About the position
The Experience Design systems team is looking for a product designer to help scale our design systems. As a design systems designer, you'll be growing and evolving Experiences' design systems by researching and building components, championing design system adoption, incorporating accessibility, and ensuring scalability across products and platforms.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with product designers, engineers, content designers, and accessibility specialists to enhance and expand Experiences' design systems.
- Solve complex design problems in simple and intuitive ways that scale across multiple products and platforms.
- Own design explorations on assigned tasks, identifying problems, ideating, testing, and integrating solutions that improve the broader user experience.
- Contribute to design systems improvement and growth, flexing to work independently, and/or partnering with other designers and teams.
- Build strong relationships with team members, leaders, and cross functional partners to drive collaboration and innovation on projects.
- Contribute to scaling design systems across web, mobile web, and native apps (iOS and Android), and emerging tech platforms.
- Stay updated with industry trends, emerging technologies, and design system best practices and encourage innovation to improve design efficiency and the user experience.
- Advocate for design systems best practices, including accessibility, scalability, and performance.
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of related work experience.
- Comfortable working in an agile environment with shifting priorities and ambiguity.
- Experience as a multidisciplinary product designer with in-depth knowledge of UX best practices.
- Strong communication skills: ability to articulate questions, strategy, design decisions, and updates to leaders and project team members as needed.
- Proficient in Figma: Using, building, or maintaining design systems libraries including UI foundations, components, variants, component properties, and patterns.
- Experience and understanding of developing products that prioritize accessibility.
- Ability to build interactive Figma prototypes.
- Familiar with design systems documentation.
- Experience building design systems.
- Solid understanding of front-end development technologies to effectively collaborate with engineering teams.
- Understanding of animation/motion best practices and technologies.
- Advanced skills in Figma, including tokens, variables, plugins, and prototyping.
- Experience with design systems governance processes that manage design system updates, enhancements, and version control.
Benefits
- Medical, dental & vision
- Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
- 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
- Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
- Short and long-term disability
- Health Spending Account (HSA)
- Transportation benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
