Design Systems Lead

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time, cited answers and research capabilities.

San Francisco, United States
About Perplexity

Private AI company founded in 2022. Its products combine conversational search and research with cited web sources; it also offers developer-facing Search, Agent, Router, and Embeddings APIs.

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Candidate Availability

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will establish and maintain a semantic token system and the design-system repository. You will manage components, versioning, releases, governance, documentation, accessibility, theming, and the system roadmap while keeping Figma and code aligned across mobile, web, and React.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience owning design systems at large organizations
  • Design and engineering expertise
  • Strong visual-design judgment
  • Understanding of mobile, web, and React UI practices
  • Figma and GitHub fluency
  • Experience with semantic design tokens and scalable component APIs
  • Experience driving adoption through documentation and cross-functional partnership
  • Working knowledge of WCAG accessibility standards
  • Comfort with AI tooling

Responsibilities

  • Build and own a semantic token system across platforms and frameworks
  • Own components, tokens, standards, versioning, releases, and changelogs in the design-system repository
  • Set visual-quality and technical standards
  • Define and operate contribution governance
  • Keep Figma and code aligned
  • Create documentation and drive system adoption
  • Build WCAG accessibility and theming into the system
  • Maintain the system roadmap
  • Integrate AI tooling into design-systems workflows

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Retirement benefits
  • Fitness account
  • Commuter account
  • Dependent care account
  • Region-tailored benefits for full-time employees outside the U.S.
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