Product Designer, Design Systems
Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
Sail is Stripe’s user interface platform and design system. We build the design language, components, tools, and front-end foundations that product teams use to create coherent, accessible, responsive, and high-quality experiences. Designers on Sail work closely with engineers and designers across Stripe to turn recurring product needs into durable solutions.
What you’ll do
As a Product Designer on Sail, you’ll contribute to the visual and interaction foundations of Stripe’s products. With support from experienced designers and engineers, you’ll work on scoped components, patterns, guidance, and tools. This role is a good fit for a designer who cares deeply about visual craft, enjoys thinking in systems, and wants to understand how design decisions become production interfaces.
Responsibilities
- Design and refine user interface components, patterns, and foundations for use across Stripe products
- Create polished, coherent interfaces across interaction states, themes, and responsive layouts
- Partner with front-end engineers to understand constraints and carry designs into production
- Contribute to Figma libraries, prototypes, specifications, documentation, and examples
- Gather input from product teams, share work, and iterate based on feedback
Who you are
We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
- 2+ years of experience designing digital products
- A portfolio demonstrating strong visual design craft
- Experience using or contributing to a design system or component library
- Experience working with front-end engineers
- Working understanding of components, states, and responsive behavior
- Experience using artificial intelligence tools in day-to-day design work, with familiarity with large language models, agents, and reusable skills or workflows
Preferred qualifications
- Experience creating or maintaining user interface components or shared design libraries
- Working knowledge of HTML and CSS, with experience using artificial intelligence and prototyping tools to build and evaluate interactive interfaces
- Experience designing native mobile interfaces for iOS or Android
Best personality fits for this role
Your love for systems thinking and analyzing how components interact is a perfect fit for designing reusable UI patterns and foundations for Stripe's design system.
Read the INTP career guide →Your methodical approach and attention to detail are ideal for designing and maintaining precise UI components, patterns, and documentation for a design system.
Read the ISTJ career guide →Your innovative thinking and ability to see patterns across different contexts fit the challenge of designing versatile components for Stripe's design system.
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