System Designer
Job Description
REQUIREMENTS
- 8-10+ years of experience in Product/UX Design, with significant time spent on design systems specifically.
- Proven experience setting up or managing a large design system — required.
- Fluent in Figma variables, component properties, variants, and slot/nested component structures — required.
- Strong understanding of token architecture (primitive, semantic, alias) and atomic design principles.
- Native mobile app (iOS/Android) design experience, with understanding of platform-specific constraints.
- Previous banking, fintech, or other regulated/enterprise experience preferred.
- Strong documentation and systems-thinking skills.
- Track record of driving design system adoption and governance across multiple teams.
- Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA) as applied at the component level.
- Basic front-end literacy (HTML/CSS fundamentals, or understanding of how design tokens map to code) to communicate effectively with engineers.
- Familiarity with versioning/release practices for design systems (changelogs, deprecation strategy).
RESPONSIBILITES
- air with the design system lead to own and evolve the design system’s foundations — color, typography, spacing, and elevation — and its component library.
- Build and maintain design tokens/variables (primitive, semantic, and component-level) including multi-mode theming (e.g. light/dark).
- Design and document components with full variant and state coverage (default, hover, focus, disabled, error) using slot-based, nested structures.
- Partner with engineering to ensure design-to-code parity, including token pipelines and component mapping.
- Establish and maintain governance: contribution guidelines, versioning, and naming conventions.
- Audit product surfaces for consistency and drive design system adoption across product teams.
- Account for native iOS and Android platform-specific requirements within the system architecture.
- Support and train other designers on effective system usage.
- Embed accessibility standards at the component level so compliant usage is the default.
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