Anthropic
Product Designer, Design Systems
$305K–$385K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 8+ years of product design experience is listed as a preferred qualification. The posting also says required years correlate with internal job-level requirements.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience. Required field of study: a field relevant to the role, as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is offered, but not guaranteed for every role or candidate; if an offer is made, Anthropic says it will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa.
About the job
Design and evolve Anthropic’s shared design system across Claude products, including its visual foundations, components, expressive elements, and guidance that helps Claude generate UI correctly.
What you'll do
- Develop design-system foundations and components, including color, typography, spacing, icons, tokens, theming, menus, dialogs, sidebars, and the chat composer.
- Create system-wide motion, illustration, and icon patterns; define guidance, metadata, and evaluations for Claude’s use of the system.
- Partner with product teams and engineers to apply the system, prototype in code, and ship updates to the design-system package.
What they ask for
- Strong visual and interaction craft.
- Experience building or working on a design system.
- Experience with design tokens, theming, and accessibility standards.
- Fluency in tools that communicate ideas quickly, from Figma to code.
Nice to have
- Experience shipping highly crafted products; beyond-the-screen or voice work and native mobile instincts.
- Experience designing an icon set, illustration style, or motion system used across products, or defining evaluations, lint rules, or automated UI-quality checks.
Pay
$305,000 — $385,000 USD (annual salary; base salary)
Tools
Figma, Claude Code
AI focus
Design system guidance, metadata, and evaluations to help Claude generate UI and use the system correctly; use Claude Code in the designer’s own practice.
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative