Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
Design and iterate on Anduril’s design system, Matter, and drive alignment across teams. Requires 5+ years of product design experience.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Design and iterate upon Matter, Anduril’s design system, across primitives, tokens, components, patterns, and guidelines.
- Establish governance practices and frameworks that balance platform scaling with program-specific needs.
- Effectively manage Matter implementation and drive alignment by clearly communicating system strategy, priorities, and progress to leadership, designers, and engineers.
- Partner across teams to identify gaps and design scalable solutions that maximize adoption and consistency.
- Unify the visual and interaction direction for Anduril software across web, mobile, XR, and emerging platforms.
- Ensure the system embodies quality, craft, and accessibility while grounded in operational realities.
- Manage transitions from deprecated patterns or tooling, ensuring smooth migration for teams.
- Mentor other designers, model high craft, and drive organizational alignment around system best practices.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years in product design, with significant time building and leading design systems at scale.
- Proven impact shaping end-to-end systems (not just UI kits), with portfolio evidence of product integration and measurable outcomes.
- Deep expertise in Figma (libraries, variables, component architecture, branching) and comfort collaborating through implementation.
- Track record of aligning multiple teams and driving adoption in complex, distributed environments.
- Ability to define system strategy while delivering tangible improvements to software craft and consistency.
- Portfolio demonstrating high attention to craft and interaction details.
- No prior defense experience necessary – we are looking for designers who can bring diverse perspectives to hard problems.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Strategic and systematic in approach, balancing long-term system health with immediate product needs.
- Strong visual design craft with a commitment to quality and accessibility.
- Able to distinguish durable patterns from design trends, raising the bar for craft without losing operational grounding.
- Effective influencer across disciplines and seniority levels; open to feedback while confident in decision-making.
- Experienced leading large-scale initiatives and aligning organizations around a shared system vision.
- Strong opinions, loosely held.