Staff Product Designer - Design Systems

About the role:

As a Staff Product Designer at Samsara, you will ship designs that our customers use every day to run their operations. We’re looking for someone who is excited to shape the daily experiences of those customers across industries such as transportation and logistics, construction, food and beverage, government and more. In this role, you will be responsible for Samsara’s Design System—the backbone of our design language. You will engage cross functional partners to ensure consistency across our product surfaces, set a standard for quality that empowers your design and engineering teammates. You’ll be expected to influence strategy and ship well-crafted designs that make our customers’ operations more efficient, safe, and sustainable.  

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work, this role won’t be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development, countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
• You’re energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative, ambitious ideas for our customers.
• You want to be with the best: At Samsara, we win together, celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a high-caliber team that will encourage you to do your best. 

Click here to learn about what we value at Samsara. 

In this role, you will: 

• Apply Expertise in Design Systems: You’ve got experience in building a flexible & scalable Design System across multiple devices and for a multitude of use cases. You identify opportunities for consistency, and can balance competing needs and recognize dependencies across teams.
• Showcase Strong Interaction & Visual Design skills: You thrive in the details, are expert in best practices, and exhibit solid design taste in the effort to create a clean, modern UI system. You push for meeting standards around accessibility and performance. You deeply understand our customers and leverage data to both guide your decisions and measure your success. 
• Collaborate & Evangelize: The Staff Design Systems designer is a highly matrixed role, and it’s expected that you’ll work across teams to uncover needs, drive alignment, generate enthusiasm/ buy-in for design system adoption. You’re a leader when it comes to establishing and enforcing healthy processes; you’re able to drive alignment across teams, and have a POV on how to best make an impact within a dynamic organization. 
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices

Minimum requirements for the role:

• 7+ years experience designing web & mobile applications
• 4+ years experience with a primary focus on design systems
• Expertise in interaction and visual design
• Expertise with Figma, particularly in how best to enable engineering and design teams for heavy component usage. 
• Portfolio showcasing your craft, ability to solve user-problems, and quantified impact

An ideal candidate also has:

• Craft: Proven ability to evolve platforms with clean, modern UX & UI patterns. 
• Customer-centric: Bias towards engaging with customers (internal and external) to understand needs and validate designs
• Teamwork: History of effective collaboration with cross-functional partners
• Impact: Track record of strategic influence and shipping impact