Senior UX/UI Design System Expert

Location : REMOTE

Position Description:

Senior UX/UI Design System Expert

What you’ll definitely need:

• 8+ years of experience as a professional UX/UI Designer with significant experience managing design systems for Saas or enterprise applications
• Solid experience building and maintaining unified, scalable design systems for native mobile apps, web platforms, and responsive interfaces, leveraging auto layout for consistency and efficiency.
• Bachelor's degree in visual design, Digital Media or related field.
• Capable of building designs and style standards in all projects within platform and technology constraints
• Familiarity with Agile Methodology
• Ability to work hands-on and contribute creative, future-facing UI/UX designs with seamless user flows, interactivity, and animations.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles (typography, layout, grid systems, hierarchy, color, composition), prototyping, wireframes, and ADA guidelines
• Experience designing desktops, mobile, and other screens and best practices
• Desire to work hands-on for an innovative project from start to finish, and possess the ability to think creatively and contribute fresh ideas and progressive insights
• Experience managing contributions from designers and engineers, ensuring alignment with roadmaps and deadlines.
• Passion for staying updated on design system trends and enterprise challenges while researching and implementing best practices to identify opportunities for optimization and innovation that support evolving user and business needs.
• Work independently and collaboratively in team environments, ensuring timely and accurate communication, documentation, and progress updates.
• Proactively taking initiative to identify and resolve blockers, driving tasks forward without waiting for direction.
• Design System Ownership: Build, maintain, and continuously optimize the design system to meet the needs of enterprise-grade applications and software. Ensure consistency, scalability, and usability across all components and patterns.
• Figma Expertise: Serve as the team’s Figma expert, developing and managing UI tokens, components, variables, advanced prototyping and libraries while leveraging plugins for seamless integration with development workflows and development tools like Storybook, Zeplin, or GitHub for design-to-code workflows.
• Leading and mentoring teams to integrate motion design, micro-interactions, and generative design concepts into the design system.
• Documentation: Design, write, and maintain comprehensive and accessible design system documentation, ensuring clarity and usability for both designers and developers.
• Governance & Collaboration: Lead design system governance in partnership with cross-functional teams form data and development and related experts. Ensure alignment with organizational priorities, user needs, and technical feasibility.
• Auditing and optimizing design libraries to future-proof the system for enterprise scalability.
• Knowledge of advanced CSS frameworks or tokens (e.g., Tailwind, Bootstrap) to bridge design and development.
• Analytical skills to evaluate design system ROI and optimize for scalability and business goals.

What we’d love you to have:

• Customer-facing UX design experience and a portfolio to showcase modern design and UIs with interactivity and motion
• Experience working on global teams or within large organizations.
• Knowledge of accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG) and how they apply to design systems.
• Background in branding or visual identity systems.
• Familiarity with HTML5/CSS3 and project management tools is a plus