Sr. Design Systems Designer

We’re looking for problem solvers, innovators, and dreamers who are searching for anything but business as usual. Like us, you’re a high performer who’s an expert at your craft, constantly challenging the status quo. You value inclusivity and want to join a culture that empowers you to show up as your authentic self. You know that success hinges on commitment, that our differences make us stronger, and that the finish line is always sweeter when the whole team crosses together.

Position: Sr. Design System Designer Location: US
At Alteryx, we believe that analytics can empower all employees to make faster, more insightful, and more confident decisions — regardless of technical skill level. With our low-code, no-code platform and easy drag-and-drop capabilities, everyone can move on from report building and say hello to data storytelling. Alteryx is headquartered in Irvine, California, and has additional offices across the globe.
Overview: 
The Alteryx UX team is seeking a Senior Design System Designer to play a critical role in advancing our Onyx Design System. You will partner with fellow designers, engineers, accessibility experts, and brand teams to shape and scale a cohesive user experience across our platform.
In this role, you’ll focus on the design, documentation, and evolution of components and patterns within Figma. As a senior individual contributor, you'll help drive adoption, influence standards, and support system-wide consistency, ensuring that the Onyx system continues to meet the needs of product teams and end users. You’ll work in close partnership with others across the UX organization to ensure our design system is robust, intuitive, and future-proof.
Please provide a portfolio when applying to this position.
Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the evolution and maintenance of the Onyx Design System in Figma, with a focus on high-quality components, patterns, tokens, and documentation.

• Ensure visual consistency, clarity, and craftsmanship across system components by applying strong foundational principles in layout, color, typography, and hierarchy.

• Help lead visual standards discussions across the UX organization, advocating for elevated visual quality and consistency across products and platforms.

• Conduct audits of in-product visual design, identify areas of visual drift or inconsistency, and propose system-based solutions to resolve them.

• Partner closely with engineers to ensure components are implemented with visual precision, accessibility, and scalability in mind.

• Drive adoption of the system by evangelizing best practices across product design, engineering, and brand teams.

• Act as a mentor to other product and system designers, offering design critiques, onboarding, and training.

• Partner with accessibility, content, localization, and brand teams to ensure inclusive and scalable system foundations.

• Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve system tooling, documentation, and developer experience.

• Advocate for the strategic value of design systems at team and organizational levels.

• Advocate for a system-first mindset through design critiques, internal presentations, and informal coaching.

Requirements: 

• 5+ years of experience in product design, with at least 2 years focused on contributing to design systems.

• Proficiency in Figma, including component architecture, variants, tokens, libraries, and design file organization.

• A strong portfolio that demonstrates thoughtful contributions to a shared design system, including documentation and collaboration with engineering.

• Experience working in cross-functional teams and influencing design outcomes at the platform or pattern level.

• Familiarity with WCAG accessibility principles and how they apply to system components.

• Clear and effective communicator—able to articulate rationale, gather alignment, and advocate for system goals across teams.

• Experience working on complex or enterprise-scale products is highly valued.

• Bonus: Experience contributing to or collaborating with DesignOps functions—such as improving design workflows, tooling, documentation practices, or system governance—is highly valued.

Compensation

Alteryx is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent compensation. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as your relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location. 

The base salary range for this role in California, Colorado, Washington, Texas, and Rhode Island is $139,475to $160,300.

In addition, you may be eligible for other compensation, such as a bonus. Employees may also be eligible for a wide range of other benefits, including medical, retirement, financial, wellness, time off, employee discounts, and others.

Find yourself checking a lot of these boxes but doubting whether you should apply? At Alteryx, we support a growth mindset for our associates through all stages of their careers. If you meet some of the requirements and you share our values, we encourage you to apply. As part of our ongoing commitment to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace, we’re invested in building teams with a wide variety of backgrounds, identities, and experiences.

Find yourself checking a lot of these boxes but doubting whether you should apply? At Alteryx, we support a growth mindset for our associates through all stages of their careers. If you meet some of the requirements and you share our values, we encourage you to apply. As part of our ongoing commitment to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace, we’re invested in building teams with a wide variety of backgrounds, identities, and experiences.

Benefits & Perks:

Alteryx has amazing benefits for all Associates which can be viewed here.

This position involves access to software/technology that is subject to U.S. export controls. Any job offer made will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls.