Staff Product Designer - Design Systems

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

This position can work out of our New York City or San Francisco office. At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

LinkedIn’s vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our global Product Design team advances this vision through quality, inclusive design. We're passionate about designing an equal, fair, and accessible platform that’s modern, engaging, and responsible.

Why join the Design Systems team at LinkedIn?

The Design Systems team at LinkedIn offers an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge initiatives that drive a cohesive, high-quality, and scalable user experience across the platform. Team members collaborate on modernizing LinkedIn's product design, utilizing a flexible frontend platform, and exploring AI-powered tools and prototypes to enhance design quality and efficiency. With its focus on innovation, product modernization, and leveraging advanced technologies, the team provides a unique chance to shape the future of LinkedIn's user experience.

Responsibilities:

• Manage, evolve, and document the LinkedIn Design System
• Design, refine, and maintain high-quality UI components across multiple platforms
• Create, document, and evangelize UX patterns and best practices
• Partner with designers, engineers, researchers, and accessibility experts to ensure inclusive and accessible design
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to integrate design system components and patterns into product development
• Contribute to prototyping and experimentation with emerging tools, including AI-assisted design workflows
• Uphold quality standards and promote consistency across all LinkedIn products

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 6+ years of professional experience in Product Design, with direct hands-on work in Design Systems
• Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent professional experience
• Strong expertise in Figma (variables, libraries, tokens, and system architecture)
• Proven ability to design and document reusable components and UX patterns
• Experience with accessibility standards and inclusive design practices
• Solid understanding of systems thinking and product design execution
• Proven experience in managing product migration from an existing design system to a new version

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience collaborating with software engineers on UI frameworks and implementation
• Familiarity with front-end technologies and ability to bridge design and engineering
• Experience working on accessibility-focused projects
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence cross-functional partners
• Enthusiasm for exploring new design tools and workflows, including AI-assisted design

Suggested Skills:

• Design Systems Architecture and Management

• Systems Thinking

• Accessibility and Inclusive Design

• Product Design Execution

• Software Engineering Collaboration

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $151,000 to $246,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful. If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at accommodations@linkedin.com.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pay Transparency Policy Statement As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described here: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.

Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.

Additional Information

Equal Opportunity Statement

We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.

LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at accommodations@linkedin.com and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.

Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:

• Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
• Having interviews in an accessible location
• Being accompanied by a service dog
• Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview

A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance ​

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pay Transparency Policy Statement ​

As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.

Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates ​

Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.