This role sits in Global Engineering, Commerce & Customer Care, embedded in the team building KAE (Kaluza Agent Experience) and the enterprise design system Nebula. You act as the design system technical expert, bridging design and engineering by turning design intent into accessible, production-quality React components.
What you'll do
- Work in a product development team to understand needs and steer design system development
- Work closely with designers as equal partners, with product and engineering, to shape the Agent Experience product and design system
- Design, build and ship React components and patterns conforming to WCAG 2.2 AA
- Review code from colleagues, setting the quality bar for design fidelity and accessibility
- Make the design-to-code workflow work in practice, including tokens, handoff and documentation
- Run the contribution process for teams beyond your own, leading changes across several apps
- Create and deliver technical strategy in partnership with the engineering manager
- Promote engineering, design and delivery best practices, coaching engineers and designers
- Shape how AI-assisted development is used in design system work
- Champion progressive architecture and review design solutions with other engineering leaders
- Represent the design system to engineering and wider stakeholders, helping set its direction
- Work within a team of senior leaders evolving the architecture of the enterprise design system
What we're looking for
- Deep experience building frontend components with React and TypeScript
- Deep experience designing, building and running design systems, including tokens, component APIs, documentation and versioning
- Knowledge of implementing and maintaining WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility
- Good design and UX judgement, starting from the user
- Experience running changes across multiple apps
- Strong communication skills across engineering, design, product and the wider business
- Bias to action and a can-do approach to problem solving
- Experience mentoring, training and developing other engineers
- Ability to deliver against a technical strategy iteratively through ambiguity
- Experience building and nurturing highly collaborative and engaged teams
- Comfort with AI-enabled development
- Ability to collaborate with people managers, product managers and agile practitioners
Good to know
- Location: London, UK - hybrid
- Requires existing right to work in the UK
- No visa sponsorship offered for this role
