Staff Product Designer

Cherry | Individual Contributor

About the Role

Cherry is looking for a Staff Product Designer to own our design system, end to end, from the Figma components to the production React code. This is not a traditional design systems role and it's not a traditional engineering role. It's both. We're looking for someone who lives at the intersection of visual design and front-end engineering, someone who cares about the pixel and the code equally, and who can make our components the reason Cherry ships better products, faster.

Cherry's design system spans five products: our provider web application, our consumer web application, our provider mobile application, our consumer mobile application, and our point-of-sale system. You'll own the system that unifies all of them: the component library in Figma, the React codebase, the interaction patterns, the documentation, and the strategy for how it all scales. You'll write production code. You'll push it. You'll test it. You'll maintain code hygiene and hold the bar on quality. And you'll do all of this with a designer's eye for interaction, motion, and visual craft.

You'll work with our front-end engineering team in Turkey as close partners, collaborating on implementation and architecture. You'll work with our broader engineering org to ensure components are robust, well-tested, and easy to adopt. And you'll work with our product design team as your primary stakeholders, understanding their needs, guiding them in how to leverage the system, and enabling them to make changes confidently.

We're moving toward a future where anyone at Cherry can prototype quickly with our components, where teams can build cohesive products with minimal experience risk because the system is that strong. This role is how we get there. You'll have significant impact on Cherry's capacity to scale the development of high-quality, cohesive experiences for years to come.

What You'll Do

Design System Ownership

• Own the full design system: Figma component library, React component codebase, interaction patterns, tokens, and documentation

• Write, ship, and maintain production React code with strong code hygiene, testing practices, and clear architecture

• Define the interaction and visual design language for Cherry's component library, ensuring every component is crafted with precision

• Build components that are robust, flexible, and scalable, enabling teams to ship cohesive experiences without reinventing patterns

Design Tools & Modern Workflows

• Work fluently across design and engineering tools, including Figma or Pencil, and AI-assisted development tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex

• Bridge the gap between design and engineering workflows, ensuring the system works seamlessly in both environments

• Establish workflows that allow the design system to evolve quickly while maintaining quality and consistency

• Build toward a future where every team at Cherry can prototype rapidly using production-ready components

Cross-Team Partnership

• Partner closely with our front-end engineering team in Turkey on component architecture, implementation, and code review

• Work with the broader engineering org to ensure components are easy to adopt, well-documented, and production-ready

• Serve the product design team as their primary design system partner, understanding what they need and guiding them in how to use and contribute to the system

• Enable product designers to work within the system confidently, making changes and building with components rather than working around them

Strategy & Scalability

• Own the strategy for how Cherry's design system scales, both the component library and the processes around it

• Define the roadmap for new components, pattern evolution, and system-level improvements

• Ensure the system reduces experience risk across all five products, so that using Cherry's components naturally produces cohesive, high-quality output regardless of the surface

• Advocate for the long-term health of the system, balancing team requests with architectural integrity and scalability

What You Bring

• 5-8+ years of experience spanning product design and front-end engineering, with demonstrated strength in both disciplines

• Deep proficiency in React, with strong opinions on component architecture, testing, and code quality

• Expert-level skills in design tools like Figma or Pencil, including component design, variants, tokens, and design system management

• A sharp eye for visual and interaction design: spacing, motion, hierarchy, and the details that make components feel polished

• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex, and an eagerness to integrate them into design system workflows

• Experience building and maintaining a design system that's used by multiple teams in production

• Strong understanding of front-end testing practices and code hygiene

• The ability to work across disciplines, communicating fluently with designers, engineers, and product leaders

• Experience collaborating with distributed or international engineering teams

You're Probably a Great Fit If...

• People can't quite figure out if you're a designer or an engineer, and you like it that way

• You've built a component library where the Figma source and the React code were both yours, and you held the quality bar on each

• You get genuinely frustrated when a component has the wrong padding, and equally frustrated when the code behind it isn't tested

• You think about design systems not as a style guide but as infrastructure that determines how fast and how well a company can build

• You've seen what happens when a design system is done right, entire teams shipping faster with fewer inconsistencies, and you want to build that

About Cherry

Cherry is a patient financing platform that connects consumers with healthcare providers, making care more accessible and practice growth more achievable. Our product spans consumer-facing payment experiences, provider-facing business tools, and the infrastructure that ties them together. Design at Cherry is not a service function. It's a strategic lever, and this role builds the foundation that every product experience is made from.