Product Designer (Design Systems) - Remote

Overview

As a Product Designer (Design System), you’ll be joining our dedicated Design System team, responsible for enabling product teams to produce consistent, accessible and delightful user experiences efficiently. To do this, the team aims to take a currently dispersed and immature Design System and grow it to be fully operational.

In Short

• Actively learn from product teams and other relevant stakeholders to understand and prioritise needs, defining future projects.
• Collaborate with design system teammates to evolve assets, such as foundational styles, components, and processes.
• Pair with Content Design on writing thoughtful best practice guidance for components and global interface patterns.
• Leverage your expertise in user-centred design principles, user experience design, and interaction design to provide input to the design system.
• Onboard and educate people who use the design system, helping achieve high-quality outputs across the product.
• Support a community around the design system, sharing regular updates, communicating changes, and asking for feedback.

Requirements

• Have proven work experience contributing to a Design System at scale.
• Proven experience with modular and responsive design methodologies for cross-platform usability.
• Have strong visual and interaction design skills.
• Understand that creating a Design System is not solely about developing a set of design components; it involves cultural and procedural shifts.
• Can contribute to the ongoing strategy for the Design System team.
• Can evangelise for the Design System through frequent and effective idea-sharing, communication, and storytelling.

Benefits

• £60,000 - £75,000 salary + the value of 31,500 share options.
• Access to a flexible benefits provider with a given budget of £600 to spend on perks of your choice.
• We are office first, all accuFolk come to our office in Shoreditch at least 3 days per week, with the option to work remotely 2 days a week.
• Allocated annual learning & development budget.
• Enhanced parental leave policy.
• Prayer, meditation and breastfeeding room.
• Working abroad policy.
• Free healthy breakfasts, snacks and lunches provided.