Senior System Designer
Lightspeed (Formerly SEOshop)
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Tbilisi • 🇬🇪 Georgia
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Senior
About the role
- Lead system-wide design initiatives with autonomy and authority, facilitating workshops and cross-functional discussions to deliver scalable and cohesive solutions
- Leverage design systems, architecture, and cross-platform scalability expertise to create reusable, adaptable components and guidelines
- Turn abstract system challenges into clear, scalable frameworks and processes that drive product consistency and efficiency
- Design holistic system solutions and component frameworks that integrate seamlessly across platforms, ensuring adaptability and scalability
- Own the design system’s evolution, ensuring it remains consistent, scalable, and aligned with industry best practices
- Use research and data to identify opportunities for system improvements and create tangible, impactful solutions that enhance scalability and usability
- Build relationships across disciplines and advocate for system-level consistency while balancing user needs and business goals
- Oversee the design system’s adoption, ensuring consistency from conception through implementation and iteration
- Be a positive role model and advocate for systems thinking, fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence across the Lightspeed organization
Requirements
- At least 5 years of practical, in-house experience in system design, design systems, or cross-platform UX/UI scalability
- Applied experience with system design principles and the ability to evolve frameworks and processes to address scaling challenges
- Applied experience designing and managing scalable systems across responsive web, native applications, and emerging technologies
- Strong systems thinking and conceptual skills to elevate scalability and adaptability of design systems
- Excellent communication and visualization skills
- Expertise in design systems, component architecture, and scaling best practices across platforms and teams
- A passion for advocating systems thinking and empowering designers, product managers, and engineers with scalable design solutions
- An acute level of self-awareness and deep empathy—for both the end user’s needs and the teams utilizing the design system
- A deep curiosity and focus on systemic strategy and vision
- Fluency with system design tools and platforms such as Figma, component libraries, documentation tools, and collaboration platforms
- Strong portfolio or documentation showcasing ability to design and scale systems
Benefits
- Flexible hours and hybrid work
- People Experience — Our PX benefit allows you to work from pretty much anywhere in the world for 60 days a year
- Lightspeed equity scheme (we are all owners)
- Health & Wellness Credit — expense up to 1300 GEL per year towards your gym membership, yoga classes, a new bike or whatever else you do for your health
- Mental Health Support through the Modern Health App — meditation, coaching or counseling
- Support to talk with external Russian speaking psychologists (up to 7 sessions/year)
- A medical insurance plan that covers dental care
- Regular performance reviews and opportunities to make growth
- Apple MacBooks for work
- Free access to LinkedIn Learning
- 50% coverage of SkyEng English classes
- Time off to volunteer and give back to your community
- Awesome office space located in Saburtalo (Tbilisi)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
system designdesign systemscross-platform UX/UI scalabilityscalable systemscomponent architecturescaling best practicesframeworksprocessesresponsive web designnative applications
Soft skills
systems thinkingcommunication skillsvisualization skillsself-awarenessempathycollaborationadvocacycuriositystrategic thinkingleadership