Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Quicken Loans, through its brand Rocket Mortgage, is a Detroit-based company focused on helping clients achieve homeownership. As the Lead Product Designer for Design Systems, you will define and scale the design system, ensuring cohesive and high-quality experiences while mentoring others and collaborating across various teams.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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)
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Incentives
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- 401K retirement plan
- Paid-time off
Company Overview
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