Calendly
Staff Product Designer, Design Systems
Job Summary
The role involves owning and leading the company's Design System, focusing on improving scalability, usability, and accessibility across multiple products. The candidate should have over 10 years of experience with high-quality design systems and demonstrate strong UI, UX, and visual design skills. Collaboration with cross-functional teams and conducting user research to inform design decisions are key responsibilities. The position offers opportunities for impact, career growth, and working alongside a talented team in a dynamic environment.
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About the team & opportunity
We're looking for a Staff Product Designer to own and lead our Design System. You’ll impact millions of users through building a system that scales quality, usability, and accessibility across our growing suite of products. As a key player in shaping the user experience, your work will directly impact our users' satisfaction and the success of our products.
We believe that great design starts with talking with our users and that the best solutions come from interdisciplinary collaboration. You’ll be part of Calendly’s incredible Design team, collaborating with Product Designers, Content Designers, UX Researchers, and a dedicated Frontend Engineering team.
A day in the life of a Staff Product Designer owning Design Systems at Calendly
On a typical day, you will:
- Own and lead our Design System, improving the foundation and introducing new components, patterns, and tools.
- Improve and scale quality, usability, consistency, and accessibility across our products.
- Collaborate with Designers, Engineers, Content Designers, Researchers and leadership to align Design Systems work to user needs, company strategy, and the product roadmap.
- Conduct and collaborate on user research to test usability and iterate based on user feedback.
- Build useful processes and tools for internal teams, including creating and maintaining libraries, patterns, templates in Figma.
- Champion product excellence, coaching designers and stakeholders on best practices, including being a key participant in design crits.
- Advocate for accessibility and inclusion through the Design System, in order to make our product accessible to a diverse range of users.
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years relevant experience, delivering high quality and impactful design systems across growing, multi-product companies.
- A strong portfolio of work showcasing the design systems you’ve developed.
- Outstanding UI, UX and visual design craft, with attention to detail.
- A systems thinking mindset that understands how to scale impact.
- Ability to balance business goals, team process, and user needs.
- Ability to distill complex problems into simple and understandable solutions, and effectively communicate those solutions to both leaders and peers.
- Authorized to work lawfully in the United States of America as Calendly does not engage in immigration sponsorship at this time.
What’s in it for you
Ready to make a serious impact? Millions of people already rely on Calendly’s products, and we’re still in the midst of our growth curve — it’s a fantastic time to join us. Everything you’ll work on here will accelerate your career to the next level. If you want to learn, grow, and do the best work of your life alongside the best people you’ve ever worked with, then we hope you’ll consider allowing Calendly to be a part of your professional journey.
If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the application or recruiting process, please contact us at [email protected].
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The ranges listed below are the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change.
Calendly takes a number of factors into consideration when determining an employee’s starting salary, including relevant experience, relevant skills sets, interview performance, location/metropolitan area, and internal pay equity.
Base salary is just one component of Calendly’s total rewards package. All full-time (30 hours/week) employees are also eligible for our Quarterly Corporate Bonus program (or Sales incentive), equity awards, and competitive benefits.
Calendly uses the zip code of an employee’s remote work location, or the onsite building location if hybrid, to determine which metropolitan pay range we use. Current geographic zones are as follows:
- Tier 1: San Francisco, CA, San Jose, CA, New York City, NY
- Tier 2: Chicago, IL, Austin, TX, Denver, CO, Boston, MA, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, PA, Portland, OR, Seattle, WA, Miami, FL, and all other cities in CA.
- Tier 3: All other locations not in Tier 1 or Tier 2
Calendly
Be a part of Calendly's mission to improve the quality of every relationship building interaction! It’s a fantastic time to supercharge your career and join us, we’re in the midst of Calendly’s growth curve, and you’ll do the best work of your life.
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