About the Role
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We are seeking a passionate and highly experienced Staff Product Designer to join our Design System team. You'll be the driving force behind the development and adoption of a best-in-class design system, partnering with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent, accessible, and scalable experiences across all of Deel's products. This role sits at the intersection of craft excellence, operational efficiency, and strategic impact, empowering product teams through foundational design solutions that accelerate delivery and elevate quality.
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AI is changing how products are designed and built. At Deel, we’re excited about designers who are exploring how AI can enhance both the design process and the product experience. We’re looking for designers who are curious about emerging technologies and who actively experiment with AI in their work. This could include improving design workflows, prototyping faster, exploring new interaction patterns, or helping shape AI-powered product experiences. If you’ve worked on AI-related features or used AI tools as part of your design process, we’d love to see examples of that work in your portfolio.
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead the evolution, documentation, and adoption of Deel's design system.
- Maintain and improve the quality, consistency, and scalability of UI components and patterns across web and mobile platforms.
- Ensure the system reflects accessibility, localization, and responsiveness best practices.
- Lead the public exposure of the design system to showcase Deel's design excellence.
- Lead the vision for how we design robust, reusable components that serve multiple use cases through intelligent use of variables.
- Develop highly technical components such as customisable Data Grids, Form builders and navigational patterns which are scalable enough to meet the daily demands of an 80+ strong design team.
- Measure component metrics, identify breakage patterns, and systematically address design debt across the system.
- Facilitate stronger engineering approaches to designer collaboration.
- Build tools that enhance the designer and engineer experience across Deel, including linting systems for consistency and automated workflows.
- Develop systems such as design token automation and utilities that streamline handoff processes.
- Act as a force multiplier by creating foundational work that can be continuously reused across all product teams.
- Mentor and support designers in effective design system adoption, actively working to elevate their capabilities and expertise.
- Help elevate team capabilities by identifying pattern-matching opportunities and facilitating knowledge sharing.
- Create opportunities for designers to grow their system thinking and contribute to the broader design system evolution.
- Work cross-functionally with design leadership to align system strategy with broader product goals.
What You'll Bring
5-7 years of experience in Product Design with at least 4 years focused on design systems at scale.
Strong portfolio showcasing system-level thinking and component design for complex digital products.
Deep understanding of accessibility standards, usability principles, and responsive design across web and mobile platforms.
Proven ability to develop and evolve scalable design systems that support large product surfaces.
Experience balancing consistency with flexibility to support multiple use cases and teams.
Expert-level mastery in Figma, tokens, component libraries, and design documentation practices.
Strong communicator who can align and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
Experience collaborating closely with engineers on component implementation, QA processes, and internal tooling development.
Ability to facilitate cross-team design critiques, reviews, and workshops.
Proactive problem-solver who can lead projects with minimal oversight.
Track record of improving design processes and enabling broader teams to move faster and more efficiently.
Comfortable operating across multiple workstreams and aligning cross-functional teams.
Demonstrable exploratory experience working with the Figma MCP server.
Experience with Figma Plugin API and developing internal tooling to support design workflows.
Familiarity with MUI (Material UI) component library and underlying framework architecture.
Front-end experience (React, TypeScript) and understanding of design-token-driven development.
Nice to Have
Knowledge of motion design principles and proficiency with motion tools (React Spring, GSAP, etc).
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary ranges are quoted in USD as a consistent global reference. Your offer will be localized to your country's currency using a market-aligned conversion.
- Final pay is based on objective, job-related criteria including experience, skills, and location.
- Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location.
- Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country.
- The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access.
About Deel
- Deel is the all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. Our vision is to unlock global opportunity for every person, team, and business. Built for the way the world works today, Deel combines HRIS, payroll, compliance, benefits, performance, and equipment management into one seamless platform. With AI-powered tools and a fully owned payroll infrastructure, Deel supports every worker type in 150+ countries—helping businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly.
- Among the largest globally distributed companies in the world, our team of 7,000 spans more than 100 countries, speaks 74 languages, and brings a connected and dynamic culture that drives continuous learning and innovation for our customers.
- As the fastest-growing Software as a Service (SaaS) company in history, Deel is transforming how global talent connects with world-class companies – breaking down borders that have traditionally limited both hiring and career opportunities. We're not just building software; we're creating the infrastructure for the future of work, enabling a more diverse and inclusive global economy. In 2024 alone, we paid $11.2 billion to workers in nearly 100 currencies and provided healthcare and benefits to workers in 109 countries—ensuring people get paid and protected, no matter where they are.
- Our momentum is reflected in our achievements and customer satisfaction: CNBC Disruptor 50, Forbes Cloud 100, Deloitte Fast 500, and repeated recognition on Y Combinator's top companies list – all while maintaining a 4.83 average rating from 15,000 reviews across G2, Trustpilot, Captera, Apple and Google.
- Your experience at Deel will be a career accelerator. At the forefront of the global work revolution, you'll tackle complex challenges that impact millions of people's working lives. With our momentum—backed by a $17.3 billion valuation and $1 B in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in just over five years—you'll drive meaningful impact while building expertise that makes you a sought-after leader in the transformation of global work.