Staff Product Designer, Design Systems

Calendly is looking for a Staff Product Designer to lead and evolve its Design System—scaling quality, consistency, and accessibility across a fast-growing, multi-product platform used by millions. You’ll shape the design foundations that power every user interaction.

This is a high-impact, strategic role on a design-centric team that values user research, design craft, and cross-functional collaboration.

What You’ll Do:

• Own and evolve Calendly’s design system (components, patterns, tools)
• Improve consistency, usability, and accessibility across products
• Collaborate with designers, engineers, content designers & researchers
• Create and maintain scalable design libraries and documentation in Figma
• Coach other designers and promote design system best practices
• Advocate for inclusive, accessible design
• Align system development with product strategy and user needs

What You Bring:

• 10+ years of experience creating and scaling design systems
• A strong portfolio demonstrating systems thinking and design excellence
• Mastery of UI, UX, and visual craft with obsessive attention to detail
• Ability to align business goals, user needs, and technical constraints
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Must be authorized to work in the US (no visa sponsorship)
• Must reside in an eligible US state (not hiring in: AK, AL, DE, HI, ID, IA, MT, ND, NE, RI, SD, WV)

Why You’ll Love It:

• Huge impact: design system affects millions of users
• Collaborative, product-minded design team
• High autonomy and strategic influence
• Competitive compensation, equity, bonuses, and benefits

💡 Salary by Location:

• Tier 1 (SF, NYC): $188,800 – $255,200
• Tier 2 (Austin, Chicago, Seattle, etc.): $173,000 – $234,000
• Tier 3 (other US cities): $157,300 – $212,700

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