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Talent & Teams·Team Types·Design Systems

Hire Design System Teams.

The single source of truth for how your product looks and feels.

A small squad that ships a real, used, maintained design system across your products. Tokens, components, the Figma library, the codebase library, the rituals that keep them in sync.

What this team owns

Outcomes, not activity.

  • Token system in code + Figma, kept in sync
  • Component library used by every product team
  • Migration plan from your current ad-hoc setup
  • Documentation + governance rituals
  • Adoption tracking. We measure usage, not just shipping

The shape

Who is in the team.

Design systems lead1
Design systems engineer1–2
Product designer (DS-flavoured)1

STANDS UP IN 2 weeks · FROM $36K / month

FAQ

Before you ask.

Can you work alongside our internal design team?
Yes. Most engagements are a small Lateral squad extending an existing design team.
Will you use Storybook? Tailwind? Stitches? Vanilla CSS?
Whatever your team uses. We don’t replatform design systems unless you ask us to.
How do you measure adoption?
Static analysis of your codebase + Figma usage analytics. The metric we care about is "% of product surface using DS components."

Tell us what has to move.

A 30-minute call with an engineer, not a salesperson. We will map the capacity and ownership the work actually needs.

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