Senior Designer, Design Systems

Niche

Senior Designer at Niche evolving design systems for web and mobile, focusing on user experience in educational technology. Working collaboratively with teams to build high-quality experiences.

Posted 4/24/2026full-timeRemote • 🇧🇷 BrazilSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

EC2

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define, evolve, and maintain Niche’s visual language and component library, including typography, color, iconography, and UI patterns
Design and refine reusable components, tokens, and interaction patterns that enable teams to build consistent, high-quality experiences across web and mobile
Introduce atomic design principles to our systems and guidelines
Strong working fluency with modern front-end concepts (primitives, semantic and component level tokens, states, responsive behavior)
Collaborate closely with engineering to ensure components translate cleanly from design to implementation, using your technical understanding to discuss tradeoffs
Improve the contribution model so teams can effectively propose, build, and scale new components from real product use cases
Develop clear documentation, guidelines, and tooling that helps teams adopt and use the design system with confidence
Champion accessibility, usability, and design quality across the system
Align with our brand guidelines to ensure we look and feel like Niche everywhere that users encounter us
Support and guide product teams using the system through reviews, feedback, and collaborative problem solving
Proactively identify opportunities to improve the system and drive improvements with a strong bias for action
Act as an advocate for systems thinking and consistency across the design organization.

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ years of relevant experience, with a track record of helping set design system vision and strategy, driving adoption and measuring success
Strong visual design and product thinking, with sharp attention to detail across component states, interaction patterns, visual consistency, and accessibility compliance (WCAG AA standards)
Strong Figma proficiency, especially with auto layout, nesting, constraints, responsive layouts and components, variants, properties, etc – that being said, we want your help exploring a move toward Storybook + code and reducing our dependency on Figma
Familiar with AI-assisted design workflows and design-to-code automation workflows, including MCP servers and similar tooling. Be ready to set up your own ec2 and get into code with us!
Experience designing for both mobile and web platforms
Experience collaborating with product management and engineering partners
Ability to balance system scalability with real product needs, making thoughtful tradeoffs when required
Strong communication skills and the ability to articulate design decisions
Resilience and flexibility that helps you adapt to a fast-paced work environment, frequent changes, and considerable ambiguity.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Only applications/resumes written in English will be accepted.

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Hard Skills & Tools

visual designcomponent designatomic design principlesresponsive designaccessibility complianceFigmadesign-to-code automationMCP serversEC2UI patterns

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationproblem solvingattention to detailresilienceflexibilityadvocacy for systems thinkingstrategic visionmeasuring successguidance