Job Overview
Location
Remote (United States)
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
June 26, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Own and drive Kin’s design token architecture across color, typography, spacing, and motion, establishing primitive, semantic, and component tokens as the single source of truth for design and code.
- • Audit existing component libraries and live product experiences using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) to map gaps, drift, and inconsistencies, generating a data-backed plan to unify and streamline the design system.
- • Establish and maintain Figma-to-code parity by partnering with engineering on the pipeline from design tokens to implemented, documented components.
- • Introduce new components and patterns thoughtfully as Kin expands into new product domains (e.g., auto insurance, flood insurance, home financing), ensuring the system grows with intention rather than sprawl.
- • Define and implement the contribution model and governance for the design system, including versioning, changelogs, intake processes, and quality bars, with automated guardrails to prevent fragmentation.
- • Build and maintain the canonical reference for Kin’s design patterns, replacing disparate tools with a single source of truth accessible to all teams.
- • Advocate for accessibility in all components by embedding automated testing and AI-assisted audits to proactively identify and resolve compliance gaps.
- • Partner across Product, Engineering, and embedded domain designers to make the design system the easiest path to a cohesive, on-brand experience across all customer-facing and internal surfaces.
- • Drive adoption of the design system through influence across a federated, domain-based organization without relying on positional authority.
- • Operate in ambiguity to build structure where none exists, leading 0-to-1 initiatives that scale across internal tools, customer apps, and multi-brand surfaces without fragmentation.
- • Leverage AI tools to accelerate manual tasks, automate documentation, and speed up the design-to-code feedback loop.
- • Ensure new product surfaces inherit consistency by default, eliminating the need for retroactive design rework to meet brand standards.
- • Maintain alignment between engineering and design on a shared token structure with a clear rollout approach for updating shared components without breaking downstream consumers.
- • Document and institutionalize the contribution and governance model so teams know how to request from and extend the system without routing around it.
- • Ensure the design system enables AI and human designers to generate Kin-consistent visual outputs from a unified foundation.
🎯 Requirements
- • 7+ years of significant visual and product design experience with a meaningful focus on design systems work
- • Deep fluency in token architecture (primitive, semantic, component) and mastery of Figma (variables, libraries, modes)
- • Proven track record of taking a design system from audit through architecture to adoption, treating it as a product, not a deliverable
- • Proven ability to leverage AI tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) to automate documentation and accelerate design-to-code workflows
- • Ability to influence without authority across a federated organization
- • Comfort operating in ambiguous, 0-to-1 environments where structure must be built from scratch
🏖️ Benefits
- • Competitive salary and company equity through Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- • Eligibility for annual compensation through the Kin Leadership Incentive Plan
- • 401(k) with company match up to 4% of eligible earnings
- • Multiple medical, dental, and vision plan options
- • Company-funded HSA contributions based on medical plan selection
- • Company-paid life insurance and short-term disability
- • Flexible PTO (most employees take 15–20 days/year) plus 8 company-observed holidays
- • Paid parental leave: up to 14 weeks at 100% pay for birthing parents, 8 weeks at 100% pay for non-birthing parents
- • Access to mental health support and confidential counseling resources
- • Professional development budget for certifications, conferences, and learning
- • Employee referral bonuses
- • Supplemental benefits including long-term disability, critical illness, accident, legal, and pet insurance
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About Kin Insurance, Inc.
Kin Insurance is a direct-to-consumer home insurance technology company that uses data and analytics to offer affordable coverage to homeowners in catastrophe-prone regions. Licensed in multiple states, it provides policies underwritten by partner carriers and its own risk-bearing entity, focusing on wind, hail, hurricane and wildfire exposures. Customers purchase, manage and file claims entirely online or via mobile app, reducing administrative overhead and allowing rapid pricing and binding. Headquartered in Chicago, the company also operates a Florida-domiciled carrier, Kin Interinsurance Network, to retain risk and maintain rate and form control.
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