Principal Product Designer - Design Systems & Editorial Platforms Jobs

Principal Product Designer - Design Systems & Editorial Platforms

Hearst

Editorial Experience & Design Systems Design and refine scalable editorial experiences across web, mobile, and emerging platforms Evolve Hearst's design system - patterns, components, tokens, and interaction paradigms - balancing consistency with brand expression Keep Figma libraries and front-end implementations in sync Define content presentation standards: typography, layout grids, multimedia integration, and responsive behaviors Establish documentation and governance practices that drive confident adoption Treat the design system as a living product, continuously refined through usage and feedback AI Enablement Prototype AI-supported workflows for design systems and editorial tools Identify opportunities for AI to automate repetitive work, improve accessibility testing, enhance localization, and support intelligent pattern reuse Build toward an AI-ready architecture - structured components, metadata, and tokens that scale Partner with Engineering to evaluate and integrate emerging tools thoughtfully Collaboration & Influence Work closely with engineers as a design thought partner from problem definition through implementation Partner with Editorial, Product, Commerce, and Ad teams to translate needs into scalable system solutions Influence product roadmaps through systems-level insight Mentor designers and elevate systems thinking across the organization Accessibility & Quality Embed WCAG 2.