Senior Digital Product Designer, Design Systems

Senior Digital Product Designer, Design Systems Full-time Salary Range: 121,400.00-206,400.00 Job Type (exemption status): Exempt position - Please see related compensation & benefits details below Business Function: Digital Product Design Sandisk understands how people and businesses consume data and we relentlessly innovate to deliver solutions that enable today’s needs and tomorrow’s next big ideas. With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in Flash and advanced memory technologies, our solutions have become the beating heart of the digital world we’re living in and that we have the power to shape. Sandisk meets people and businesses at the intersection of their aspirations and the moment, enabling them to keep moving and pushing possibility forward. We do this through the balance of our powerhouse manufacturing capabilities and our industry-leading portfolio of products that are recognized globally for innovation, performance and quality. Sandisk has two facilities recognized by the World Economic Forum as part of the Global Lighthouse Network for advanced 4IR innovations. These facilities were also recognized as Sustainability Lighthouses for breakthroughs in efficient operations. With our global reach, we ensure the global supply chain has access to the Flash memory it needs to keep our world moving forward. We’re looking for a Senior Digital Product Designer, Design Systems to help scale and evolve the design system that powers our products across platforms. This role will own the evolution of our design foundations, including design tokens, component architecture, theming capabilities, interaction patterns, accessibility standards, and implementation quality. Working closely with Product, Engineering, Brand, and Design teams, this designer will help ensure consistency, scalability, and efficiency across all customer experiences. The ideal candidate combines strong systems thinking with deep interaction and visual design expertise, enabling them to translate complex product requirements into reusable, extensible, and developer-friendly design solutions. How You’ll Spend Your Time This is primarily a design systems role: 80% of your time will be dedicated to owning, scaling, and evolving the design system. The remaining 20% will be spent contributing to broader product work: supporting ongoing feature improvements, designing new feature UI/UX flows, wireframing, and user testing.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Own and evolve our design token architecture across color, typography, spacing, motion, elevation, iconography, and semantic foundations, with strategies that hold up across themes, platforms, and future needs. Design, document, test, and maintain reusable UI components and patterns that meet accessibility requirements and platform conventions. Work with product designers to turn emerging product needs into system solutions, balancing consistency against product constraints. Partner with Engineering to set implementation standards, align on component architecture and APIs, and hold quality through design QA and implementation reviews. Scale the system across mobile, tablet, and desktop with responsive, platform-appropriate behavior, plus flexible theming, localization, and internationalization. Spot system gaps and build solutions ahead of upcoming product work. Set governance, documentation, and adoption standards that keep the system consistent and maintainable over time. Educate and support designers and developers in the effective use of the design system. Champion consistency, scalability, and design excellence by promoting system-driven thinking across teams. Measure and continuously improve the design system's effectiveness, quality, and adoption. Contribute to broader product design work, including new feature flows, journey mapping, wireframing, and concepting to support user testing and product exploration. Location This is a hybrid role based in our Milpitas, CA (SanDisk) office, with on-site work three days per week and the remaining days remote. As a Senior Digital Product Designer on our team, you will have the opportunity to work on foundational design work that impacts millions of users across every platform we build for. We offer a collaborative, inclusive environment where your ideas can help shape the future of how our products look, feel, and scale. If you are passionate about building thoughtful, scalable design systems and raising the bar for design quality across an entire product ecosystem, we would love to hear from you! Design Systems Expertise Deep understanding of atomic design principles. Expertise in design system architecture, including tokens, component libraries, reusable patterns, governance, and scalable cross-platform foundations. A track record of building and evolving design systems for complex digital products, with 6+ years in product design, including 2+ years focused on design systems. Product & UX Skills Strong interaction and visual design skills. Systems-thinking mindset. Cross-platform UX experience. Ability to balance consistency with product flexibility. Technical Collaboration Experience partnering closely with front‑end engineers. Strong understanding of design-to-development workflows, implementation constraints, technical tradeoffs, and design QA practices. Tools & Process Advanced Figma expertise, including libraries, variables, and design system management. Strong prototyping, communication, and documentation skills. Ability to present system decisions and influence cross-functional stakeholders. Education & Certifications Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Interaction Design, Visual/Graphic Design, or related field. Nice to have Certifications in accessibility, UX/interaction design, or design systems–related programs. Sandisk is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, & gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non‑discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal" poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here. Sandisk thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and participation. Sandisk is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at View email address on click.appcast.io to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying. Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will 10/21/2026 (3 months from posting), although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline. Compensation & Benefits Details An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs. The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future. You will be eligible to participate in Sandisk’s Short‑Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance. Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long‑Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Sandisk’s Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax‑advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Sandisk’s Savings 401(k) Plan. Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company’s sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law. Job Location #J-18808-Ljbffr Sandisk