UI Designer (Design Systems)

What You Will Be Doing

• Establishing and maintaining Sigma’s design system as the single source-of-truth, freeing up designers and engineers to spend more time doing higher quality design work with fewer resources
• Collaborate closely with design partners to define, maintain and improve components in Figma and with engineers to integrate robust and reusable components into component libraries like Storybook.
• Document design principles, accessibility guidelines, UI states, and interactions.
• Establishing and socializing specifications and standards; training designers and engineers on how to use the system in their work
• Auditing new designs and existing pieces of the product to ensure interaction and component consistency 

Required Qualifications

• Strong visual design fundamentals with enterprise software experience
• 5+ years of UI design experience at scaling startups 
• Must have built a design system from scratch and have worked in design systems
• Expert level skills in Figma
• Capable of working autonomously and delivering high quality from the jump
• Capable of rapid iteration and experimentation
• Working knowledge of basic front-end languages, including CSS, HTML and javaScript
• Exceptional communication skills, and the ability to clearly explain design decisions to anyone in the company
• Comfortable with critique and co-authorship

Portfolio Requirements

• Examples of your design systems work, including usage documentation (an entire library to review would be tops) and engineering deliverables.
• Case study on how and why you came up with the design systems and components you created
• A showcase of designs that have been shipped to production using the system you established