Staff Product Designer, Design Systems & Platform

FloQast 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—including Snowflake, Twilio, Zoom, Instacart, and The Golden State Warriors—FloQast serves customers from fast‑growing startups to global enterprises. By leveraging 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. At FloQast, design is a driving force behind our AI‑powered platform and we’re building a world‑class design organization to support our next chapter of hyper‑growth. We envision human‑centered tools that act as intelligent partners, automate repetitive work, detect anomalies, and surface insights in real‑time to help accounting teams operate with clarity and precision. Job Requirements This role requires working in the office three days per week, a requirement that may change based on team and business needs. Visa sponsorship is not available at this time. What 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 its transformation, updates, and rollout, ensuring it is scalable, technically sound, and fully aligned with business needs and product architecture. Influence Engineering Architecture: Partner with Front‑End Engineering Leads and Leadership to ensure Flo UI is technically sound, maintainable, and reflects best practices. Influence 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: Collaborate 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. What You’ll Bring 7+ years of professional experience designing and shipping high‑quality, complex SaaS or enterprise products at scale, with a significant track record of organizational impact. Expert mastery of the entire Design Systems lifecycle—leading, building, scaling, and governing a large‑scale, enterprise‑grade Design System, including component architecture, governance models, and documentation standards. Technical fluency to influence code and front‑end architecture, with strong understanding of front‑end development technologies (e.g., React, HTML/CSS) sufficient to influence technical decisions and build strong, collaborative partnerships with engineering leaders. Expertise ensuring design decisions are implemented consistently in code through Design Token Management tools like Figma Tokens or Style Dictionary, enabling distribution across formats such as CSS and JSON. Familiarity with developer workflows, including version control (Git/GitHub), package management, and front‑end framework structures to inform design decisions. Commitment to system quality assurance and comprehensive documentation (e.g., Storybook, QA tools to prevent regressions). World‑class portfolio that demonstrates exceptional systems thinking, visual design, interaction design, and strategic thinking on large‑scale platform interfaces and complex data sets. Proven leadership in founding and launching new product foundations—successfully leading and shipping product initiatives from 0‑1, including defining foundational, system‑wide user experiences. Advanced proficiency with specialized design systems tools—mastery of core design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma) and AI‑powered tools to accelerate delivery. Exceptional strategic collaboration and organizational influencing skills, with a proven ability to articulate and defend design and system rationale to executive leadership across Product, Design, and Engineering. Data‑driven system prioritization—utilizing qualitative user research and quantitative data to inform and validate system priorities, rollout strategy, and adoption success. Why We Offer Base pay range: $164,000 – $246,000. We value our Total Rewards and offer a competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, family forming benefits, life & disability insurance, and unlimited vacation. Equal Opportunity Employer FloQast, Inc is committed to operating fair and unbiased recruitment procedures allowing all applicants an equal opportunity for employment, free from discrimination on the basis of religion, race, sex, age, sexual orientation, disability, color, ethnic or national origin, or any other classification as may be protected by applicable law. We welcome people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and strive to provide a professional and welcoming workplace for all employees. #J-18808-Ljbffr FloQast