Senior Design Systems Designer

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That's why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

GEICO is looking for an accomplished, customer-obsessed, and results oriented Senior Design System Designer. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working with a variety of business partners and delivering design solutions. Collaborates with customers, engineers, and product management to determine design requirements, create mockups, user workflows, conduct user research, and provide feedback.

As a Senior UX/UI designer on our Design Systems team, you will be responsible for co-leading the evolution and maintenance of GEICOs design system, Hue, with a special focus on supporting expansion into mobile. You will ensure accessibility, consistency, and efficiency in the GEICO ecosystem while representing our design system across the design organization and mentoring peer designers.

You will work directly with product management to develop solutions that achieve our customer and business needs. You will be part of a multi-disciplinary design and research team that values people, human-centered design and a growth mindset.

This position is a hybrid role that requires to be on-site 3 days a week at one of the following locations:  Chevy Chase, MD; New York City, NY; Chicago, IL; San Jose, CA; Fredericksburg/Richmond, VA, Seattle, WA

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborates with designers, product managers, and engineers to evolve and maintain GEICO's design system

• Contributes to the creation and refinement of mobile UI components, patterns, and template libraries, ensuring each element meets craft quality and accessibility standards, and models a systematic approach to design

• Understands, navigates, and demonstrates the horizontal nature of designing and building UX foundations

• Advocates for accessibility, usability, and clarity in our product experience using human-centered design methods, including discovery, research, and user testing

• Provides guidelines and other documentation to support users in adopting the system well

• Helps define governance strategies for components and templates, ensuring usability, accessibility, and reusability across the ecosystem

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience (or 3+ with Masters degree) with User Experience design

• Significant experience with design systems at scale. Bonus points for mobile design systems

• Highly skilled in Figma, including UI tokens, component creation, library management, and plugin usage

• Experience with accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG) and how they apply to design systems

• Experience with design system governance, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and maintaining alignment across verticals

• Experience managing contributions from designers and engineers, ensuring alignment with accessibility and quality standards

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing for cross channel e.g. responsive web and native mobile interfaces

• Proven ability to write and design user-friendly documentation for a wide audience

• Ability to collaborate with Product Management, Engineering and Operations teams

• Effective communication and storytelling skills

• Familiarity with working in an agile development framework

Annual Salary

$104,550.00 - $172,200.00

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate's work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life's twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we're constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We're an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers' expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you'll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people's lives.

Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career - and your potential - in mind. You'll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family's overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.