Staff Designer (Design Systems)

Join PermitFlow as our first Design Systems Designer and Architect. In this role, you will build and refine Cornerstone, our design system that serves as the foundation for our product's visual and interaction design. You will work closely with engineering leadership to design, ship, and iterate on components, patterns, and tokens. This is not a maintenance role; you will be establishing the standards for our next stage of product complexity. You will also have the opportunity to grow a team around this practice as Cornerstone's footprint expands.

• Establishing the standards for PermitFlow's next stage of product complexity and building Cornerstone, the visual and interaction foundation.
• Building and continually refining Cornerstone's core building blocks, components, patterns, and tokens designed for complex, workflow-heavy, AI-enabled experiences.
• Setting a multi-year direction for the design system and turning it into a roadmap that design, engineering, and product leadership can develop in concert.
• Clear communication about system tradeoffs, whether you're talking to designers, engineers, or executives
• A portfolio with real point of view, not just system diagrams: craft, quality, accessibility, and visual cohesion are all a must
• Mastery of Figma, Notion, and Linear; actively experimenting with the next best tool to add to our stack
• A track record of setting & reinforcing accessibility standards
• A history of working shoulder to shoulder with frontend engineers to ship production-grade systems, not just handing off specs and moving on
• 10+ years in product design, with meaningful ownership of a design system across a multi-product environment; brand or visual design background is a plus
• Strong command of component architecture, design tokens, and what it takes for a system to total adoption across teams and surfaces