Product Designer, Design Systems

San Francisco · USD 305,000-385,000 / year · 8+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Sep 22, 2026

At a glance

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

Design at Anthropic sits at the intersection of craft, research, and product intuition.
The Design Systems team exists to define and elevate the language of our UI and core interactions.
You would be joining an early-stage team, working with design engineers and product designers across the company.

Design and evolve the system, from foundations to components like menus, dialogs, sidebars and the chat composer.
Design the expressive layer as a system, not one-offs: motion, illustration and icons that are brand and system at once.
Make the system legible to Claude as well as people: the guidance, metadata and evals that show whether Claude uses it correctly.
Partner with product teams: help designers and engineers apply the system well, and feed recurring gaps back into the system.
Prototype in code and ship: land changes in the design-system package alongside engineers, using Claude Code in your own practice.

Strong visual and interaction craft.
Experience building or working on a design system.
Experience with design tokens, theming and accessibility standards.
Fluency in whichever tool gets an idea across fastest, from Figma to code.
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Experience building products at the highest level of craft.
Has shipped voice or other beyond-the-screen work, with native mobile instincts.
Has designed an icon set, illustration style or motion system used across products.
Experience defining evals, lint rules or automated checks for UI quality.
8+ years of product design experience.

Location-based hybrid policy requiring staff to be in the office at least 25% of the time, though some roles may require more.