Lead Product Designer - Design Systems

As the Lead Product Designer, Design Systems, you are responsible for defining, evolving, and scaling our design system to ensure cohesive, accessible, and high-quality experiences across our product ecosystem. This role focuses on being a thought leader and hands-on builder of the foundational components, patterns, and guidelines that empower product teams to move faster while raising the bar for craft, consistency, and brand integrity.

As a senior individual contributor and design leader, you will partner with product, engineering, brand, and system leadership to translate system strategy into production-ready solutions. You will raise design standards, bring vision into practice, and mentor others in designing with systems at scale.

About the role 

• Lead the evolution of the company’s design system, creating a shared set of elements that are flexible across web and mobile platforms.

• Design and maintain scalable components, tokens, patterns, and system documentation.

• Partner with engineering to deliver high-quality, performant libraries, tooling, and documentation.

• Champion accessibility, inclusivity, and localization within the design system.

• Advocate for high-quality design craft by raising visual and interaction standards across the organization.

• Enable and educate product teams through documentation, workshops, critiques, and hands-on collaboration.

• Partner with product, engineering, brand, and marketing teams to encourage adoption and alignment.

• Mentor designers and influence the broader organization by promoting systems thinking as a core design capability.

• Continuously identify gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities to improve the system as products evolve.

About you 

Minimum Qualifications  

• 7+ years of experience in product, visual, or systems design, including significant ownership of design systems.

• Deep expertise building and scaling design systems in complex, multi-product environments.

• Strong systems thinking - you see patterns, anticipate edge cases, and design for scale.

• Hands-on experience designing and maintaining component libraries in tools like Figma and Storybook.

• You stay up to date and have experience with the latest design system features, tooling and benchmarks, including emerging AI-assisted design and development workflows (e.g., MCP, Code Connect, Figma Make, v0).

• Strong understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design principles.

• Experience collaborating closely with Engineering to deliver production-ready components.

• Ability to translate complex system requirements into clear, usable patterns and documentation.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate system decisions and influence adoption.

• Familiarity with front-end technologies and constraints (e.g., CSS, component-based frameworks like React or Angular, and design tokens).

What you’ll get 

Our team members fuel our strategy, innovation and growth, so we ensure the health and well-being of not just you, but your family, too! We go above and beyond to give you the support you need on an individual level and offer all sorts of ways to help you live your best life. We are proud to offer eligible team members perks and health benefits that will help you have peace of mind. Simply put: We’ve got your back. Check out our full list of Benefits and Perks.

About us 

Rocket Mortgage® was founded in 1985. Today, we’re a Detroit-based, publicly traded company with a mission to Help Everyone Home. At Rocket Mortgage, we believe that home is more than the house you live in. Our wide variety of home loan options, tools and resources empower our clients to achieve their homeownership dreams. We’re known as experts in the mortgage industry, but we’re also innovators – we strive to create the best experiences for our clients from beginning to end. And we’re not your typical employer. We’re insistently different in how we look at the world and are committed to an inclusive workplace where every voice is heard. Apply today to join a team that offers career growth, amazing benefits and the chance to work with leading industry professionals. 

This job description is an outline of the primary responsibilities of this position and may be modified at the discretion of the company at any time.  Decisions related to employment are not based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.  The company provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable state and federal laws.  Applicants requiring reasonable accommodations in completing the application and/or participating in the application process should contact a member of the Human Resources team, at [email protected].