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.

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.

P.S. If you don’t tick every box in this ad, please don’t rule yourself out. We take pride in inclusion and hiring incredible human beings with great potential over ticking boxes – so if this role resonates with you, hit that apply button!

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 the need for some collaboration outside of your usual 9-5 being a global company, but we aim to work asynchronously where possible.

How we’ll help you 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 set up - 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. Join us in empowering everyone from businesses to creatives in building their online presence.

At Linktree, 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, because we believe in going further together. Linktree welcomes all people regardless of sex, gender identity, race, ethnicity, disability, pregnancy, age, or other lived experience. 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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