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Senior Product Designer - HashiCorp Design System

IBM

IBM

Product, Design
California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA
Posted on Nov 22, 2025
Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

Your role and responsibilities

About the organization

The Front-end Experiences organization, which supports HashiCorp products, exists to enable the delivery of accessible, high-quality UIs through a focus on design systems, tooling, infrastructure, education, and culture. The organization is responsible for Helios, HashiCorp’s Design System, our accessibility program, the long-term reliability and stability of our UIs, and serves as a center of excellence, supporting all designers and front-end engineers.

About the role

As a Senior Designer, you will join a distributed team of passionate designers and engineers who design, build, and govern the Helios Design System, where you’ll primarily focus on designer enablement.

We are looking for an experienced systems thinker to drive the crucial work of migrating Helios to align with the Carbon Design System. Your success will be measured by your ability to support others in navigating this complex transition while continuing to promote consistency across our products.

What you’ll do (responsibilities)

This role requires a balance of strategic thinking, hands-on design, and cross-functional collaboration, with a strong emphasis on system evolution and adoption.

Design System Ownership & Governance:

  • Own the end-to-end design lifecycle for high-quality, enterprise-grade components and patterns in Figma.

  • Proactively identify opportunities for system improvement based on cross-product needs and industry best practices.

  • Champion accessibility and inclusive design as a core value, establishing the patterns and governance necessary to ensure system-wide conformance.

Carbon Migration:

  • Support the design mapping, technical preparation, and adoption support for migration from the Helios Design System to the Carbon Design System.

  • Collaborate directly with HashiCorp product designers and liaise with the Carbon team.

Product Team Enablement & Adoption:

  • Draft and facilitate adoption playbooks to guide product teams in moving to new Carbon-aligned components and patterns.

  • Facilitate educational workshops and office hours to support widespread adoption.

Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

  • Expert in Figma: Mastery of Figma features related to design system maintenance, component architecture, and shared library management.

  • Design System Experience: Proven track record of working on, or contributing to, a large-scale, enterprise-level Design System.

  • Deep Systems Thinking: Proven ability to manage complexity, define clear component APIs (design and code), and understand the ripple effect of design changes across a multi-product ecosystem.

  • Accessibility Expertise: Strong, actionable knowledge of WCAG standards and proven experience designing systems to ensure accessibility conformance.

  • Collaboration & Communication: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to articulate complex design decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

  • Attention to Detail: Meticulous approach to defining specifications and ensuring pixel-perfect execution.

Preferred technical and professional experience

  • Experience with the IBM Carbon Design System or previous experience leading or participating in a major Design System migration/re-platforming initiative.

  • Familiarity with front-end code (HTML, CSS, Ember, React) to facilitate smooth collaboration with engineering partners.

  • Ability to build plugins and tools using the Figma API.

  • Experience working with remote-first or highly distributed teams. Given our organization is largely distributed, we are looking for team members who perform well, given a high level of independence and autonomy.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

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