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Design Systems Lead

About the roleWe're seeking a Design Systems Lead with extensive experience owning design systems at large organizations. You'll bootstrap an intuitive semantic token system that supports design and product teams across multiple platforms a

Company

Perplexity

Location

San Francisco; Remote (United States); New York City

Status

Open

Posted

2026-07-09T23:45:58.153+00:00

Perplexity is hiring a Design Systems Lead to bootstrap and own a semantic token system across mobile, web and React surfaces. The role is an even split between design and engineering: the person owns the system's GitHub repo, including versioning and releases, stays fluent in Figma, sets visual quality standards, runs contribution and governance, writes documentation and drives adoption. It asks for extensive design systems experience at large organizations, WCAG knowledge and comfort adopting new AI tooling. Hybrid, in San Francisco, New York City or remote in the United States.