Lead Designer, Design Systems

Build the world's fastest Identity and Checkout products

Company Mission

Our mission is to make buying online faster, safer and easier for everyone. Fast Login and Fast Checkout enable a one-click sign-in and purchasing experience that makes it easier for people to buy and merchants to sell. The company's products work on any browser, device or platform to deliver a consistent, stress-free purchasing experience. Fast is entirely consumer-focused and invests heavily in its users' privacy and data security. Headquartered in San Francisco but open to globally remote, we are a founders-led, privately held company funded by Stripe, Index Ventures, Susa Ventures and other world-class investors.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion, and demonstrate our values through equitable pay, fantastic benefits, and access to all reasonable accommodations.

Summary

We are looking for a self-directed Designer to lead efforts to build, maintain and optimize Fast's first ever Design System from the ground up and ensure we have the best form user experience on the market. We are shaping a new, frictionless online purchasing experience and creating an easier internet. To do that, a world-class user experience and form interaction design will be essential. Our Design Systems Designer will work with a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers and designers to create that system, it's components, and stress test it out in the world, while also contributing on key in-flight product initiatives.

Role

Collaborate with a cross-functional team to design, maintain and optimize the Fast product's key shared components, a design system library and to work with engineers to create an in-code extension.

• Deliver polished, delightful and effective UI and multi-state components for our web and mobile visual products
• Be an influential expert across the full range of Design, helping identify opportunities to improve our system, its components, and its internal and external impact
• Join in system design conversations with partners in product and engineering to build solutions and processes
• Come to Design Reviews and provide guidance to teams on how to improve their designs to better support or evolve towards the design system.
• Pitch concepts and present vision on systems design to leadership and stakeholders
• Scope projects and collaborate on the overall Systems product roadmap
• Report team and systems progress regularly to relevant stakeholders
• Draft clear, concise but comprehensive documentation for the system and its components to drive understanding and alignment across teams

Requirements:

• You are a strong systems thinker with hands-on experience contributing to design systems libraries, from building adoption to guiding contribution and maintaining component libraries.
• A portfolio of your design work with stories of how your contributions led to the creation of or quantifiable improvements to a design system for design teams and engineering
• Demonstrable strength in interface, interaction and UX design, with a focus on form, consumer and/or payments products
• You bring clarity to the vision and simultaneously care deeply about the details.
• A user-centered approach to designing software for people

Good judgment and self-direction

A collaborative, low-ego approach to working with others

You are comfortable working with front end engineering teams for web and mobile user interfaces, including participating in code reviews and QA, and want to forge a strong relationship.

You are strongly principled but not dogmatic. You are comfortable owning the design system while being comfortable letting the Design teams own its application and evolution through daily projects. You are opinionated about its use, but recognize the needs of the real world to evolve and stress test the system for you.

Plus

E-commerce, payments, and/or identity experience
no recruiters please*

Benefits of life @ Fast

• Fast Flex allows all of our employees to choose where they want to work: our office (when open), their home or any place else in the world.
• Early stage well-funded company with innovative engineering and product culture
• Inclusion and diversity as a company priority
• Competitive compensation packages
• Comprehensive benefits (including 99% of healthcare cost and 401k matching)
• Home office reimbursements and snack deliveries (and awesome swag!)