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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # UX Principal, Design Systems - TCGplayer - **Company:** eBay - **Location:** Portland, OR, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $128,000.0 - $215,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Artificial Intelligence, Client Server Models, Software as a Service, Interaction Design, Responsive Web Design, Systems Architecture, Modern Ui, Material UI, Figma - **Published:** August 12, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.workingnomads.com/job/go/1787050/ ## About the Role * 8+ years of experience in Product, UX, Visual, or Experience Design, including significant experience designing and evolving enterprise-scale design systems for complex digital products. * Demonstrated expertise in design systems architecture, including component libraries, design tokens, variables, interaction patterns, documentation, governance, and scalable contribution models. * Exceptional visual and interaction design skills with a portfolio that demonstrates the ability to create elegant, intuitive, and highly polished product experiences while translating them into reusable system assets. * Familiarity with emerging AI-assisted design and design-to-code workflows, and a strong interest in shaping how design systems enable the future of product development. * Experience designing for desktop, responsive web, and native mobile experiences, with the ability to create scalable patterns that work cohesively across platforms. * Deep understanding of how design systems are implemented in code, with experience partnering closely with Engineering to ensure consistency between design and production through shared components, tokens, and front-end technologies. * Ability to define and evolve design languages, interaction models, and UX standards that improve product quality, consistency, accessibility, and efficiency across multiple products and teams. * Experience establishing new interaction patterns and translating innovations from product work into scalable design system capabilities that can be adopted across an organization. * Strong systems thinking and the ability to balance immediate product needs with long-term platform health, maintainability, and scalability. * Experience with modern design tooling including Figma component libraries, variables, design tokens, and prototyping, with a passion for improving how designers and engineers work together. * Outstanding communication and facilitation skills, with a proven track record of building alignment across Design, Product, and Engineering., * Experience in eCommerce, marketplaces, seller tools, SaaS, fintech, or other complex product ecosystems * Demonstrated experience implementing AI-assisted design and development workflows, including integrating design systems with AI-powered prototyping, design generation, and design-to-code pipelines * Familiarity with the gaming, hobby, or collectibles community - particularly trading card games ## Description * Partner closely with Design and Engineering to ensure the design system is implemented consistently across both Figma and code, improving quality, maintainability, and development efficiency. * Define and maintain design standards, governance, documentation, and contribution models that enable the system to scale as the organization grows. * Advance our design tooling by developing and maintaining component libraries, design tokens, variables, and workflows that improve designer productivity and implementation fidelity. * Raise the quality bar across the organization by evolving our visual language, accessibility standards, and UX patterns based on a deep understanding of our customers' unique needs. * Partner with UX Design and Product teams on strategic roadmap initiatives, design sprints, and vision work to define new interaction patterns and experience frameworks that solve emerging customer needs and evolve the design system through practical application in shipped products. * Champion modern design and development workflows, including AI-assisted design and design-to-code capabilities, ensuring our design system is prepared for the future of product development. ## Related Videos - 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