Senior Product Designer (Systems)

Role Overview

Senior Product Designer (Systems) at Revive Media. You’ll design and scale a design system and UX operating model so PMs and engineers can ship consistent, usable UI—while still providing targeted hands-on design for the highest-impact work.

Responsibilities

System Design & Standards (Primary)

• Own the design system and UX standards (components, patterns, content guidelines, accessibility).
• Use AI-assisted tooling (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Figma Make, V0 or similar) to scale standards such as specs, checklists, component usage guidance, and critique rubrics.
• Define “how we design here” with lightweight processes for discovery, critique, handoff, and iteration in a remote-first environment.
• Create reusable patterns for core workflows so new features feel cohesive and scalable.

Product Understanding & Proactive Discovery

• Build deep context through recurring research, shadowing, and synthesis.
• Identify experience gaps and propose improvements proactively.

Enablement: Raise the Bar Across PMs & Engineering

• Coach less experienced PMs on problem framing, requirements quality, and UX partnership best practices.
• Partner with engineering leads to make standards easy to adopt (components, examples, checklists).
• Run a scalable review cadence (design critiques + office hours + lightweight design QA).

Strong Opinions, Loosely Held

• Push for simpler, more elegant solutions with user-centered rationale.
• Disagree constructively with stakeholders when needed.

Targeted Hands-On Design

• Execute high-impact work in Figma (flows, prototypes, high-fidelity UI) where your time creates outsized leverage.
• Support one or two squads and feed their needs back into the systems, practices, and standards you build.

First 90 Days (What to Expect)

• Month 1: Learn platform/user workflows, run interviews/shadowing, identify top UX/system gaps.
• Month 2: Ship a high-impact workflow improvement and publish v1 standards (patterns + critique/handoff process).
• Month 3: Expand the design system and enablement (PM training + engineering adoption) and align on a 3–6 month UX roadmap.

Requirements

• 7+ years product design experience with a portfolio demonstrating systems thinking and business impact.
• Proven ability to set standards and enable cross-functional teams to ship consistently great UX.
• Strong proficiency in Figma and experience building/evolving design systems.
• Experience using AI-assisted tooling to scale design standards (specs, heuristics, critique templates, or documentation).
• Strong product instincts: quickly learn complex workflows and translate ambiguity into clear direction.
• Ability to give/receive direct feedback and influence outcomes through constructive disagreement.
• Front-end engineering background or significant coding experience (preferred).
• Experience coaching PMs/engineers (implied/strongly valued).