Staff Design Systems Engineer

ClickUp

Staff Design Systems Engineer at ClickUp developing AI-first design systems and workflows. Collaborating across design and research to enhance efficiency and quality in product operations.

Posted 5/22/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $190,000 - $230,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and evolve design systems with AI-first workflows that 10x EPD efficiency.
Go deep on how designers and researchers actually work: recruiting participants, synthesizing interviews, maintaining design systems, generating specs, tracking projects.
Identify the highest-leverage friction points and rebuild those workflows from the ground up using AI.
Ship agents, scripts, and integrations that compound team capacity.
Turn automate-able tasks into background processes.
Build Super Agents for ops work, use AI coding assistants for integrations across Figma, research repos, and component libraries, and create systems that handle the work without anyone needing to think about it.
Contribute to strategic improvement of team quality and efficiency.

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years in design systems, design engineering, design operations, research operations, or technical program management at a fast-paced company
Active use of LLMs such as Claude or ChatGPT in your actual workflow. You have AI projects you're excited to share!
Experience with modern design and research tooling ecosystems (Figma, design tokens, component libraries, research repos, prototyping tools) and a strong point of view on where they're headed
Strong technical fluency: APIs, automation platforms, and the ability to wire systems together
An eye for design and research quality. You don't have to be a designer or researcher, but you recognize great craft and care about the details that separate good from exceptional
Ability to manage multiple high-urgency projects simultaneously across cross-functional teams
Excellent communication with a strong bias toward action. Find the problem, diagnose it, propose the fix, and ideally just fix it

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity
401k
Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
Spending accounts
Life & Disability
Paid parental leave
Flexible paid time off
Enhanced employee assistance program
Employee wellness stipend
Professional development stipend

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Hard Skills & Tools

design systemsdesign engineeringdesign operationsresearch operationstechnical program managementAPIsautomation platformsAI projectsFigmaprototyping tools

Soft Skills

communicationproject managementcross-functional collaborationproblem-solvingattention to detailstrategic improvementefficiency enhancementbias toward actionsynthesizing interviewsmaintaining design systems