Product Design Systems Engineer
Groupon
React
Senior Design System Designer
GlossGenius
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $180,000 - $215,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
React
About the role
- Define and evolve the long-term vision and roadmap for the design system in alignment with product, design, and engineering priorities
- Lead conversations around governance, contribution models, and scaling strategy to ensure sustainable system growth
- Partner with engineers to ensure consistent and correct implementation of components and patterns across products
- Translate interface guidelines into robust, reusable components and act as a bridge between design and engineering
- Establish and uphold accessibility standards; audit, test, and collaborate with QA/engineering to meet or exceed WCAG guidelines
- Own and maintain system documentation, usage guidelines, and changelogs to support adoption
- Proactively educate teams on system updates and best practices through workshops, demos, and internal tooling
- Collaborate with and support senior and staff designers and engineers contributing to the system
- Act as a mentor and resource for accessibility and system architecture
- Report directly to the Head of Design
- Operate in a hybrid environment, commutable to NYC HQ, with 2 days per week in the office (Tuesdays & Thursdays)
Requirements
- 5+ years experience in product design, front-end engineering, or design systems roles
- Deep understanding of design tokens, component libraries, and documentation systems (e.g., Storybook, Zeroheight)
- Advanced knowledge of accessibility best practices (WCAG, ARIA) and experience implementing them at scale
- Comfortable working across React or similar front-end frameworks
- Strategic thinker with strong systems design sensibility and operational know-how
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to bring clarity across disciplines
- Experience collaborating with design ops, brand, and UX teams to drive cohesion
- Bonus: experience with contribution models, governance frameworks, or internal tooling
- Must be commutable to GlossGenius's NYC headquarters and operate in a hybrid environment with 2 days per week in the office (Tuesdays & Thursdays)
Benefits
- Flexible PTO
- Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums partially covered by GG
- Fertility and adoption benefits via Carrot and Kindbody
- Generous, fully-paid parental leave policy
- 401k benefit - employees are eligible to contribute starting day 1 of employment
- Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Dependent Care FSA
- Home office stipend
- Team Bonding: opportunities to gather in person and virtually throughout the year
- Eligible to participate in GlossGenius’s equity plan
- Starting base salary range stated as $180,000-$215,000 + target equity + benefits
- Range of health & wellbeing, retirement savings, and other benefits within total rewards offering
ATS Keywords
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Hard skills
product designfront-end engineeringdesign systemsdesign tokenscomponent librariesdocumentation systemsaccessibility best practicesReactWCAGARIA
Soft skills
strategic thinkingsystems design sensibilityoperational know-howwritten communicationverbal communicationcollaborationmentorship
