Sr. Product Designer, Design Systems

Our Mission:

Launched in 2012, Tinder® revolutionized how people meet, growing from 1 match to one billion matches in just two years. This rapid growth demonstrates its ability to fulfill a fundamental human need: real connection. Today, the app has been downloaded over 630 million times, leading to over 97 billion matches, serving approximately 50 million users per month in 190 countries and 45+ languages - a scale unmatched by any other app in the category. In 2024, Tinder won four Effie Awards for its first-ever global brand campaign, “It Starts with a Swipe”™

The Team

The Obsidian Design System team is a core function of the product org, focused on improving consistency, efficiency, and scalability. Our team is a tightly knit group who cares deeply about quality and stying in tune with our consuming teams’ needs.

As a Senior Product Designer at Tinder you will have a deep level of experience building product design systems, seasoned communication skills and a strong design passion for evangelizing the design system across the organization.

Where you'll work:This position can be located in Los Angeles or San Francisco, CA.

What You'll Do:

• Design and deliver key design system artifacts, including but not limited to components, patterns, tooling, documentation, training, and presentations.
• Independently identifies user problems and opportunities and consistently influences project scope to ensure prioritization of our consuming teams (Product Designers and Engineers) and their needs.
• Facilitate and drive cross-pillar discussions and meetings, bringing together designers, engineers, and product managers to drive cohesion across the entire product experience.
• Create design system solutions for inclusivity, ensuring alignment with accessibility standards and principles.
• Invite and collect a range of feedback across teams, synthesizing and narrowing in on solutions that balance your recommendation, the needs of stakeholders, Tinder’s brand, best practices, platform standards, and our users.  
• Effectively navigate intricate and ambiguous project requirements within a design systems framework, accommodating diverse inputs, and occasionally conflicting stakeholder demands.
• Proactively shape the design system roadmap and goals by providing input from our feature team’s perspectives, and ensure the team is pursuing achievable, measurable, and impactful goals.
• Identify when new patterns and systems are necessary. Socialize and gain buy-in for new patterns from owners and cross-pillar stakeholders.
• Collaborate closely with design system engineers to simplify implementation, while maximizing the user experience of our product designers
• Position yourself as a key decision maker on the design system team, responsible for decisions of significant impact to the overall user experience and business.
• Assume a leadership role on the design system team and Product Design team, modeling positive design team culture.

About You:

• 3+ years of professional experience working on mobile design systems across product design and engineering teams.
• 5+ years of professional experience as a product or UX designer.
• A passion for system designs and deep knowledge of iOS/Material/Desktop standards.
• Experience establishing, maintaining, contributing to, or utilizing a design system.
• Self-starter attitude with excitement to work in a fast-paced and low-ego environment.
• Skilled with conflict resolution.
• A strong cross-functional partner and great communicator.
• Strong storytelling skills with confidence presenting in large forums and to senior management
• Excellence in visual design.
• Generous with your time and knowledge and like to mentor junior designers

As a full-time employee, you’ll enjoy:

• Unlimited PTO (with no waiting period), 10 annual Wellness Days
• Time off to volunteer and charitable donations matched up to $15,000 annually 
• Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage
• 100% 401(k) employer match up to 10%, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• 100% paid parental leave (including for non-birthing parents), family forming benefits, and Milk Stork, which provides access to breast milk shipping for business travel, surrogacy, and employee relocation
• Investment in your development: mentorship through our MentorMatch program, access to 6,000+ online courses through Udemy, and an annual $3,000 stipend for your professional development
• Investment in your wellness: access to mental health support via Modern Health, BetterHelp, and Insight Timer; paid concierge medical membership, pet insurance, fitness membership subsidy, and commuter subsidy
• Free subscription to Tinder Gold