Senior Digital Product Designer, Design Systems

Sandisk understands how people and businesses consume data and we relentlessly innovate to deliver solutions that enable today’s needs and tomorrow’s next big ideas. With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in Flash and advanced memory technologies, our solutions have become the beating heart of the digital world we’re living in and that we have the power to shape. Sandisk meets people and businesses at the intersection of their aspirations and the moment, enabling them to keep moving and pushing possibility forward. We do this through the balance of our powerhouse manufacturing capabilities and our industry-leading portfolio of products that are recognized globally for innovation, performance and quality. Sandisk has two facilities recognized by the World Economic Forum as part of the Global Lighthouse Network for advanced 4IR innovations. These facilities were also recognized as Sustainability Lighthouses for breakthroughs in efficient operations. With our global reach, we ensure the global supply chain has access to the Flash memory it needs to keep our world moving forward. We're looking for a Senior Digital Product Designer, Design Systems to help scale and evolve the design system that powers our products across platforms.  This role will own the evolution of our design foundations, including design tokens, component architecture, theming capabilities, interaction patterns, accessibility standards, and implementation quality. Working closely with Product, Engineering, Brand, and Design teams, this designer will help ensure consistency, scalability, and efficiency across all customer experiences.  The ideal candidate combines strong systems thinking with deep interaction and visual design expertise, enabling them to translate complex product requirements into reusable, extensible, and developer-friendly design solutions.  How You'll Spend Your Time  This is primarily a design systems role: 80% of your time will be dedicated to owning, scaling, and evolving the design system. The remaining 20% will be spent contributing to broader product work: supporting ongoing feature improvements, designing new feature UI/UX flows, wireframing, and user testing.  ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Own and evolve our design token architecture across color, typography, spacing, motion, elevation, iconography, and semantic foundations, with strategies that hold up across themes, platforms, and future needs.  Design, document, test, and maintain reusable UI components and patterns that meet accessibility requirements and platform conventions.  Work with product designers to turn emerging product needs into system solutions, balancing consistency against product constraints.  Partner with Engineering to set implementation standards, align on component architecture and APIs, and hold quality through design QA and implementation reviews.  Scale the system across mobile, tablet, and desktop with responsive, platform-appropriate behavior, plus flexible theming, localization, and internationalization.  Spot system gaps and build solutions ahead of upcoming product work.  Set governance, documentation, and adoption standards that keep the system consistent and maintainable over time.  Educate and support designers and developers in the effective use of the design system.  Champion consistency, scalability, and design excellence by promoting system-driven thinking across teams.  Measure and continuously improve the design system's effectiveness, quality, and adoption.  Contribute to broader product design work, including new feature flows, journey mapping, wireframing, and concepting to support user testing and product exploration.  Location  This is a hybrid role based in our Milpitas, CA (SanDisk) office, with on-site work three days per week and the remaining days remote.  Why join us  As a Senior Digital Product Designer on our team, you will have the opportunity to work on foundational design work that impacts millions of users across every platform we build for. We offer a collaborative, inclusive environment where your ideas can help shape the future of how our products look, feel, and scale.   If you are passionate about building thoughtful, scalable design systems and raising the bar for design quality across an entire product ecosystem, we would love to hear from you!  Design Systems Expertise  Deep understanding of atomic design principles.  Expertise in design system architecture, including tokens, component libraries, reusable patterns, governance, and scalable cross-platform foundations.  A track record of building and evolving design systems for complex digital products, with 6+ years in product design, including 2+ years focused on design systems.  Product & UX Skills  Strong interaction and visual design skills.  Systems-thinking mindset.  Cross-platform UX experience.  Accessibility-first design approach.  Ability to balance consistency with product flexibility.  Technical Collaboration  Experience partnering closely with front-end engineers.  Strong understanding of design-to-development workflows, implementation constraints, technical tradeoffs, and design QA practices.  Tools & Process  Advanced Figma expertise, including libraries, variables, and design system management.  Strong prototyping, communication, and documentation skills.  Ability to present system decisions and influence cross-functional stakeholders.  Education & Certifications  Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Interaction Design, Visual/Graphic Design, or a related field.  Nice to have: Certifications in accessibility, UX/interaction design, or design systems–related programs.  Sandisk is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and groom