Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

Job summary
As the Smartly Design System designer, you will be in charge of creating coherent experiences across the Smartly.io platform. You will have close-knit collaboration with designers and developers across many teams in Smartly, both in building a design system and maintaining it. You will deliver components and critical design system infrastructure underpinning the product and broader Smartly Design System.
Job seniority: mid-to-senior level
Responsibilities
• Produce highly detailed design specifications to help everyone understand how a component should be built and function. Including accessibility, interaction, visual guidelines • Transform vision into a product strategy and execution roadmap • Set key performance metrics and OKRs to define success for the platform, including adoption rate as the primary metric • Influence changes and improvements to the broader Smartly Design System and articulate the rationale clearly through user and product insights, reuse or extension of existing patterns or frameworks where possible, as well as finding opportunities to align closely with product teams • Work closely and constructively with product management, designers, engineers, and our user researcher to create and deliver world class components, patterns, and design documentation • Advocate for your design solutions by putting them in context of business and user goals • Deliver world-class interaction and visual designs from initial concept through to ship • Identify and mitigate risks, track progress, resolve conflicts, ensure quality and report on design system status • Solve complex design problems in simple and intuitive ways, that blend brand personality, visual, motion and sound to create delightful experiences • Plan, clean, and re-structure Figma libraries so that they’re complete and easy to use for designers
Requirements
• 5+ years' experience working in product or service design • Having worked in at least 1 design system team in the recent past • Product and interaction design experience • Diverse portfolio demonstrating your experience creating user-centered design solutions • Experience working with users, running studies, or collaborating with researchers • Proficiency in Figma • History of collaborating with engineers to implement and test solutions • You’re excellent at communicating and collaborating with other people and you have a passion for sharing best practices and the latest trends with the rest of the team • Experience designing cross-platform experiences
Key Skills Needed
• Produce highly detailed design specifications • Transform vision into a product strategy • Set key performance metrics and OKRs • Influence changes and improvements to the design system • Work closely and constructively with product management, designers, engineers, and user researcher • Advocate for design solutions • Deliver world-class interaction and visual designs • Identify and mitigate risks, track progress, resolve conflicts, ensure quality • Solve complex design problems • Plan, clean, and re-structure Figma libraries
Benefits
• Possibility to lead and take ownership of developing our design system. • A chance to hit the ground running. There’s a wide variety of different challenges to be solved by the Design Team: from developing brand-spanking new features from scratch to harmonizing our UX patterns across the product. • Your role will be central to establishing and maintaining a comprehensive design system that drives excellence across our products. Your contributions will directly influence the way our users interact with our platform, making a lasting impact on their experiences. • We're committed to your growth and development. As a Senior Product Designer focusing on design systems, you'll have the opportunity to elevate your skills and expertise by engaging in challenging projects, and learning from your peers.