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Product Designer - Design Systems (Contract)Zello • United States
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Product Designer - Design Systems (Contract)

Zello
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Zello Design System Contractor
Zello is a voice-first communication platform, powered by our industry-leading push-to-talk technology, to improve collaboration and productivity for desk-less workers. With over 175+ million users, we're the #1 rated push-to-talk app in the world, delivering 9 billion (yes, with a B) messages a month. Zello is the leading push-to-talk communication platform, enabling instant voice communication for frontline workers across industries like logistics, hospitality, transportation, and construction. We build for the people who keep the world running — the warehouse supervisor coordinating a crew, the flight crew managing a gate turnover, the field technician working in a loud environment where clarity and speed matter. Our product has to work the first time, every time. The Role
This is a 6-month contract engagement (3-month minimum) reporting to the Manager of Product Design. You'll partner closely with our Staff Product Designer as the primary architectural counterpart for DS work across iOS, Android, and React. Day-to-day execution and prioritization within initiative scope is self-managed — Design Leadership sets direction at the initiative level; you own the work from there. As DS work matures in months 2–3 (possibly shorter), you'll take on product design projects as a full contributing member of the team. What You'll Do
Take architectural ownership of DS work across iOS, Android, and React — make decisions, document tradeoffs, and maintain a visible, current view of the backlog in Jira without needing prompting. Build and ship production-quality Figma components for iOS (UIKit/SwiftUI) and Android (Material Design 3) with genuine platform fidelity — behavioral accuracy, not just visual resemblance. Own the React token pipeline end-to-end: Style Dictionary configuration, Storybook documentation, and engineering handoff quality. Drive cross-platform consistency audits — identify gaps, resolve conflicts across platforms, and document shared conventions that outlast the engagement. Partner directly with iOS, Android, and React engineering leads to validate that Figma components map correctly to production implementations — surfacing discrepancies before they ship, not after. Define component documentation standards and write usage guidelines that engineers and designers can apply without additional walkthroughs. Identify systemic issues proactively — missing states, undocumented edge cases, token inconsistencies — and bring recommendations rather than flags. Contribute to product design work — screens, flows, and feature UX — as DS work matures (expect this to begin in earnest by months 2–3). Who You Are
You've built native iOS components with genuine UIKit/SwiftUI behavioral fidelity — not just visual resemblance to iOS patterns — and you can walk through the platform-specific decisions in your portfolio without notes. You've built Android components that are genuinely distinct from your iOS equivalents, reflecting Material Design 3 conventions, and you can discuss the Compose vs. View-based component model with an Android engineer. You've owned a React token pipeline end-to-end — architecture, Style Dictionary configuration, and the tradeoffs you made — and you can explain every decision and what you'd do differently. You've written Storybook documentation, not just referenced it, and you have examples of component docs that others have used without needing a walkthrough from you. You've held engineering leads accountable to design fidelity — you can describe a specific time you surfaced a design-to-code discrepancy before it shipped and what you did about it. You've managed your own DS backlog with minimal direction. You didn't wait to be told what mattered — you identified systemic issues, prioritized them, and communicated status proactively. You have product design work in your portfolio alongside DS artifacts — screens, flows, or features — and your approach reflects platform-appropriate judgment, not just execution of a brief. 7+ years of experience; IC-4 platform depth across iOS, Android, and React is the bar. Compensation
$105/hour · Up to 40 hours/week · 6-month contract strongly preferred (3-month minimum). Conversion to full-time is possible for contractors who perform at a high level across both DS and product design work over the engagement. This is an opportunity to earn — not an expected outcome — and will be evaluated at the end of the contract period. Zello provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. All Zello personnel are required to comply with defined security, privacy, and compliance requirements applicable to their role along with requirements that are applicable to all Zello personnel.
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