Sr Product Manager, Design Systems

The Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS) is the industry-defining, flagship framework that powers the user interfaces of the world's most trusted CRM. As a Senior Product Manager for SLDS, you will be the primary owner of platform health and roadmap across SLDS 1 and SLDS 2, ensuring our massive global base of developers and designers can build with confidence and give both pro-code developers and declarative builders the tools to make Salesforce their own.

This is a craft-focused, execution-intensive role. You will work closely with engineering, design, and accessibility specialists to ship consistent, high-quality increments that keep SLDS the trusted foundation it has always been.

What You'll Be Doing

UI Customization Roadmap

• Shape the product roadmap for SLDS UI customization, covering both the pro-code to no-code/low-code user customization spectrum.
• Define requirements and acceptance criteria for new styling capabilities, ensuring they work consistently and support the full spectrum of customer use cases from ISV partners to enterprise admins.
• Collaborate deeply with design and engineering on strategy and execution.
• Prioritize opportunities based on user insights, data, and business objectives, adapting quickly to evolving needs and signals.

Design Systems Website

• Drive the product roadmap for the Design Systems website, the primary destination for developer and designer documentation, component references, and contribution guidance.
• Define and prioritize improvements to maximize builder self-service and reduce support burden.
• Collaborate with content, engineering, design and the broader community to keep documentation accurate, comprehensive, and up to date.

Platform Maintenance & Trust

• Own the backlog and release roadmap for SLDS 1 and SLDS 2: balancing new enhancements, bug resolution, technical debt, and ongoing compliance work to keep the system healthy and trustworthy at scale.
• Maintain absolute backward compatibility; every update must seamlessly support existing customer implementations without disruption.
• Collaborate with design tooling teams to ensure Figma UI kits, linters, and validators stay in sync with the component library.

Do you have experience in WAI-ARIA?, * 5+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time on design systems, component libraries, developer tools, or frontend platforms at scale.

• Deep understanding of CSS architecture, design tokens, and component-level styling. You can speak fluently with engineers about the tradeoffs of a styling API decision.
• Genuine fluency bridging design and engineering: you understand the DOM, CSS, accessibility specs (ARIA, screen reader behavior), and Figma natively.
• Experience writing rigorous acceptance criteria, managing agile backlogs, and leading cross-functional delivery.
• Strong analytical instincts - comfortable interpreting telemetry, accessibility audits, and user research to drive prioritization.
• Clear, concise communicator across technical and non-technical audiences., * Hands-on familiarity with SLDS, Lightning Web Components, or another enterprise-scale design system (e.g., Carbon, Fluent, Material, Spectrum).
• Prior experience as a designer, front-end engineer, or design technologist. You've built with the system before you managed it.
• Deep familiarity with design token architecture and tooling pipelines (e.g., Style Dictionary, Theo) and how tokens flow from design decisions to code.
• Experience owning a component library, you understand the human and technical cost of breaking changes, and you are an accessibility champion.

Pulled from the full job description

• Paid parental leave
• Parental leave
• 401(k)
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.

In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.

The typical base salary range for this position is $172,500 - $260,100 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $207,800 - $285,800 annually.

The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword - it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce., Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that's inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications - without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion