Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

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About the role

At Klaviyo, we're building the platform that helps businesses create and deliver personalized customer experiences at scale, powered by first-party data.

We're looking for a Senior Product Designer to join the Design System team and help evolve Ascent, Klaviyo's design system. You'll define and scale the reusable components, patterns, tokens, documentation, and standards that help teams ship faster, creating a more consistent and usable product experience across Klaviyo.

This role sits at the intersection of product design, engineering, and systems thinking. You'll partner across product teams to improve design-to-code parity, drive adoption, and use AI and automation to reduce manual friction while maintaining a high bar for quality, accessibility, and system integrity.

What you'll do

Evolve Ascent's components, patterns, tokens, interaction standards, and documentation across Klaviyo's product surfaces.

Identify inconsistencies, gaps, and duplicated patterns across product teams, then turn them into scalable system improvements.

Own the end-to-end design process from conceptualization to discovery, and in some cases all the way to implementation.

Support adoption through clear guidance, design critiques, spec reviews, office hours, workshops, and release communications.

Use AI and automation to accelerate prototyping, documentation, design specs, accessibility checks, visual QA, and system maintenance.

What you'll need

Strong product design experience with a portfolio that shows high-quality UX, interaction, and visual design craft.

Experience building, maintaining, or scaling a design system within a complex product organization.

Strong systems thinking, with the ability to spot patterns, simplify complexity, and design for reuse across large product surfaces.

Working knowledge of design tokens, accessibility standards such as WCAG, and how system decisions map to frontend implementation.

Ability to partner deeply with engineers, PMs, brand designers, writers, and stakeholders to align teams without relying on authority.

AI-first builder mindset, using tools like Claude, Cursor, v0, Figma Make or similar to explore ideas, prototype, generate code, and improve system workflows.

Nice to have

Experience with Storybook, code-level component documentation, Git, or design system release workflows.

Experience with complex, data-rich SaaS products.

Expertise in Figma component architecture, variables, styles, libraries, and scalable design workf

This role may require up to 10% travel for purposes such as new hire onboarding, client or partner work if applicable, team meetings, and industry events. Travel is coordinated in advance.

Get to Know Klaviyo

We're Klaviyo (pronounced clay-vee-oh). We empower creators to own their destiny by making first-party data accessible and actionable like never before. We see limitless potential for the technology we're developing to nurture personalized experiences in ecommerce and beyond. To reach our goals, we need our own crew of remarkable creators - ambitious and collaborative teammates who stay focused on our north star: delighting our customers. If you're ready to do the best work of your career, where you'll be welcomed as your whole self from day one and supported with generous benefits, we hope you'll join us.

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