Staff Product Designer

Cherry

Staff Product Designer at Cherry overseeing design system and production code, ensuring cohesive product experiences across platforms. Working closely with design and engineering teams for development purposes.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

React

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the full design system: Figma component library, React component codebase, interaction patterns, tokens, and documentation
Write, ship, and maintain production React code with strong code hygiene, testing practices, and clear architecture
Define the interaction and visual design language for Cherry's component library, ensuring every component is crafted with precision
Build components that are robust, flexible, and scalable, enabling teams to ship cohesive experiences without reinventing patterns
Work fluently across design and engineering tools, including Figma or Pencil, and AI-assisted development tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex
Bridge the gap between design and engineering workflows, ensuring the system works seamlessly in both environments
Establish workflows that allow the design system to evolve quickly while maintaining quality and consistency
Build toward a future where every team at Cherry can prototype rapidly using production-ready components
Partner closely with our front-end engineering team in Turkey on component architecture, implementation, and code review
Work with the broader engineering org to ensure components are easy to adopt, well-documented, and production-ready
Serve the product design team as their primary design system partner, understanding what they need and guiding them in how to use and contribute to the system
Enable product designers to work within the system confidently, making changes and building with components rather than working around them
Own the strategy for how Cherry's design system scales, both the component library and the processes around it
Define the roadmap for new components, pattern evolution, and system-level improvements
Ensure the system reduces experience risk across all five products, so that using Cherry's components naturally produces cohesive, high-quality output regardless of the surface
Advocate for the long-term health of the system, balancing team requests with architectural integrity and scalability

Requirements

What you’ll need

5-8+ years of experience spanning product design and front-end engineering, with demonstrated strength in both disciplines
Deep proficiency in React, with strong opinions on component architecture, testing, and code quality
Expert-level skills in design tools like Figma or Pencil, including component design, variants, tokens, and design system management
A sharp eye for visual and interaction design: spacing, motion, hierarchy, and the details that make components feel polished
Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex, and an eagerness to integrate them into design system workflows
Experience building and maintaining a design system that's used by multiple teams in production
Strong understanding of front-end testing practices and code hygiene
The ability to work across disciplines, communicating fluently with designers, engineers, and product leaders
Experience collaborating with distributed or international engineering teams

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work arrangements

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Hard Skills & Tools

Reactcomponent architecturecode qualitydesign system managementfront-end testing practicescode hygieneinteraction designvisual designcomponent designprototyping

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingattention to detailcross-disciplinary workadvocacyguidanceflexibilityleadership