This role sits in the Design Systems team, shaping and evolving Origami, the company's design system. It works across web and mobile with designers, engineers and product managers to build shared foundations, components and guidance for product teams.
What you'll do
- Shape and evolve Origami's shared foundations, components and design guidance
- Contribute to the design system's forward plan and improvement opportunities
- Collaborate with designers, engineers and product managers on product needs and solutions
- Lead design work from problem definition through prototyping, validation and implementation
- Apply visual and interaction design craft across web and mobile
- Work with engineers to evaluate technical feasibility and ensure reliable implementations
- Create documentation, guidance and examples for understanding and adopting Origami
- Support colleagues in using the design system and share expertise
- Explore AI-assisted approaches to developing components, foundations and documentation, including generating code for review
- Experiment with ways AI tools can use Origami's principles and components for prototyping
- Test AI-enabled workflows with designers and engineers against real product needs
- Use feedback and evidence to evaluate improvements in adoption and design quality
What we're looking for
- Significant product design experience with visual design, interaction design and prototyping skills
- Experience creating, maintaining or evolving design systems or reusable components
- Portfolio demonstrating high-quality product design and design systems work
- Advanced experience using Figma, including component libraries, variables and design tokens
- Experience building interactive prototypes using code with working knowledge of HTML and CSS
- Strong technical understanding and confidence collaborating with engineers
- Experience designing for web and mobile with understanding of platform conventions
- Knowledge of accessibility principles applied to components and digital experiences
- Experience using or exploring AI-assisted design and development tools
- Experience leading cross-functional design work and navigating ambiguity
- Strong communication and documentation skills
- Collaborative, systems-oriented approach to shared design practices
Nice to have
- Experience supporting design system adoption across multiple product teams
- Experience exploring how AI tools can use design system guidance, components or code
- Experience evaluating design system effectiveness through feedback or usage evidence
Good to know
- Based at Bracken House in London
- Hybrid model requiring onsite work 50% of the time
