Principal Designer, Design Systems
Ibotta is seeking a Principal Designer, Design Systems to join our innovative team and contribute to our mission to Make Every Purchase Rewarding. You will build a design system that lets designers, engineers, and AI agents produce consistent, high-quality product experiences by default. We are looking for a lead designer to set its direction and design it, working alongside a UI designer who builds it in code. The system exists today as a Figma library approaching parity with our products, and is meant to grow into a shared foundation across everything Ibotta builds. The goal is to raise the quality floor without slowing teams down, leaving designers more room to craft the experiences that matter most. Ibotta has a suite of software tools that touch multiple surfaces and users. As we continue to grow and scale our products we need a design system that scales with them and allows for both human and AI agent workflows to use the system.
This position is located in Denver, Colorado as a hybrid position requiring 3 days in office (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). Candidates must live in the United States.
Not based in Denver? We will offer a relocation bonus to help make your move to the Mile High City a smooth one.
What You Will Be Doing
- Own the system's direction. Decide what to keep, change, or retire based on what builders and customers need, and hold the line on craft as the system grows. Own the roadmap, contribution model, versioning, release process, and documentation.
- Design the foundations and components, covering the states beyond the happy path (empty, loading, error), with accessibility and motion built in from the start
- Define the governance model for how components are proposed, reviewed, accepted, and deprecated.
- Partner with the UI Designer and with engineering so the syst...
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