Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

About the Work

• Work closely with other product designers, product managers, engineers, and various stakeholders, to contribute to Alley-oop, our Design System.
• Create and maintain foundational patterns, UI components, and documentation, while following accessibility standards.
• Support product designers to speed up their workflows by creating reusable and adaptable interactive components that leverage variants, design tokens, and component properties.
• Anticipate how the components and styles in the system will affect those using them and optimize the Figma library accordingly.
• Advocate for Alley-oop across the organization and support cross-functional teams with its adoption.
• Effectively communicate and articulate your thoughts on your designs and processes in order to justify your design decisions.
• Being open and receptive to feedback, exploring iterations, and providing objective feedback for other product designers.
• Lead design processes including conducting user research, usability testing etc. and leveraging intelligence tools such as Amplitude for quantitative feedback.
• Always thinking about how to drive the system forward by helping to shape the roadmap and governance model in order to improve team and organizational processes.

About You

• A strong portfolio showcasing your process and experience with shaping Design Systems and full end-to-end experiences, using design thinking and user research to drive decisions. 
• You seek to develop your design leadership skills through mentorship and the way you elevate the quality of design - from actively seeking and providing feedback, communicating designs, and setting the standard for execution.
• You have experience working closely with cross-functional teams in order to discover user problems and frame them to work on the right impactful solutions.
• You’re comfortable working autonomously and proactively, while also knowing when to bring others in to move things forward quickly.
• You’re comfortable running internal or external workshops or presentations that cover complex concepts to technical and non-technical groups.
• Experience designing for web and native platforms, WCAG compliant and accessible design 
• 5+ years of experience designing digital products and experiences, including native apps for both iOS and Android
• Fluent in Figma
• Experience using Confluence and Jira to manage your work
• You have a Bachelor's Degree in Design, Interaction Design, or a related discipline 
• Identify opportunities for the system to innovate and grow
  

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package
• Fun, relaxed work environment
• Education and conference reimbursements.
• Parental leave top up
• Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others
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