Product Designer, Design Systems

We’re looking for an organised, detail oriented, and humble Product Designer to help scale and maintain our Design System, Alley-oop. You will be playing a critical role in enabling our feature designers and developers to scale their products more reliably and efficiently. Work closely with other product designers, product managers, engineers, and various stakeholders, to contribute to Alley-oop, our Design System. Create and maintain foundational patterns, UI components, and documentation, while following accessibility standards. Support product designers to speed up their workflows by creating reusable and adaptable interactive components that leverage variants, design tokens, and component properties. Anticipate how the components and styles in the system will affect those using them and optimise Figma libraries accordingly. Advocate for Alley-oop across the organisation and support cross-functional teams with its adoption. Effectively communicate and articulate your thoughts on your designs and processes in order to justify your design decisions. Being open and receptive to feedback, exploring iterations, and providing objective feedback for other product designers. Always think about driving the system forward by helping to shape the roadmap and governance model in order to improve team and organisational processes. Other duties as required.

• Work closely with other product designers, product managers, engineers, and various stakeholders, to contribute to Alley-oop, our Design System.
• Create and maintain foundational patterns, UI components, and documentation, while following accessibility standards.
• Support product designers to speed up their workflows by creating reusable and adaptable interactive components that leverage variants, design tokens, and component properties.
• Anticipate how the components and styles in the system will affect those using them and optimise Figma libraries accordingly.
• Advocate for Alley-oop across the organisation and support cross-functional teams with its adoption.
• Effectively communicate and articulate your thoughts on your designs and processes in order to justify your design decisions.
• Being open and receptive to feedback, exploring iterations, and providing objective feedback for other product designers.
• Always think about driving the system forward by helping to shape the roadmap and governance model in order to improve team and organisational processes.
• Other duties as required.

• A strong portfolio showcasing your process and experience with shaping Design Systems and full end-to-end experiences, using design thinking and user research to drive decisions (required).
• You seek to develop your design leadership skills through mentorship and the way you elevate the quality of design - from actively seeking and providing feedback, communicating designs, and setting the standard for execution (required).
• Experience working closely with cross-functional teams in order to discover user problems and frame them to work on the right impactful solutions (required).
• Comfortable working autonomously and proactively, while also knowing when to bring others in to move things forward quickly (required).
• You're comfortable running internal or external workshops or presentations that cover complex concepts to technical and non-technical groups (required).
• Experience designing for web and native platforms (required).
• WCAG compliant and accessible design (required).
• 3+ years of experience designing digital products and experiences, including native apps for both iOS and Android (required).

• Competitive compensation package
• Fun, relaxed work environment
• Education and conference reimbursements.
• Parental leave top up
• Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others