Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Design systems roles are increasingly central in SaaS, where product velocity, consistency, and accessibility need to scale together. This Senior Product Designer position stands out because it is explicitly anchored in building and evolving a design system for a software product, with close partnership across Product and Engineering—work that typically becomes more critical as a SaaS company expands its surface area and ship cadence.
From a SaaS career perspective, owning system-level foundations is durable experience: it builds fluency in component libraries, tokens, interaction patterns, and governance that translates across B2B platforms and multi-team product orgs. The remit also signals meaningful scope in operationalising design—documentation, adoption workflows, and implementation quality—skills that matter in SaaS environments where cross-functional alignment can be as important as visual craft.
This role is best suited to a designer who prefers shaping standards over polishing one-off screens, and who enjoys clarifying decisions so others can build confidently. It will fit someone comfortable leading through influence with engineers, and ready to combine hands-on system work with guiding a small team, in an in-office setting.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Why Ivo?
Contract negotiation is the most time-consuming, costly, and difficult component of the contract lifecycle—and it hasn’t gotten much easier since the days of fax machines.
Large language models have unlocked the ability to solve many contract negotiation problems at scale. Our product is best-in-market (with an ~80% trial win rate) and rapidly embedding itself into the lives of its users.
Overview:
We are looking for an exceptional designer to join our team in San Francisco. You will guide the vision, strategy, and execution of Ivo’s design system while managing a small team of designers. You will work across Product and Engineering to build a system that elevates product teams, one that enables rapid iteration without sacrificing coherence, taste, or craft.
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What You’ll Do:- Create, maintain, and scale component libraries, design tokens, interaction patterns, and accessibility standards
- Define and own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Ivo’s design system.
- Partner closely with Engineering to ensure system adoption, alignment, and implementation quality of the design system
- Develop workflows that improve designer and developer collaboration, such as Figma libraries, documentation, and quality checks
- Shape internal best practices for design documentation, guidelines, and cross-team collaboration
- Constantly raise the bar for design craft and execution
What you bring:- 6+ years of experience in product design, design systems, or front-end/UI engineering
- 2+ years of people management experience (designers, engineers, or cross-functional teams)
- Experience building design systems for SaaS platforms
- Deep expertise in Figma, component libraries, tokens, variants, and systematic file organization
- Constantly learning and adapting to the rapid changes AI brings to UI/UX
- A proclivity to adopting and experimenting intelligently with AI tools
- Strong communication and documentation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate system rationale and implementation guidance
- Experience operating in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities and high expectations for craft
- A portfolio that demonstrates how you’ve shaped scalable design patterns, systematized complex UI challenges, and delivered cohesive experiences
Ivo might be a good fit for you if:- Have a "do what it takes" attitude. You're willing to dive into problems and solve them yourself — you won't have anyone to delegate to
- Would describe yourself as beingrelentlessly resourceful
- You have a strong internal sense of urgency. You have a bias towards doing things *today*, rather than tomorrow
- Experience working in a startup environment is preferred but not required
- You are excited about the adventure of building a company!
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FAQ:
How far along are we?
We launched in early access in 2023. Since then, we’ve had an incredible response from the market and are growing rapidly. We 6x'd in ARR in the last 12 months. Our clients include companies like Canva, Quora, Zapier, Pinterest, Reddit, WordPress, and more. We're happy to share more details with candidates who go through our interview process.
Is this a chill gig?
Startups are very hard, especially if they’re growing fast. You’ll have a ton of responsibility, and there’s always an enormous amount of stuff to do. It’s hard work but the payoff is uncapped.
Can I work remotely?
We require candidates to work with us in-person 5 days a week in our San Francisco office.
