Product Designer (Design Systems)

Join Grindr, the world's largest social networking app for the LGBTQ+ community, as a Product Designer specializing in Design Systems. In this role, you will own the development and ongoing refinement of Grindr's core design system, partner with product designers and engineers, and contribute strong visual design craft. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy in a lean environment and lead the integration of our design system with AI tools. Enjoy a range of benefits, including 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums, 401k matching, flexible PTO, equity for all employees, and more.

• Own the development, documentation, and ongoing refinement of Grindr's core design system, including components, tokens, patterns, and guidelines.
• Partner directly with product designers and engineers to ensure the design system is adopted consistently and evolves to meet real product needs.
• Lead the charge on integrating the design system with AI tools, leveraging new technologies to enhance the design process.
• Proficiency in Figma, including component architecture, variables, auto layout, and design token management
• 5+ years of product or visual design experience, with at least 2-3 years of focused design systems ownership - building or significantly evolving a system, not just contributing to one
• Demonstrated experience working in smaller or mid-size companies where you built or maintained systems with limited resources and without a dedicated systems team around you
• Track record of partnering with engineers to implement design systems in code - comfortable working across the design-to-development handoff
• Experience documenting systems clearly for audiences with varying levels of design fluency - product designers, engineers, and non-design stakeholders
• Strong visual design skills - typography, color, iconography, spacing, and motion - with a portfolio that shows craft alongside systems thinking
• Care as much about the quality of what the system produces as the quality of the system itself - visual craft and structural rigor are not in tension for you
• Are AI-native or rapidly becoming so - you actively use AI tools in your workflow and are always looking for new ways to leverage them
• Thrive in environments where you are the primary owner of a system, not one contributor among many - you make decisions, document them, and stand behind them
• Are energized by constraints - limited headcount, fast timelines, and high standards feel like the right conditions to do your best work, not obstacles to it