Senior Product Designer – Design Systems
Anthology Inc
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Senior
About the role
- Defining, evolving, expanding and driving adoption of our design system and design language including typography, colour, iconography, components and patterns
- Driving a governance framework to ensure the design system is used correctly
- Leading design projects, combining quant/qual research insights, rapid iteration, and testing to craft data informed, user centered solutions
- Taking broad, conceptual ideas and turning them into something useful, useable and valuable across mobile and web
- Prototyping, testing, and iterating. Jumping between ‘discovery’ mode (trying wild ideas and prototyping in whatever you are comfortable with) and ‘delivery’ mode (nailing the flow, interactions, motion and accessibility)
- Advocating for the user, valuing continuous discovery, and engaging with customers through research sessions, site visits, usability testing, focus groups and user conferences to inspire ideas and inform design decisions
- Addressing short-term design needs, and delivering value to users incrementally, while making strides towards the long-term vision
- Working collaboratively within product teams as a peer with product managers, developers and data scientists to bring your ideas to life, and contribute to the strategic product vision
- Being autonomous. Taking full ownership of your work and responsibility for every detail, every step of the way, from whiteboard sketching to what is finally shipped
- Taking an active role in our design community, sharing ideas, upskilling in how to best use AI and contributing to our lunch and learns
Requirements
- Relevant degree or equivalent experience
- At least 5 years as a product designer on both mobile and web products
- Excellent visual design skills as well as a solid UX design foundation
- Excel at designing simple, inclusive, elegant products, which consider all screen sizes from mobile, through to desktop
- Experience creating Design Systems or playing a significant contribution role
- Strong portfolio showcasing solid user centered design practice and design execution (a portfolio link is required in your application)
- Experience running research such as usability testing
- Team player and exceptional communicator who simplifies complexity, tells compelling stories, and is comfortable running customer and senior level calls
- Knowledge of inclusive design and accessibility
- Fluency in written and spoken English.
Benefits
- Portfolio can be a link to website or a Google Drive folder (or equivalent)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
design systemUX designvisual designprototypingusability testinginclusive designaccessibilitymobile designweb designuser centered design
Soft skills
team playerexceptional communicatorstorytellingautonomycollaborationcustomer engagementresearch facilitationcomplexity simplificationownershipcontinuous discovery
Certifications
relevant degree