Ben Lister
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems at Netflix
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolBen Lister is a Senior Product Designer focused on design systems with 13 years of experience building and scaling systems at startups and enterprises, currently leading design systems work at Netflix. He blends hands-on product design and engineering fluency—Figma, React, TypeScript, and CSS—to prototype components, create tooling, and drive cross-functional adoption from zero to enterprise-wide usage. Ben has repeatedly led migrations, governance, and contribution frameworks that turned fragmented component sets into consistent libraries (e.g., driving Odyssey to 80+ teams at Okta and 100% Figma adoption at Gusto). He prioritizes accessibility, scalability, and measurable adoption, using dashboards, plugins, and AI-powered automations to cut manual work and accelerate uptake. Based in Oakland, he brings a player‑coach mindset: strategic system leadership paired with the willingness to code the prototypes and plugins that make adoption inevitable.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BBA in E-Business Design (CIS) Business, BBA in E-Business Design (CIS) Business at Western Michigan University
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Github Skills (3)
jquery-ui9
design-tokens7
frontend6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
benlister/utilities
Aug 2012 - Sep 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 3 pushes in 5 years 2 months
benlister/tokenator
May 2025 - Nov 2025
Contributions:15 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
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