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# Design System Lead - Product & Engineering

- **Company:** Shift4 Payments, LLC
- **Location:** Tampa, FL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Software as a Service, Web Engineering, ReactJS, Material UI, Production Code, Figma, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** October 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=56327bec21d23b92

## About the Role

* 7+ years in Product Design, Design Systems, or UX Engineering roles.
 * Proven track record building, evolving, and implementing production-ready design systems at scale.
 * Deep expertise in token architecture, theming, component variants, accessibility, and cross-platform design systems.
 * Strong design skills and understanding of design system best practices, governance, and design-to-code workflows.
 * Hands-on experience with web and mobile technologies (nice to have React, ShadCN, Compose and Material 3), with a strong understanding of how design system components, tokens, and patterns are implemented in production code.
 * Experience in working with front-end engineers on design systems implementation.
 * Clear communicator who can align design and engineering around shared conventions and technical constraints.

Nice-to-have

 * Experience in fintech, commerce, POS, or SaaS product environments.
 * Experience migrating legacy design systems or products to a new unified system.
 * Experience using AI to automate or accelerate design system work.
 * Experience contributing directly to design system code or front-end repositories.
 * Background in prototyping advanced or AI-assisted user experiences.

## Description

Our Product Design team works across multiple product lines, from web to Android and POS hardware. We are looking for a Design System Lead to lead the unification of the visual language of the Shift4 portfolio and development of a shared design system. You will own the design system end-to-end, from token architecture and component governance to overseeing its implementation across Shift4 portfolio. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role at the intersection of design systems, front-end engineering, and modern AI workflows., * Assess the current state of our design systems across design and engineering, identify gaps and duplication, and establish a practical roadmap for unification, migration, and ongoing governance.

 * Own, evolve, and consolidate our design system for web, mobile, and POS products.
 * Define and maintain scalable token architecture, component libraries, theming, accessibility standards, and cross-product patterns.
 * Lead the migration of existing and legacy interfaces to the shared design system
 * Drive design-to-code alignment between Figma and production, establishing practical workflows that connect design, design system code, and production.
 * Partner closely with product teams to translate design system foundations into production, accelerate component migration, identify inconsistencies, and improve adoption across products.
 * Explore AI-assisted opportunities to automate repetitive design system work.
 * Establish clear design system standards and review mechanisms that prevent teams from creating redundant or non-compliant components and ensure new work aligns with the shared system.
 * Work closely with Product and Engineering leads to ensure the design system accelerates product development rather than creating additional processes or rework.
 * Mentor designers on implementation-aware design, token usage, systems thinking.
 * Create practical documentation, examples, and guidelines that help product teams correctly adopt and contribute to the design system., * Product teams ship faster because the design system accelerates decisions instead of creating rework.
 * Figma and production stay tightly aligned, with designers and engineers working from a consistent source of truth.
 * AI-assisted workflows meaningfully accelerate design work.
 * The design team produces more consistent, implementation-aware work.
 * The system has modern, maintainable foundations that scale as Shift4 adds products, platforms, and people.