The Design team at Backpack plays a critical role in executing on our mission to build the most trusted and easy-to-use products in crypto. We take on hard user-experience problems and turn complex technical challenges into products that feel effortless. As a Lead Product Designer on Design Systems, you'll own the foundation the rest of our product is built on — a scalable, token-driven system that keeps every surface consistent, accessible, and ready to plug into modern AI-assisted design and build workflows.

You'll work closely with Product Design, Engineering, and Product Management to build a world-class product experience at scale.

Why you'll love it here

You'll join a small, fiercely passionate team that cares deeply about craft and moves fast without compromising on quality. This is a rare chance to own a design system from its foundations rather than inherit someone else's — your work will set the standard that every designer and engineer after you builds on. We're working at the frontier of crypto and AI-assisted design, the surface area is huge, and the people here are the kind who push each other to do the best work of their careers.

What you'll be doing (ie. job duties)

• Own our design system end to end — tokens, primitives, components, patterns, and documentation.
• Define a token architecture (color, typography, spacing, elevation, motion) that scales cleanly across themes and platforms.
• Partner daily with engineering to ship the system in code, with tight Figma-to-code parity.
• Advocate for and educate product teams on best practices for designing and building with the system.
• Set the standards and governance that keep the system coherent as more designers and engineers contribute.
• Structure the system to be AI-ready — semantic, well-documented, and consumable by the tools reshaping design and front-end work.

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements)

• 7+ years of experience as a product designer, design engineer, or similar role, with significant time spent on design systems.
• A deep passion for bridging design, code, and systems-level thinking.
• Demonstrated experience building or substantially scaling a design system at a product company (please share examples).
• Deep expertise with design tokens, theming, and component architecture in Figma.
• Strong understanding of how systems translate into production front-end code, and a track record of close collaboration with engineers.
• Fluency with accessibility standards (WCAG) and an eye for the details that make a product feel trustworthy.

Nice to haves

• Experience in fintech, crypto, trading, or other data-dense, regulated products.