Staff Product Designer, Design Systems & Platform (Chicago)

Los Angeles, California / San Jose, California / Chicago, Illinois / New York City, NY / Austin, TexasProduct Design – Product Design /Full-time /HybridFloQast is at the forefront of the accounting industry, providing an AI-powered Accounting Transformation Platform founded by accountants, for accountants. Trusted by over 3,000 organizations worldwide such as Snowflake, Twilio, Zoom, Instacart, and The Golden State Warriors, we serve customers from fast-growing startups to global enterprises. By leveraging our groundbreaking AI Agents and purpose-built workflows, we empower teams to streamline their financial close, enhance compliance, and achieve a new level of transparency and accuracy. FloQast is more than a SaaS company, it’s a movement to transform the accounting profession.At FloQast, design is a driving force behind our AI-powered Accounting Transformation Platform and we’re building a world-class design organization to support our next chapter of hyper-growth! Our vision is to create human-centered tools that act as intelligent partners that automate repetitive work, detect anomalies, and surface insights in real time to help accounting teams operate with clarity and precision. Product design shapes: 1) How complex data becomes intuitive 2) How AI becomes a trusted partner, and 3) How everyone from the accountant to the CFO feels empowered. This role is for a design leader who will serve as the principal authority on our design system and platform-level experiences, driving quality, consistency, and velocity across all FloQast products. Come join us!This role has a requirement of working in office 3 days per week, which may be subject to change based on team and business needs, as determined by the department leader. Please note that this requirement is subject to ongoing review and may be adjusted in the future. *Visa sponsorship is not available at this timeWhat You'll Do:As a Staff Product Designer - Platform/Design Systems, you will be a principal force in defining the future trajectory of the FloQast platform and our Flow UI Design System, focusing on high-leverage problems and cross-organizational influence.Define Platform-Wide Experiences: Act as the domain expert and owner for critical, system-wide experiences, such as in-app notifications, global navigation, and page architectures, ensuring a unified and consistent user journey across all product lines.Design for Transformative AI: Translate complex AI capabilities and enterprise requirements into intuitive, high-trust, and scalable experiences across the platform.Lead Design System Strategy and Transformation: Own the strategic vision, roadmap, and execution for the Flow UI Design System. Drive the transformation, updates, and rollout of the system, ensuring it is scalable, technically sound, and fully aligned with business needs and product architecture.Influence Engineering Architecture: Partner directly with Front-End Engineering Leads and Leadership to ensure Flo UI is technically sound, maintainable, and reflects best practices. You will serve as a broad influencer on the direction of the overall product architecture as it relates to UI/UX implementation.Drive Design Enablement and Velocity: Establish processes and governance to maximize the impact and adoption of the design system across all product and engineering teams, accelerating design and development velocity for the entire organization.Architect Product Vision and Roadmap: Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering Leadership to define the product roadmap for Flow UI and design debt, proactively identifying and scoping opportunities for platform-level standardization and improvement.Mentor and Coach: Act as a senior design leader, providing mentorship and coaching to designers across the organization in system thinking, design systems best practices, quality execution, and cross-functional leadership.Elevate Quality at Scale: Set and enforce the highest bar for design quality, consistency, and accessibility across the entire platform through system documentation and rigorous component review while still allowing for speed and innovation. The quality bar should be set by user needs, not just UI best best practices.What You'll Bring:To excel in this Staff-level role, you should possess a rare combination of design mastery, technical fluency, and organizational leadership.You possess a deep professional history in enterprise product design. This includes 7+ years of professional experience designing and successfully shipping high-quality, complex SaaS or enterprise products at scale, with a significant track record of organizational impact.You demonstrate expert mastery over the entire Design Systems lifecycle. You have proven, expert-level experience in leading, building, scaling, and governing a large-scale, enterprise-grade Design System, including defining component architecture, governance models, and comprehensive documentation standards.You possess the technical fluency required to influence code and front-end architecture. This includes a strong understanding of front-end development technologies (e.g., React, HTML/CSS) sufficient to influence technical implementation decisions and build strong, collaborative partnerships with engineering leaders.You are an expert in managing the integrity of design decisions across code. Your expertise includes ensuring design decisions are implemented consistently in code through Design Token Management tools like Figma Tokens or Style Dictionary, enabling distribution across various formats (CSS, JSON).You are fluent in modern developer workflows and component distribution. You have familiarity with developer processes including Version Control (Git/GitHub), managing component distribution via Package Management, and the structure of Front-End Frameworks to inform design decisions regarding component complexity.You prioritize system quality assurance and comprehensive documentation. This includes experience with component documentation platforms like Storybook and understanding of quality assurance tools used to prevent regressions.You maintain a world-class portfolio that demonstrates exceptional systems thinking. Your portfolio showcases exceptional visual design, interaction design, and strategic thinking, specifically demonstrating work on large-scale platform interfaces and large, complex data sets. You know how to balance the needs of long-term strategic work, but can also pivot to support rapid tactical iterations.You are a proven leader in founding and launching new product foundations. You have proven experience successfully leading and shipping product initiatives from 0-1, including defining foundational, system-wide user experiences.You demonstrate advanced proficiency with specialized design systems tools. This includes mastery of core design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma), and demonstrated advanced proficiency in leveraging AI-powered tools to accelerate knowledge, quality, and delivery.You have exceptional strategic collaboration and organizational influencing skills. You have a proven ability to clearly articulate and defend design and system rationale to executive leadership across Product, Design, and Engineering.You lead and inform system priorities through rigorous research and data. You utilize both qualitative user research and quantitative data to inform and validate system priorities, rollout strategy, and adoption success. Talking to customers and understanding user needs first-hand will be paramount to your success.Why You'll Love Working With Us:FloQast Product Design is a place where curious, thoughtful people come together to solve meaningful problems and grow through their work. You’ll have the freedom to explore ideas, take ownership, and create real impact with the support of teammates and managers who genuinely want you to succeed. We’re a collaborative team that values openness and initiative. Here, you can be scrappy, think boldly, and know that your voice truly matters.#LI-SB1#LI-hybrid#BI-hybridThe base pay range for this position is $164,000-$246,000 Compensation is not limited to base salary. FloQast values our Total Rewards, and offers a competitive and elaborate Benefits Package including, but not limited to, Medical, Dental, Vision, Family Forming benefits, Life & Disability Insurance, and Unlimited Vacation. FloQast reserves the right to amend, change, alter, and revise pay ranges and benefits offerings at any time. All applicants acknowledge that by applying to this position you understand that this specific pay range is contingent upon meeting the qualifications and requirements of the role, and for the successful completion of the interview selection and process. It is at the Company's discretion to determine what pay is provided to a candidate within the range associated with the role.About FloQast:FloQast is the leading AI-powered Accounting Transformation Platform, uniquely built by former accountants for accountants. We automate complex, recurring accounting workflows—transforming preparers into strategic reviewers and relieving accountants from tedious manual work. Our cloud-based solution is trusted by over 3,500 world-class accounting teams, including Lululemon, Doordash, and the MLB, to drive collaboration and financial accuracy. Driven by a mission to continuously elevate the profession, FloQast is redefining both the practice and the perception of accounting on a global scale. Our values act as a guiding compass, shaping every decision we make, and are non-negotiable, particularly in our hiring process. Alongside our employees, partners, and customers, we embody these values every day:Unwaveringly Authentic Ambitious with IntegrityEmpowered to GrowCommitted to CollaborationCustomer Obsessed in All WaysFloQast is regularly rated as a Best Place to Work!- Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces in 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021- Best Places to Work by LA