Design Systems Designer

Overview

We are looking for a Senior Design Systems Designer to join our clients open design system team who is passionate about creating excellent, consistent and scalable products with the help of solid foundational components and patterns. You’ll use your rigorous understanding and practice of scalable design, creation, contribution, maintenance and migration, to help and elevate the design of their emerging digital products.

As a Design Systems specialist, you’ll participate in each step of the design process, including discovery, user research and analysis, accessibility check and usability testing, requirements definition, conceptual design, content planning, prototyping, interaction design, and interaction specification.

• Work with cross-functional teams, especially Engineering and Product Management to define user needs and interaction models in a rapidly evolving Agile environment through user stories, interaction concepts and experience storyboards/wireframes.

• Push for a data driven mindset across designs in your scope. Require and advocate for product teams and LOBs to show customer/traffic data to support feature and/or UX enhancements.

• Experience in conducting user research in the form of surveys, user interviews, and usability testing and effectively communicate research findings and conceptual ideas to project stakeholders.

• Experience in setting up and conducting A/B testing. Compile results and communicate to stakeholders.

• Communicate conceptual ideas by producing design deliverables such as sketches, annotated wireframes, user flows/task flows, and prototypes using Figma (primary tool) and/or other wireframing tools.

• Produce the best user experience while considering available site data, internal studies, industry best practices, customer research and feedback, and market analysis

• Be a champion for the customer and make understanding their requirements a constant priority.

Skills required:

• 5+ years of experience in an agency or tech/product setting, building digital products/experiences, participating in large-scale projects, communicating concepts, and executing best in class interfaces.

• 2+ years of experience designing, contributing and/or creating a Design System at scale

• Talent for working on multiple projects simultaneously, from concept to completion; exhibit flexibility and ability to explore creative solutions.

• Solid knowledge on accessibility standards

• Experience working with and proposing design tokens

• Knowledge of the different Design System frameworks and deep understanding of how interconnections work.

• Comfortable communicating with technical teams and challenging solutions.

• Communication and presentation skills. The ability to clearly present work, and articulate the rationale for the decisions that led to it.

* Please note: Whilst this is a remote working opportunity, due to the contracting nature of this role only candidates residing in EU and with the unrestricted right to work in EU will be considered.