AI-informed design culture while driving measurable improvements in product velocity and user experience.

• health insurance
• retirement plans
• paid time off
• employee stock purchase options
• wellness programs
• product discounts

• Own and evolve the UI design system for DTC properties, ensuring scalability and adoption
• Define and maintain design tokens, component libraries, patterns and guidelines
• Audit and improve the design system for product needs, accessibility, and best practices
• Balance consistency with flexibility, setting standards while allowing market and product judgment
• Design, build and maintain a library of reusable UI components for web and digital touchpoints
• Use Figma variables and token structures to map designs to coded components
• Collaborate with front-end engineers to ensure accurate implementation and governance
• Act as primary SME for the design system across design, engineering and product
• Create documentation, guidelines and training to enable system adoption
• Champion design-system usage across all DTC projects and align cross-functional teams
• Establish governance processes for versioning, contributions and reviews
• Present design system updates and roadmap to senior stakeholders
• Ensure accessibility to WCAG 2.1 AA and inclusive user experiences
• Stay current with UI trends, tooling and accessibility requirements
• Maintain a mature, well-adopted system that accelerates delivery and maintains quality
• Support governance around standards, contribution, and decision making
• Communicate value of the design system to senior stakeholders
• Foster cross-functional alignment without relying on formal authority
• Balance standardization with product flexibility
• Deliver measurable improvements in design and development speed
• Ensure high levels of accessibility compliance across digital estate

• 5+ years in UX or Product Design with at least 3 years building or scaling design systems
• Proven experience building/scaling design systems in product-led organizations
• Expert in Figma: variables, architecture, auto layout and scalable libraries
• Strong knowledge mapping Figma variables and design tokens to production components
• Systems thinking with ability to identify patterns and scale solutions
• Experience defining design tokens, reusable components, patterns, documentation, and contributions
• Working knowledge of HTML/CSS and design-to-code handoff
• Strong WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility understanding applied to component design
• Ability to balance consistency and flexibility and influence without formal authority
• Comfort partnering with Engineering on tokens, libraries and handoff workflows
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills
• Experience in ecommerce, DTC or complex digital product environments preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Interaction Design or equivalent
• Nice-to-have: token pipelines, accessibility credentials, component-library tooling, Git familiarity
• Experience collaborating with Engineering on governance and code-level docs

• strong communication
• cross-functional influence
• detail-oriented
• Figma
• design tokens
• component libraries