Julie Mason

Director of Design at Parkway Technologies · Design systems

Parkway Technologies

San Jose, CA · PT (UTC-8)

14+ years experience

Arizona State University

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I've spent 16 years on design systems - first at Oracle, now at Parkway Technologies. Shipped the design systems redesign that lifted task completion 25%. Cut support tickets about design systems by 46% with clearer copy and states. Most at home with design systems and prototyping. Open-source contributor on weekends.

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Building out design systems at Parkway Technologies: product designers wanted in San Jose

Role: Product designer
Level: Mid
Type: Full-time
Work mode: On-site
Compensation: $178k-$239k + equity
Team: Design systems, 5 people
Start: This quarter
Must have: A portfolio of shipped product work Comfort working directly with engineers Good judgment about what not to build
Process: Decision within 10 days

Comp $149k-$279k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

Director of Design
Mar 2024 - Present
Parkway Technologies · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
- Shipped the design systems redesign that lifted task completion 27%.
- Brought the design systems flows to WCAG 2.2 AA.
Staff Product Designer
Jul 2021 - Mar 2024
Ford · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
- Built a component library 24 engineers ship with every day.
Design Manager
Oct 2017 - Apr 2021
Chewy · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
- Built a component library 39 engineers ship with every day.
Product Designer
Mar 2014 - Oct 2017
Disney · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
- Shipped the design systems redesign that lifted task completion 23%.
- Ran 51 usability sessions and turned them into a research repository.
Product Designer
Jan 2013 - Mar 2014
Oracle · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
- Ran 98 usability sessions and turned them into a research repository.

Projects

Design systems benchmark

2025

Reproducible benchmarks comparing component libraries and prototyping on real workloads.

Side project: a commute planner

2024

Built with component libraries and tokens. 4072 people used it last year.

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Education

Arizona State University
BS, Human-Computer Interaction
2006 - 2010

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