This role builds and evolves the organisation's design system and the AI tools around it, helping designers and engineers build consistent, accessible products faster. It sits across design, engineering and governance, owning components, tokens, documentation and AI tooling adoption.
What you'll do
- Design, build and maintain components, patterns and design tokens, including variants and theming
- Build accessibility into every component to meet WCAG AA standards
- Work with front-end engineers to keep design and code aligned using Code Connect and Storybook
- Build AI tools such as Figma plugins, custom agents, skills and prompt templates
- Structure the design system so AI tools can read and apply it
- Write scripts to automate design system tasks such as audits and token sync
- Test new AI tools and share findings with the design team
- Support product designers and engineers through reviews and guidance
- Audit products for one-off patterns and drift
- Run a contribution model so teams can propose and add components
- Track adoption and report where the system helps or falls short
What we're looking for
- 5+ years in product design, UI design, design engineering or related discipline
- 2+ years working on a design system
- Portfolio showing design system work and its effect on teams
- Strong grasp of component architecture, design tokens, variants and theming in Figma
- Working knowledge of accessibility standards including WCAG AA
- Experience building AI tools for design work
- Experience making design system content usable by AI tools
- Ability to write scripts with Figma API, JavaScript or similar
- Comfortable working in GitHub with engineers
- Clear writing for documentation and guidelines
Nice to have
- Contributed component code through pull requests
- Worked with token pipelines, Code Connect or Storybook
- Supported several products on one design system
- Helped a design team adopt AI tools
- Curious, practical and generous with knowledge
