Ben Lister is a product designer and design engineer focused on designing, building, and scaling design systems.
I'm a Senior Product Designer at Netflix, working on enterprise design systems and designing for and with AI to help 1000+ internal product teams build 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've loved cooking since growing up in my family's
restaurant kitchen in Michigan, and I've been chasing the
perfect New Haven–New York hybrid pizza recipe. I also love to travel and seek out great places to eat — I've
been building
a list of restaurants
for everywhere I go for years. After many
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, endurance sports, and (often
regretfully) rooting for the Chicago White Sox.