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Looking for your next Design System role?
I run a job board for Design System roles
So I counted what the 451 postings on our board ask for, listed between October 2025 and November 2026
AI shows up more as roles get more senior
| Job title | Postings | Mention AI |
|---|---|---|
| No seniority in the title | 172 | 52 % |
| Senior | 123 | 69 % |
| Lead, Staff, Principal and above | 156 | 67 % |
The jump happens at Senior
Expect AI to come up in the posting and in the interview when you apply for that title
The tools companies name
Out of all 451 postings:
- Claude: 68 postings
- Cursor: 44 postings
- MCP: 35 postings
- Agentic workflows or systems: 32 postings
- Figma Make: 15 postings
What Lead roles add on top
Lead postings ask for AI as often as Senior postings
They add two things:
- Governance: 38 % at Lead and 20 % at Senior
- Adoption or metrics: 49 % at Lead and 29 % at Senior
What I would do with this
- Pick one tool from the list and use it on your real design system work this week
- Put one AI workflow you ran in your CV and name the tool and the result
- Going for Lead? Add one governance decision and one adoption number next to it
Learn this at the AI Design Systems Conference 2027
The AI Design Systems Conference 2027 runs online on March 10 and 11 2027 with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic and Netflix
Sessions include:
- Are Design Systems Still Valuable? When people and agents build together with Ernest Tien
- Leaving the old tools behind: Building agentic design systems without Figma with Michael Schultz and Noga Enbar
- How to build a CLI for your Design System with Aimee Maroney and Hannah Clarke
How I counted
- I searched the requirements and responsibilities text of each posting for these words
- A mention does not tell you how important the skill is
- Closed roles are included
- Our job agent also searches for AI roles on purpose, so these shares describe our board and not the whole job market
