Senior UX Designer, Design System Boston , CarGurus - Design tokens Accessibility Figma

Car Gurus (NASDAQ: CARG) is hiring a Senior User Experience Designer to lead the evolution of its design system. The role is intended to enable faster, more consistent product development across all products and platforms and to provide a single source of truth for designers and engineers. Car Gurus describes itself as the largest and fastest-growing automotive marketplace and notes it has been profitable for over 15 years.

• Define, maintain, and evolve components, patterns, and interaction standards that serve the full product surface.
• Partner closely with Engineering on system implementation, architecture decisions, and handoff processes.
• Proactively identify gaps by monitoring how the system is used across products, and close those gaps before they become workarounds.
• Reduce redundant design and development work by standardizing the most common solutions.
• Support design and engineering teams in adopting the system effectively, through documentation, reviews, and direct collaboration.
• Govern the contribution process: how changes get proposed, reviewed, and approved.
• Maintain a healthy system backlog and triage incoming requests with clear prioritization.

• 7+ years of experience in UX/product design, with at least 4 years focused on design systems
• Proven expertise working with Figma variables and component architecture, including how they map to coded token structures.
• Working knowledge of front-end fundamentals (HTML, CSS)
• Experience dealing with accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA) and how they inform component design and documentation.
• Strong systems thinking; you naturally see patterns, spot inconsistencies, and design for reuse.
• Demonstrated experience building and scaling a design system, ideally at a product company with multiple teams.
• Ability to balance consistency with flexibility; you know when to standardize and when to leave room for product judgment.
• Comfort working closely with Engineering, including familiarity with how design tokens, component libraries, and handoff tooling work in practice.