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We’re seeking a highly skilled Design Systems Lead to take full ownership of our Linktree design system. This critical role will accelerate our product velocity, ensure design consistency, and strengthen engineer-designer collaboration across the organization. Acting as a key part of our Design Leadership team, you will collaborate with key product design and engineering stakeholders to define, evolve, and govern our system—bringing it from a powerful nascent concept to production-ready implementation.
What You’ll Own Design System Strategy & Leadership: Lead the roadmap and development of Linktree design system: audit existing components, identify gaps, and prioritize new features for maximum impact.
Engineering-Ready Design: Build system components that are not only visually coherent but also intuitively engineered—from structure to naming conventions to documentation.
Cross-Functional Advocacy: Partner with designers, engineers, and product managers to ensure the system is adopted consistently across product areas—from AI concepting to final UI.
Governance & Documentation: Create comprehensive guidelines, usage patterns, accessibility standards, and contribution workflows to maintain quality and consistency.
Continuous Iteration & Growth: Regularly refine Linktree design system based on real-world needs, new product directions, and emerging design patterns or technology.
What We’re Looking For Demonstrated experience designing and rolling out production-level design systems at scale—bonus if you led large consumer platform systems.
A designer-first mindset, with obsessive attention to detail and a belief that design systems are “only systems once they’re in code.”
A demonstrable track record of strong, collaborative engineering partnerships—where your design system became easy to adopt, use, and scale in real-world builds.
Familiarity with component libraries, token systems, documentation platforms, and cross-functional workflows.
Excellent communicator and advocate: you\'re comfortable evangelizing the value and usage of design systems across distributed teams.
A burning desire to push the world of design systems into a new age through leveraging cutting edge AI approaches to building and scaling systems.
Compensation Linktree is committed to providing a competitive compensation package. Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $200,000 - $230,000 in the San Francisco Bay or Los Angeles area. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate expertise, the scope of role and level, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Where And How We Work We are a global and diverse group offering a truly flexible and family friendly work environment. Kids, pets, and the occasional delivery person are all actively encouraged to appear on our Zoom screens. All of us at Linktree work either fully remote or a flex hybrid approach. We offer autonomy and flexibility in how you structure your days and weeks. There will be a need for some collaboration outside of your usual 9-5 being a global company, but we aim to work asynchronously where possible.
How You’ll Thrive Our approach to benefits considers the whole person and the unique contributions they bring to Linktree. We want the experience at Linktree to be one that enables people to truly thrive so we can Go Further Together. Some ways we support you:
An annual wellbeing allowance to use on things like (but not limited to) fitness memberships, development courses, childcare, travel, charitable donations, pet insurance, home office setup - the choice is yours!
100% coverage (and 80% for your dependents) of your monthly premiums for medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance for US-based employees.
Employer contribution towards your retirement.
Generous time off for vacation, holidays, parental leave, volunteer time and other categories.
Employee Stock Option Program - we want each and every employee to share in the company’s success as we go further together.
To learn more about our benefits, including our parental leave program, volunteering leave, DE&I initiatives, and more, click here!
Our Story We\'re on a mission to empower anyone to curate, grow and monetize their digital universe. We created the "link in bio" category and are trusted by some of the world\'s biggest brands and celebrities including TikTok, The UN Environmental Program, The White House, F1, Manchester United, Olivia Rodrigo and Selena Gomez. With over 50M+ users and 40,000 new accounts created everyday, Linktree is the fastest growing leader in our category. Linktree has partnered with some of today’s biggest names like Amazon, TikTok, Snap, YouTube, GoFundMe, Spotify, Google, Stripe, Reddit and more to help unify users’ digital spaces— and we’re just getting started. We celebrate and support everyone’s perspective and background, and we’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We aim to foster a diverse and inclusive environment where all team members have a sense of belonging. If you require accommodations to fully participate in our opportunities, please don\'t hesitate to reach us at talent@linktr.ee – your needs are important to us.
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In Summary: The Design Systems Lead will lead the roadmap and development of Linktree design system . The role will accelerate product velocity, ensure design consistency, and strengthen engineer-designer collaboration across the organization . The cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $200,000 - $230,000 in the San Francisco Bay or Los Angeles area .
En Español: Únete a Linktree para solicitar el puesto de Líder de Sistemas de Diseño. Buscamos un líder de sistemas de diseño altamente calificado que tome plena propiedad de nuestro sistema de diseños Linktree. Este papel crítico acelerará la velocidad de nuestros productos, garantizará la consistencia del diseño y fortalecerá la colaboración ingeniero-diseñador en toda la organización. Actuando como una parte clave de nuestro equipo de liderazgo en diseño, colaborarás con las principales partes interesadas en el diseño de producto e ingeniería para definir, evolucionar y gobernar nuestro sistema, llevándolo desde un concepto naciente poderoso hasta una implementación lista para su uso. Lo que vas a crear Estrategia y Liderazgo de Sistema de Diseñar: Liderar la hoja de ruta y desarrollo del sistema de diseñamiento Linktree: auditar los componentes existentes, identificar patrones y priorizar nuevas características para lograr el máximo impacto. Una experiencia demostrada en el diseño y despliegue de sistemas de diseño a nivel de producción a escala bonos si lidera grandes sistemas de plataformas para consumidores. Un pensamiento diseñador-primero, con una atención obsesiva al detalle y la creencia de que los sistemas del diseño son solo sistemas una vez que están en código. Todos nosotros en Linktree trabajamos a distancia o un enfoque híbrido flexible. Ofrecemos autonomía y flexibilidad en la forma en que estructuras tus días y semanas. Habrá una necesidad de alguna colaboración fuera de tu habitual 9-5 siendo una empresa global, pero nuestro objetivo es trabajar sincrónicamente cuando sea posible. Cómo prosperar Nuestro enfoque de beneficios considera toda la persona y las contribuciones únicas que aportan a Linktree. Queremos que la experiencia en Link Tree sea uno que permita a las personas verdaderamente crecer para poder ir más juntos. Algunas formas te apoyamos: Un subsidio anual de bienestar para usar en cosas como (pero no limitado a) membresías físicas, cursos de desarrollo, cuidado infantil, donaciones caritativas, seguro de crecimiento, instalación de oficinas domésticas - ¡la opción depende del 100%! ¡El éxito de los empleados por su vida médica, discapacidad, vacaciones en EE.UU.! Creamos la categoría "link in bio" y somos confiados por algunas de las marcas más grandes del mundo, incluyendo TikTok, The UN Environment Program, The White House, F1, Manchester United, Olivia Rodrigo y Selena Gomez. Con más de 50 millones de usuarios y 40.000 nuevas cuentas creadas todos los días, Linktree es el líder en rápido crecimiento en nuestra categoría. Linktree se ha asociado con algunos de los nombres más importantes de hoy en día como Amazon, TikTok, Snap, YouTube, GoFundMe, Spotify, Google, Stripe, Reddit y otros para ayudar a unificar los espacios digitales y estamos comenzando. Celebramos y apoyamos a todos 's y antecedentes, y nos sentimos orgullosos de ser un lugar de trabajo equitativo.