Design Systems Lead

Imprint Technologies Inc.

Job Overview

Location

New York City

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Define and drive the long-term vision and roadmap for Imprint's design system, balancing immediate product needs with long-term platform investments
• Partner deeply with Product Design, Engineering, Product Management, and AI teams to ensure system components are scalable, maintainable, production-ready, and aligned to shared priorities
• Establish governance, contribution models, and decision-making frameworks that give product teams a shared source of truth and let them move faster without sacrificing quality or consistency
• Evolve the design system beyond traditional Figma libraries and Storybook documentation toward machine-readable, AI-consumable foundations that connect design tooling, code generation, and AI-assisted development
• Mentor a small team of design systems designers and partner with developers, raising the bar on systems thinking, prioritization, and ownership across the group
• Stay hands-on by contributing directly to component architecture, documentation, patterns, and guidelines, and by leading complex initiatives from strategy through execution

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of product design experience, including significant design systems ownership and experience leading or managing design systems teams
• Demonstrated success building and scaling design systems used across multiple product teams in a production environment
• Deep understanding of component architecture, design tokens, accessibility standards, and design-to-development workflows
• Strong product judgment with the ability to prioritize high-impact work and make tradeoffs between near-term product needs and long-term system investments
• Experience partnering closely with frontend engineers and engineering leadership to ship system components that are actually adopted and trusted
• Comfort working in a fast-moving startup environment where you own both the strategy and the execution, and where the system needs to evolve continuously
• Excellent ability to communicate and influence across functions, including educating and advocating for design systems with teams that haven't worked with one before

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity packages
• Leading configured work computers of your choice
• Flexible paid time off
• Fully covered, high-quality healthcare, including fully covered dependent coverage
• 20 weeks of paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 8 weeks for all new parents

Skills & Technologies

TypeScript

React

Senior

Onsite

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About Imprint Technologies Inc.

Imprint Technologies Inc. operates a platform that lets brands issue co-branded payment cards and financial products directly to consumers. The company manages card program setup, underwriting, compliance, and ongoing servicing while providing APIs and dashboards for partners to configure rewards, launch cards, and track performance. Focused on embedded finance, Imprint serves consumer brands, marketplaces, and fintechs seeking white-label card solutions without building banking infrastructure.

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