Senior Product Experience Designer - Design Systems

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Senior Product Experience Designer - Design Systems

As a Senior Product Experience Designer - Design Systems in Mastercard, you will thrive at the intersection of design, data, and technology. You will have the unique opportunity to shape the identity and form of the constantly evolving Design System for Mastercard's digital products.

Working across multiple product areas and cross-functional partners, you will drive the strategic implementation of the design system with the goal of ensuring high consistency, scalability, and ease of rapid prototyping while solving the specific user problem at hand.

Occasionally, you will also be able to participate in design thinking workshops for new products and contribute to delivering quality design assets. If you have a passion for creating great user experiences, an understanding of component-based architectures, and a desire to be a part of building a world-class design system- that operates at a global scale- then this role is for you!

Responsibility
Help advance the strategic implementation of Mastercard's Design System using user-centered design methods
Partner with other Design System teams across the organization to drive brand alignment and experience unification across products
Collaborate with designers, engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand the unique requirements, opportunities, and constraints in the realm of data products
Design responsive, accessible components and modular design patterns while maintaining up-to-date documentation
Work within brand guidelines to ensure components are using the consistent brand language
Develop easy to follow design specifications and guidelines for other designers, developers, customers, and development partners/vendors
Create robust processes for contribution, design, audit, handoff, and release to empower our users (other designers, developers, and product managers) to contribute back to the Design System
Be the Design System champion who educates and guides designers, developers, and product teams on adopting the Design System

About You
Passionate about design systems and the value they can deliver on a global scale
Detail-oriented and have a deep understanding of design fundamentals
Values inclusive design and accessibility
Technically-minded, interested in code as the material digital products are made of
Excellent communication and writing skills
Strong experience with Figma, and leading design tools
A portfolio of strong interaction design, design systems, and product design work.
Experience with building Design systems and component libraries is essential.

This role is based in Dublin, and therefore all applications must be eligible to live and work in Dublin.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.