Lead design system work for a large account, creating and maintaining Figma libraries across native and web, producing component and pattern documentation, designing iOS/Android apps and websites, building prototypes, collaborating with engineering for handoffs and visual QA, and helping product teams adopt design systems while presenting and communicating design decisions.
Kettle is a team of passionate, fearless creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients.
We are looking for a Senior Product Designer with a focus on Design Systems to join our Product team. In this role, you’ll work on one of our largest accounts, contributing to a design system that touches millions of people per year.
Candidates should have:
- Interaction or product design experience, designing iOS and Android native applications and websites
- Experience creating or maintaining enterprise-level design systems
- Maintained Figma libraries across both native and web platforms
- Experience in creating documentation for single components and larger UX patterns
- Worked with engineering teams for hand-offs and visual QA
- Experience helping product organizations adopt new design systems
- A clear communication style, with the ability to present design work internally for feedback
We’d like to know that you can:
- Design creative product experiences from initial concepting through detailed design and collaboration with development
- Solve complex experience challenges while delivering beautiful, usable interfaces
- Bring a high-level of creativity and creative problem solving to each project, and be comfortable with pushing boundaries
- Create both designs and detailed annotations that are informative and understandable for clients, designers and devs
- Create prototypes to explain key interactions and flows
- Work independently on projects with the guidance of your director
- Partner with teammates of different disciplines including Product Management, Production, and Development
- At the Lead level, manage multiple projects within a larger pod, and mentor other designers
- Adapt to different working styles and processes, from quick turn optimization to blue sky visioning
- Embrace challenges, not afraid to get your hands dirty and solution with fellow teammates and clients
The target range of compensation is $110k - $135k. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.
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