Senior or Staff Product Designer, Design Systems

Job summary

Responsibilities

Harvey designs and builds for a legal industry being reshaped by AI, moving with the urgency and ambition the moment demands, not just adapting to change but architecting it. As a Design Systems Designer at Harvey, you will define the foundations that make our product coherent, scalable, and…

• Build an AI-native design system that sets the bar for design quality for Design, Engineering, and Product through technical direction and collaboration
• Design, prototype, and ship production-ready system components in tight collaboration with frontend and platform engineering, with shared ownership of quality, performance, and…
• Define and evolve the core design system foundations (components, patterns, and tokens) that scale across complex, AI-powered experiences
• Push both the architecture and the implementation of the system: shape component APIs, token structure, theming, and composition patterns alongside engineering, not downstream of…
• Advocate for technical approaches with confidence, especially in new or ambiguous territory where established patterns don't yet exist

What they're looking for

• 5+ years (Senior) / 8+ years (Staff) of product design experience, with significant ownership of design systems in complex product environments
• A design portfolio that demonstrates high design craft in system-level thinking, but a strong point of view on quality, and visual cohesion
• Deep design systems expertise, including an understanding of the history and evolution of the discipline. You know why the field moved from style guides to tokens to composable…
• Excellent design engineering communication: you articulate system decisions and tradeoffs fluently to designers, engineers, and cross-functional partners
• Ability to clearly articulate system decisions and tradeoffs to designers, engineers, and cross-functional partners