Principal System Designer
SurePayroll
full-time
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Location: Arizona, Florida, Illinois, New York, Ohio • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
About the role
- Lead the vision, strategy, and ongoing evolution of Paychex design system—components, patterns, accessibility, documentation, and tooling.
- Own and manage the design system roadmap and backlog in collaboration with engineering and product partners.
- Fluency in AI tools that accelerate design system development (Builderio, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Uizard, Contrast, Stark).
- Define system governance models and contribute to scalable design ops processes that drive adoption and consistency across teams.
- Collaborate with front-end engineers to ensure seamless integration between design and code and maintain parity across Figma and component libraries.
- Facilitate contribution models from product teams and coordinate system releases and change management efforts.
- Serve as an advocate and subject matter expert for design systems across the organization—evangelizing its value and mentoring designers on implementation.
- Continuously audit and refine the system to improve usability, accessibility, and efficiency.
- Partner with accessibility, brand, and UX research leads to ensure the system reflects inclusive and research-backed design standards.
- Deliver high-quality documentation and internal education materials to support adoption and understanding across disciplines.
- Identify, evaluate, and implement tooling and workflows that enable better collaboration between design and development.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Design, HCI, Computer Science, or a related field - Required
- Master's Degree in Design, HCI, Computer Science, or a related field - Preferred
- 8 years of experience in in product design
- 3 years of experience in focused on design systems at scale
- Fluency in AI tools that accelerate design system development (Builderio, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Uizard)
- Experience with AI-powered accessibility testing (Contrast, Stark)
- Experience defining components, patterns, accessibility, documentation, and tooling for design systems
- Experience collaborating with front-end engineers to maintain parity across Figma and component libraries
- Experience defining governance models and scalable design ops processes
- Experience facilitating contribution models, coordinating releases, and change management
- Experience mentoring designers and evangelizing design systems
- Strong focus on usability, accessibility, and inclusive, research-backed design standards