Product Designer, Design Systems

Company Description Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. We build, power, and evolve the tools and technologies that connect millions of entrepreneurs with millions of buyers around the world. As an Etsy employee, you will tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human.

We believe exceptional companies are built by exceptional teams, and we're intentional about it. That means hiring great people, setting them up for success from day one, and giving them real reasons to grow their careers here. We invest in development that goes beyond promotions, and we foster the trust and relationships that help people do their best work together.

Collage is Etsy's design system, and it's how quality ships ry buyer and seller surface across web, iOS, Android, and Flutter is built from it. As a Staff Product Designer on the Design Systems team within UX Platform, you will help drive growth and architecture of that system: how components are structured, how they compose, how they hold up across four platforms and two different sides of a marketplace, and how they get better over time.

This role sits at a specific moment. Collage has mature design language and token foundations, and much of the component library is built. The next phase is harder and more interesting: making the system opinionated rather than reactive, working with consumers to define pattern libraries, closing the gaps in how components are proposed, built, graduated, and retired, and working efficiently so a small team can operate and grow it at this scale.

How you work matters as much as what you build. We're looking for someone whose instinct is to work in the open — to write the decision down while making it, to bring the team into a hard problem rather than come back with the answer, to leave the reasoning behind and not just the result.

This is a full-time position reporting to the Senior Product Design Manager for Design Systems and UX AI Enablement.

The Design Systems team is a core part of our design organization and drives work across three surfaces: documentation, Figma libraries, and toolkit code. We work as a tight design-product-engineering pod, and we earn adoption rather than mandating it — the standing bar is "build it so good it's hard to ignore." That means we live close to the teams consuming our work, through office hours, migration partnership, project support, and we take quality personally.

We're a small, senior, opinionated group. Everyone here has a domain they own deeply and a shared obligation to make everyone else better  you like systems problems that have scaled complexity attached (four platforms, a two-sided marketplace, a large existing codebase), and are looking to grow a mature system — you'll like it here.

The work you do will directly contribute to Etsy's mission of Keeping Commerce Human by enabling product teams to focus on solving customer problems while maintaining the unique, human-centered experience that defines Etsy.

• Architect the system. Refine component anatomy, API and composition models, variant strategies, and token structures. Make decisions that hold across web, iOS, Android, and Flutter, and know where cross-platform coherence matters versus where platform convention should win. Anticipate how the system needs to flex before the consuming teams ask.
• Refine the component lifecycle. Define how a component gets proposed, prioritized, designed, documented, graduated, and deprecated, and what "done" means at each stage. Close the gaps between one-off requests and durable system…