Product Designer
Interact Software
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Manchester • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Take ownership of design system that spans multiple platforms, technologies, and mediums. This includes web (React components), legacy web applications, native mobile apps, Figma libraries, and AI‑assisted product experiences.
- Responsible for evolving the design system as the product grows, ensuring it remains scalable, coherent, and usable across an increasingly complex product landscape.
- Develop and maintain a pattern‑led system that brings consistency to behaviour, layout, language, and interaction.
- Drive standardisation across a large and growing product, while applying sound judgement and pragmatism where full parity across platforms isn’t immediately possible.
- Define and document clear guidance around usage rules, component states and variations, edge cases, accessibility, responsive behaviour, and internationalisation, including RTL support.
- Own UI copy standards, voice and tone guidance, and terminology, ensuring language is clear, inclusive, accessible, and consistent across features, platforms, and technologies.
- Make decisions about when to reuse existing patterns, when to extend them, and when new patterns are needed, balancing speed, quality, and long‑term maintainability.
- Working closely with front‑end engineering teams, you’ll ensure designs translate cleanly into production code, with scalable, reusable components and consistently implemented behaviour, layout, and language.
- Support the integration of standalone platforms introduced through company acquisitions, progressively aligning UI patterns, behaviour, and language with the core design system.
- Work closely with other Product Designers, content contributors, and front‑end teams to deliver cohesive, high‑quality product experiences that evolve over time.
Requirements
- Strong UI design skills with clear systems thinking
- Experience contributing to or owning parts of a design system, including scalable component design
- Confidence documenting design decisions, patterns, and language usage
- Strong understanding of UI copy, microcopy, and tone of voice
- Experience designing for:
- Responsive layouts
- Scalable, reusable components
- Internationalisation and RTL considerations
- Comfort working closely with front‑end engineers
- Solid understanding of how technology choices and constraints influence design decisions, particularly across legacy systems and modern front‑end frameworks
- Proven ability to work effectively in a context‑switching environment while maintaining quality and momentum
- Experience delivering at pace, with a clear bias toward execution and delivery
- Ability to work on greenfield projects as well as navigate and improve complex, evolving product areas
- A pragmatic, collaborative approach, focused on outcomes over perfection
- Strong problem‑solving skills with a high degree of ownership and agency
- High bandwidth — engaged, sharp, and quick to grasp context
- Curiosity about AI, with evidence of using AI productively in design workflows or problem‑solving
- Enthusiasm for tackling new challenges and continuously improving how work gets done
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave (with the option to buy and sell additional days)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to Learning & Development platform
- Life Insurance
- Auto Enrolment Pensions
- Healthshield (Cashback on dental check-ups and fillings, eye tests, physiotherapy, prescriptions and much more
- Reimburse for usage of personal mobile phone
- Free Gym membership and Free Friday lunch for office based staff
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
UI designdesign systemscalable component designresponsive layoutsinternationalisationRTL supportUI copymicrocopypattern-led systemfront-end frameworks
Soft Skills
systems thinkingdocumentation skillscollaborationproblem-solvingownershippragmatismcuriosityadaptabilityexecution focuscontext-switching