Staff Product Designer - Design System

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Requirements:

• An individual contributor designer who has exemplary experience designing, implementing and evolving a maturing design system - including the tooling, documentation and strategies required to scale effectively.
• An impressive portfolio of both product design and design systems work, including evidence that showcases both an ability to think in scalable systems, and a solid understanding of key visual and interaction design fundamentals.
• You champion the importance of consistency and the impact of building things systematically, but also understand when/where it is necessary to flex or evolve a design system.
• Masterful communication skills that help you build strong narratives around your design work, provide direction and guidance to others, as well as collaborate effectively with peers and stakeholders - with fluent written and spoken English.
• You are comfortable in a high-growth, fast-paced environment with a work history that demonstrates your expert ability to autonomously take ownership of design for complex domains and multiple projects with overlapping organisational lines.
• Strong evidence that you are an effective cross-functional collaborator with your product and engineering counterparts and are able to work effectively to build consensus and resolve debates and drive the business towards impactful outcomes.
• You are a respected voice in an organization whose focus is not only improving the design system and product experience, but influencing quality, culture and ways of working.
• Preference will be given to candidates who have experience designing complex B2B SaaS solutions for industries like HRTech, FinTech etc.
• Candidates that embody and demonstrate our core values at Remote.

Responsibilities:

• Lead design for Remote’s design system, Norma.
• Contribute to nearby product team whose scope overlaps with the design system.
• Collaborate closely with engineering to build scalable, polished components and maintain parity between design and coded artefacts.
• Lead the maintenance, governance and evolution our design system by embedding yourself throughout the organisation and participating in team critiques and discussions.
• Develop the necessary materials and lead internal initiatives that help educate the organisation, drive adoption and improve alignment with the design system.
• Create the required strategies and processes to identify opportunities for improvement, governance and scaling our design system effectively with your engineering counterparts.
• Improve existing design systems components, while also working with the wider design organisation to evolve our visual design language.
• Drive yourself and your peers to deliver the best quality of work, pixel-perfect in every way while embracing and encouraging new methods and ways of working.
• Support the organisation on a daily basis through async troubleshooting and collaboration.
• Champion our experience principles by ensuring usability, scalability and accessibility in all aspects of our design system.