Middle Product Designer – Design Systems

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Europe.

📋 Description

• Take ownership and enhance the primary design system that supports web and mobile application platforms.

• Create and sustain Figma components, widgets, and primitives utilizing advanced variants, properties, auto layout, and constraints.

• Manage variable and token architecture across primitive, semantic, and component layers, including multi-brand theme modes.

• Conduct audits of the design library, oversee versioning, plan for deprecations, and work to minimize design debt.

• Collaborate with front-end developers to review implementations and ensure alignment between code and Figma designs.

• Align component properties, states, and naming conventions across Figma libraries and front-end code, including Storybook.

• Define and document design patterns, usage guidelines, and rules for responsive behavior.

• Provide support to designers through onboarding, usage reviews, and component gap analyses.

• Establish procedures for system requests, pattern proposals, and resolving library-related friction.

• Communicate system decisions effectively and align internal stakeholders around established standards.

• Design comprehensive features, flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes.

• Validate design hypotheses in collaboration with UX Researchers and Product Managers through usability testing, interviews, and user feedback.

• Uphold WCAG AA accessibility principles across all digital platforms.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proficiency in Ukrainian/Russian is mandatory.

• Over 3 years of experience as a Product Designer, including a minimum of 1 year focused on building and managing a production design system utilized by other teams.

• Expert-level proficiency in Figma, encompassing advanced component architecture, sets, variable layers, design tokens, and multi-brand theming.

• Strong technical literacy with the ability to interpret HTML/CSS/JSX or Storybook pages.

• Capable of engaging in constructive technical discussions with front-end developers.

• Practical knowledge of responsive design principles across various breakpoints and platform constraints.

• Familiarity with WCAG AA accessibility standards, including focus states, contrast ratios, and keyboard navigation.

• Proven track record in conducting usability research, iterating on prototypes, and deriving requirements from team briefs.

• Exceptional communication skills for articulating system decisions, facilitating alignment between teams, and diplomatically managing feature requests.

• Experience working in or alongside a dedicated Design Ops function is a plus.

• Knowledge of visual design principles and brand consistency is a plus.

• Experience in establishing deprecation strategies and managing extensive UI kit migrations is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Benefits Cafeteria — an annual budget that you can allocate towards: Sports, Medical, Mental health, Home office, Languages.

• Paid maternity/paternity leave along with a monthly childcare allowance.

• More than 20 vacation days.

• Unlimited sick leave policy.

• Emergency time off available.

• Remote-first work environment.

• Technical support offered.

• Compensation for coworking spaces.

• Team events, both online and offline, including offsite gatherings.

• A learning culture that promotes internal courses and growth programs.