Staff Product Designer, Design System

Foster City, CA4/5

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Our take

Replit is on a tear building the AI-native IDE — and a design system role here means defining the visual language of how millions of developers interact with code. This is infrastructure-level design work at one of the most consequential developer tools companies.

Job description

Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.

The Role

As Staff Product Designer for the Design System, you will be the primary owner and steward of Replit's design system—its components, patterns, principles, and governance. You'll work closely with product designers, engineers, and design engineers to ensure the system scales across the product, supports enterprise use cases, and enables fast, high-quality product development.

What You'll Do

Lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Replit's design system.

Define and evolve core components, patterns, tokens, and interaction standards.

Partner with product designers and engineers to ensure new features are built on system primitives.

Design for extensibility: support custom stacks, enterprise design systems, and customer-specific theming.

Collaborate closely with design engineers on implementation details, tradeoffs, and system architecture.

Establish clear contribution models, review processes, and decision-making frameworks.

Identify inconsistencies, duplication, and fragmentation across the product.

What We're Looking For

10+ years of product design experience, with deep ownership of a design system at scale.

Strong systems thinker with experience collaborating closely with engineers.

Proven track record of designing and evolving complex component libraries.

Experience supporting multiple products, teams, or customer-specific variations from a shared system.

Full-time role from Foster City, CA office. In-office Monday, Wednesday, Friday.

About Replit

Online IDE and AI coding platform — build anything in your browser

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replit.com

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