Design Systems Advocate (Partnerships) - US - East Coast

$140k - $160k + equity US - East Coast | Full-time | Remote-first We’re a team of 50+ building the market leading design system platform. zeroheight enables teams to document, deliver, measure and manage their design systems seamlessly – all in one central hub. Thousands of companies – including 20% of the Fortune 100 – trust us as their design system source of truth, and we’re just getting started. Join us on our mission to build the AI era design systems management platform and enable every product team in the world to ship great products 10x faster 🚀 We're fully remote (no permanent office) – everything we do is set up so working remotely is seamless. You can read more in our remote-first playbook . 🚀 About the role At zeroheight, we sit at the centre of the design systems ecosystem. Teams rely on us to document, share, and scale their systems — and the toolchain around us is evolving fast. AI is reshaping how designers and developers work. MCP integrations are opening new workflows. Practitioners and stakeholders are hungry for guidance as AI-driven product development blurs the line between design and engineering — and significantly increases the value of design systems. We need someone who can represent that story loudly and credibly — and who already has the trust of the community to do it. This is a hybrid of two roles — design systems advocate and partner marketing manager. You'll advocate for design systems and for zeroheight's place in the ecosystem, while owning the partner relationships and co-marketing that keep it growing. You'll work closely with our Principal Design Systems Advocate, sharing responsibility for how zeroheight shows up in the community. The partnerships remit is yours to own; the broader advocacy work is collaborative. 🛠️ What you'll own 🤝 Partnerships & co-marketing Own the full partner lifecycle: identifying and developing relationships with SaaS tools we integrate with, emerging AI products we can integrate with, and communities where there's a natural audience overlap with zeroheight. Proactively spot and shape partnership opportunities. You’ll identify co-marketing and integration opportunities beyond existing relationships, knowing when to run with them and when to bring in product — while working closely with the CEO to build and deepen relationships with key partners. Design and execute co-marketing campaigns: joint webinars, co-authored content, newsletter features, event activations, and more. Track and report on co-marketing campaign success. 🎤 Advocacy & thought leadership Be a credible, visible voice in the design systems community — writing, speaking, and participating in our own and external communities. Create educational content around design systems best practices, zeroheight, and our integrations, with a strong focus on how we support AI-driven product development workflows. Technically curious and hands-on with AI. You’ve fully embraced this space — not just observing it, but actively using and building with AI. You’re comfortable creating your own tools, demos, and experiments, which gives you real credibility when developing partnerships in this ecosystem. Work alongside our Principal Design Systems Advocate to represent zeroheight in the community — dividing and collaborating on content, events, and conversations based on where each of you can add most value. Represent zeroheight at industry conferences and events — proactively identifying opportunities where our audience will be. Stay ahead of how AI is changing design systems — MCPs, AI-assisted component generation, prototyping tools — and use that to inform your content and conversations. Engage with communities across social, Slack, forums, and wherever practitioners congregate. Work alongside our Principal Design Systems Advocate on advocacy that sits outside of partnerships — sharing responsibilities across content, events, and community based on where each of you can add most value. 💼 Commercial & internal support Join sales and customer success calls to bring domain expertise and help navigate complex design systems challenges to help unblock teams, deepen product understanding, and strengthen relationships. Act as a source of partner and ecosystem intelligence, surfacing use cases, emerging workflows, and unmet needs to support product marketing, product, and commercial teams, and inform partnership strategy. ✨ Who you are ⭐ Essential You're a design systems practitioner — you've built or maintained one and you think like an engineer or designer. Your credibility comes from having done the work. You're commercially minded enough to own partner relationships end-to-end and tie your work to pipeline. You're a strong communicator — equally at home writing a long-form post, presenting at a conference, or hosting a webinar. You're energised by AI's impact on design systems and can speak confidently about where it's headed — MCPs, AI coding tools, generative design, and the implications for how teams work. You're proactive and self-directed. You identify opportunities before being asked, and can act on them by building and shipping yourself. Based in the UK and can visit London four times a year for offsites (travel covered) 👍 Nice to have You have an existing audience: a following, a community presence, or a body of published work that means you're already known and trusted in the space. Experience in a formal partner marketing role. Familiarity with B2B SaaS go-to-market. Experience working cross-functionally with product, sales, customer success, and marketing in a startup environment. 🔥 5 reasons to apply You already care about this. Design systems aren't a job category to you — they're something you've thought and written and argued about. This role is built for that person. You bring your audience with you. We're not asking you to build from zero. You'll come in with existing trust and we'll give you the platform and resource to amplify it. You’ll be right at the frontier. If you’re excited about AI and design, this role puts you at the cutting edge — building relationships with pioneering teams like Cursor and OpenAI, and spending your time where the future of design systems is being shaped. You'll own something real. Full ownership of partner relationships and your advocacy programme, with a direct line to commercial outcomes. You'll be joining a category leader. Backed by Y Combinator, Tribe Capital, and Adobe. Practitioners already know who we are — you'll have a springboard, not a standing start. 🥗 Benefits Find out more about our team and company perks here 😊 🖼 More about zeroheight Learn more about us on the About us page. 🤝 Process At zeroheight, we value efficiency and simplicity in everything we do. Here’s what you can expect: 1. Submit your application Briefly tell us why you’re interested and how your previous experience aligns with the role. 2. Intro chat (45 mins, video) A casual conversation to get to know each other and learn more about your background. 3. Take-home task After the intro chat, we’ll share a short task designed to reflect the kind of work you’d do in the role. 4. Experience deep dive (60 mins, video) We’ll review your task together and dive deeper into your experience. 5. Values interview (60 mins, video) A call with two members of our leadership team, which includes a deep dive into your values and how they align with us and how you work. 💖 Our DEI Statement At zeroheight we live and breathe our values, building an inclusive and diverse team is what makes us great. We are proud of the culture we’ve created and by embracing individuality we continue to add to our culture. We look to hire the best, give an amazing experience throughout and we don’t discriminate against who or what you are. Our employees are encouraged to be their authentic selves, allowing us to celebrate our differences and learn from one another. All we ask is that you be yourself, love what you do and give 100%. Take a look at our current DEI stats here .