Product Production Designer

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Requirements:

• Proficiency in Design Systems
• Strong understanding of component libraries
• Familiarity with front-end development basics
• Experience maintaining and documenting product specifications in GitHub (or similar tools).

Responsibilities:

• Own the Waking Up Design System
• Manage, update, and optimize our Figma design libraries to reflect current and future product needs.
• Collaborate with designers to develop new components as required, and to make sure components are being used as intended.
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure design assets and components translate smoothly into development.
• Maintain consistency between the design system and client applications, identifying and resolving discrepancies.
• Serve as the primary design representative for passing specifications, measurements, and logic to developers.
• Provide answers to technical and design-related questions during implementation and QA cycles.
• Act as a bridge between design and engineering, ensuring that our vision aligns with what gets built.
• Maintain and update our product specifications in GitHub using simple markdown and screenshots.
• Ensure that these documents are always accurate and serve as a “source of truth” for current and completed features.
• Support the lead designer in creating detailed user flows and logic for new features.
• Draft annotations describing user flows in Figma to help clarify the intended user experience for each feature, ensuring alignment within the team.
• Join QA sprints as a representative of the product team to validate UI/UX implementations.
• Ensure that design intentions are fully realized and provide feedback to developers as needed.