Ben Lister is a product designer focused on designing, building, and scaling design systems.

Currently I'm a Senior Product Designer at Netflix, working on enterprise design systems and designing with AI — helping hundreds of internal product teams move faster. Previously, I was a Staff Product Designer at Okta, scaling their design system to 80+ teams, and at Gusto, where I named and branded their design system, Workbench, modernized the Figma library, built and led the documentation site, and drove adoption across design and engineering. I joined Sprout Social as their first design hire — a hybrid designer and developer — co-created Seeds, and founded and led their design system team through their IPO.

Outside of work, I'm an adventurous home cook, a passion from my family's restaurant kitchen in Michigan. After 15 frozen winters years in Chicago, I now live in Oakland, CA, with my family and our two wild and crazy Whippets, Devo and Phoebe. I enjoy hiking, cycling, and (often regretfully) rooting for the Chicago White Sox.