Staff Product Designer, AI Design Systems

Product Designer, AI Design Systems Cherry | Individual Contributor, Founding Design Systems Hire About the Role At Cherry, design and engineering aren't converging someday: they've already converged. We design with Claude. Our design system isn't a component library we maintain on the side; it's the infrastructure that makes speed and quality the same thing, for every one of our five products. We're looking for the founding member of Cherry's design systems team: someone who takes this system, still young, and turns it into the backbone of how Cherry builds. This isn't a caretaker role. It's a chance to define, from the ground up, what a design system looks like when AI is a first-class collaborator rather than an afterthought, and to lead that vision as the team grows around it. This role is the foundation of Cherry's quality at scale. When the system is right, good decisions aren't made by individuals: they're encoded, and reinforced automatically by the tools everyone already uses to design and build.

Get this right, and every team at Cherry moves faster with less risk. That's the bar this role is held to, not "good enough," but the standard every other decision gets measured against. Cherry's design system spans our provider web application, consumer web application, provider mobile application, consumer mobile application, and point-of-sale system. You'll own the component library, the React codebase, interaction patterns, tokens, and documentation, end to end. Cherry is fully committed to AI-native workflows: everyone here designs and builds with Claude, and we have a dedicated AI Enablement team pushing that further. We're moving away from traditional Figma-first workflows toward tooling built for the AI era, and this role will lead that transition, not just adapt to it. You won't be maintaining a library. You'll be building, and leading, the next version of it, with real say in the team that grows around this work.