Staff Product Designer - Design Systems

The Trellis Design System team is leading a multi-year modernization of HubSpot’s core design system at a pivotal moment: interaction paradigms are shifting rapidly with AI.

Today’s transitional Trellis library includes 300+ components and years of fragmentation across hundreds of downstream platform libraries. Many lack documentation, ownership, or alignment. Our mission is not just to modernize a library — it’s to rebuild horizontal infrastructure for the entire HubSpot platform.

As a Staff Product Designer focused on Design Systems, you’ll:

• Validate our future vision for the platform with users
• Reduce the core component footprint from 300+ to ~60 scalable primitives and reusable components
• Establish parity between Figma, documentation, and React code
• Embed accessibility, internationalization, RTL, and model-connected contracts directly into component APIs
• Create governance, scalable workflows and cross-team decision frameworks to prevent further fragmentation through modernization pilots with key platform teams
• Invest heavily in automation and emerging tooling to accelerate us

The goal: deliver a truly self-serve, modernized design system by the end of 2026 that product teams trust and adopt by default.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Designing cross-platform components and patterns and operationalizing workflows
• Partnering with platform teams through modernization pilots
• Defining component APIs and architectural boundaries
• Creating documentation, specs, and adoption frameworks
• Facilitating workshops and governance rituals
• Collaborating closely with engineering on scalable implementation
• Driving consolidation and deprecation campaigns across the platform

What You’ll Bring

Required Qualifications

• Significant experience designing and evolving complex design systems or component libraries at scale.
• Deep expertise in UX patterns, interaction models, and information architecture for enterprise or multi-product platforms.
• Proven track record of leading modernization or system-wide initiatives without direct management authority.
• Experience partnering closely with engineering teams on implementation details, governance models, and scalable processes.
• Strong relationship-building skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders across multiple product areas.
• Experience turning exploratory pilots into operationalized frameworks, playbooks, and backlog-ready initiatives.
• A systems-thinking mindset with the ability to balance immediate product needs and long-term platform health.
• A portfolio demonstrating high-quality craft, strategic thinking, and measurable impact across complex surfaces.

Pay & Benefits

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Annual Cash Compensation Range:$210,000—$336,000 USD