Job Product Designer

Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

The position

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a Senior Product Designer, joining our Design team.

Design is at the forefront of everything we do. A Senior Product Designer, Design System is in charge of developing the tools, components, documentation, and educational materials that will enable designers and engineers to create world-class experiences. You will work closely with product designers, engineers, and product managers, to evolve and scale our design system.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience working in Product Design and 2+ years of experience working on Design Systems
  • You have a proven ability to produce cutting edge visual design work
  • Strong communication skills that make your process and proposals understandable and actionable to a diverse set of cross-functional audiences
  • Strong visual and interaction design fundamentals
  • You believe in the importance of consistency, and understand the benefits of building things systematically
  • A strong portfolio of product design and design systems work, including designs that showcase both an ability to think in scalable systems, and a solid understanding of key graphic design principles (hierarchy/layout, color, and typography)
  • An understanding and appreciation of the practice of design iteration by always experimenting, evaluating and learning.
  • Proven experience of advocacy for the customer and applying user research insights to your design.
  • Contribution in order to keep work from the team consistent with the whole customer experience and designed with the customers' high-level goals and needs.
  • Collaboration with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements and provide creative, thoughtful solutions.
  • A kind, empathic and patient person.
  • Someone who loves working with people and solving problems with them.
  • One who cares deeply about diversity and inclusion.
  • Fluent written and spoken English.
  • It's not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus.

Key responsibilities

  • Lead Norma Design System from the design side
  • Collaborate closely with engineering to build robust, polished components
  • You’ll be an advocate for the design system throughout the company, representing the team in product discussions and educating others on how to use the system
  • Work with designers to ensure they're leveraging the Design System
  • Empower product designers with tools and superpowers to improve their workflow, through the use of our design system, and by upholding atomic design principles
  • Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, as well as new functions and features.
  • Increase the level of team maturity. Mentor and inspire, give and seek feedback in order to continually raise our bar for quality.
  • Identify what is needed for each design phase.
  • Partner with Product Managers and Engineers to generate ideas and viable solutions.
  • Work directly with the engineering teams to implement new features and iterations and ensure quality standards are met.
  • Have a keen ability to create work under minimal supervision and package and present solutions to the broader creative team. Quickly and superbly.
  • Create Figma flows that range from low-fidelity wireframes to full-fidelity, pixel-ready designs that lead to intuitive user experiences.
  • Contribute to creating and maintaining our design system, participate in team critiques and reviews, assist in user research, organize customer events and design workshops.
  • Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.
  • Drive yourself and your peers to deliver the best quality of work, pixel-perfect in every way while embracing and encouraging new methods and ways of working.
  • Help the organization understand the needs, challenges, and wishes of customers today and in the future.
  • Collaborate on project briefs and scoping.
  • Improve existing design solutions while also continuing to evolve our brand language.
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