The designer builds and maintains the visual foundation of a multi-brand digital ecosystem, working closely with fellow design system designers, product designers, and developers. This includes shared components, design tokens, patterns, and guidelines, plus driving adoption and exploring AI and automation opportunities.
What you'll do
- Build, maintain, and evolve the design system component library
- Design and manage design system foundations: tokens, colour, typography, spacing, elevation, motion, layout
- Support a scalable multi-brand design system strategy through shared foundations and theming
- Collaborate with software engineers to ensure accurate implementation of components and tokens
- Plan and support design system releases, versioning, and rollout across products
- Create and maintain documentation, component specifications, and usage guidelines
- Monitor design system adoption, gather feedback, and improve components and workflows
- Support governance processes for design system changes and enhancements
- Explore AI-powered tools and automation opportunities to improve design system workflows
What we're looking for
- Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction, digital media, or related field, or equivalent experience
- Several years of experience in UI design, product design, or design systems
- Proven experience building and maintaining design system components, patterns, and visual foundations
- Strong Figma expertise: components, variants, variables, libraries, design tokens
- Experience working with scalable design systems across multiple products
- Strong understanding of accessibility standards, responsive design, user-centred design
- Experience collaborating with software engineers and preparing implementation-ready specifications
- Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Interest in AI-powered design tools and workflow automation
Nice to have
- Experience with multi-brand or white-label design systems
- Experience with design system governance, adoption strategies, and release management
- Understanding of HTML, CSS, and modern front-end frameworks
- Experience creating or using design automation tools, plugins, or AI-assisted workflows
- Experience supporting enterprise-scale products and cross-functional product teams
