Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Design systems work sits at the intersection of product consistency and delivery speed in SaaS, especially in B2B platforms where multiple teams ship into a shared UI. A Product Designer focused on a design system signals an organization investing in reusable patterns, documented guidelines, and cross-product coherence—foundational infrastructure for any SaaS product that evolves through frequent releases and expanding surface area.
For a SaaS career, this role builds durable expertise in scalable interface architecture: component thinking, tokens and variables, and the governance mechanics that keep adoption high across teams. The day-to-day collaboration implied here—design partnering with front-end infrastructure and product squads—develops the ability to translate diverse product needs into system-level solutions, a transferable skill across mature SaaS companies and those moving from ad hoc UI toward platform standards.
This position tends to suit designers who enjoy precision, documentation, and influence without owning a single feature area end-to-end. It aligns with professionals who like working through consensus, balancing new patterns with pragmatic reuse, and partnering closely with engineers to ensure what’s designed can be implemented reliably. It also fits someone ready to be an internal advocate for consistency and design system practices across a broader product organization.
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
We're seeking a highly motivated Product Designer to join our design systems team. If you have a passion for creating innovative products, believe in design systems, and thrive on crafting scalable, consistent user experiences, we want you!
You will:
- Work closely with our design system lead and front-end infra dev team to evolve and scale our design system
- Design and document components, patterns, and guidelines that empower product teams across Gong
- Collaborate with product designers and product managers across the organization to understand their needs and translate them into reusable system solutions
- Partner with front-end developers to ensure seamless implementation of design system components
- Help define and optimize processes for design system adoption and contribution
- Drive consistency and quality across Gong's product experience through thoughtful component design
- Balance innovation with pragmatism - knowing when to create new patterns vs. leverage existing ones
- Contribute to the evolution of our visual language, interaction patterns, and design guidelines
- Act as an advocate for design system best practices and help teams understand when and how to use system components
You should apply if you have:
- 4+ years of demonstrated results in designing flows, experiences, and UI for web and mobile products, preferably B2B SaaS
- 2+ years of hands-on experience working with or building design systems
- Exceptional visual design craft skills with a detail-oriented approach and deep understanding of design fundamentals
- A strong eye for visual patterns and pixel perfection
- Experience collaborating effectively with designers, engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders
- A technically-minded approach and comfort working closely with front-end developers
- Proficiency with Figma and design system tools - experience with variables, tokens, and component architecture
- Excellent communication, presentation, and organizational skills - you can articulate design decisions clearly to both design and engineering audiences
- A high level of verbal and written English
- A portfolio of recent work that demonstrates your design system experience
