Senior Product Designer

Job Title: Sr Product Designer, Design Systems

Location: Glendale, CA / Orlando, FL / Seattle, WA – remote but could switch to hybrid

The Company

Headquartered in Los Angeles, this leader in the Entertainment & Media space is focused on delivering world-class stories and experiences to its global audience. To offer the best entertainment experiences, their technology teams focus on continued innovation and utilization of cutting edge technology.

Platform / Stack

You will work with technologies that include Figma, UX, and Design Systems.

Compensation Expectation: $45 – 60/hr

What You'll Do As a Sr Product Engineer:

• Work closely with product designers, engineers, content designers, and accessibility specialists to enhance and expand the group’s design systems.
• Solve complex design problems in simple and intuitive ways that scale across multiple products and platforms.
• Own design explorations on assigned tasks, identifying problems, ideating, testing, and integrating solutions that improve the broader user experience.
• Contribute to design systems improvement and growth, flexing to work independently, and/or partnering with other designers and teams.
• Build strong relationships with team members, leaders, and cross functional partners to drive collaboration and innovation on projects.
• Contribute to scaling design systems across web, mobile web, and native apps (iOS and Android), and emerging tech platforms. May perform user design research.
• Stay updated with industry trends, emerging technologies, and design system best practices and encourage innovation to improve design efficiency and the user experience.
• Advocate for design systems best practices, including accessibility, scalability, and performance.

Qualifications:

You could be a great fit if you have:

• Minimum 5 years of related work experience.
• Comfortable working in an agile environment with shifting priorities and ambiguity.
• Experience as a multidisciplinary product designer with in-depth knowledge of UX best practices.
• Strong communication skills: ability to articulate questions, strategy, design decisions, and updates to leaders and project team members as needed; strong understanding of how communication impacts the work and business.
• Proficient in Figma: Using, building, or maintaining design systems libraries including UI foundations, components, variants, component properties, and patterns.
• Experience and understanding of developing products that prioritize accessibility.
• Ability to build interactive Figma prototypes.
• Familiar with design systems documentation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building design systems.
• Solid understanding of front-end development technologies to effectively collaborate with engineering teams.
• Understanding of animation/motion best practices and technologies.
• Advanced skills in Figma, including tokens, variables, plugins, and prototyping.
• Experience with design systems governance processes that manage design system updates, enhancements, and version control.

This client requires that a background check be completed. A background check is required to protect our company/client and its stakeholders by ensuring that we hire individuals with a trustworthy history, which helps maintain a safe and secure workplace. This proactive measure minimizes potential risks and promotes a culture of integrity within the organization.

Benefits Offered:

Employer provides access to:

• 3 levels of medical insurance for you and your family
• Dental insurance for you and your family
• 401k
• Overtime
• California has the following sick leave policy: accrue 1 hour for every 30 hours worked up to 48 hours. If you are based in a different state, please inquire about that state’s sick leave policy.