Product Designer, Design Systems

Summary

Join Paddle's design team as a Design Systems Designer contractor and help build a robust design system for our SaaS payment infrastructure. You will play a critical role in shaping and evolving our design system, collaborating with designers, developers, and product managers. Your responsibilities include designing core components, collaborating cross-functionally, creating documentation, iteratively improving the system, ensuring accessibility, and building for scalability. This role requires proven UX/UI design experience with a focus on design systems, advanced Figma skills, and strong communication abilities. We offer a full suite of benefits, including attractive salaries, stock options, retirement plans, private healthcare, well-being initiatives, unlimited holidays, enhanced parental leave, and a learning fund.

Requirements

• Experience: Proven experience in UX/UI design, with a focus on design systems or component libraries
• Technical Proficiency: Advanced Figma skills, with familiarity in front-end technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Attention to Detail: A keen eye for clean, reusable, and scalable design
• Communication: Strong ability to articulate design decisions and collaborate with technical and non-technical teams alike
• Problem-Solving: Confidence in addressing challenges in implementing design systems at scale
• Adaptability: Comfortable navigating ambiguity and adapting to evolving priorities

Responsibilities

• Design System Development: Define, design, and test core components, patterns, and guidelines to establish a scalable and cohesive product design framework
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with designers, developers, and product managers to align on functionality, accessibility, and implementation
• Documentation: Create clear, concise documentation to guide design system adoption and usage
• Iterative Improvement: Gather feedback from stakeholders to refine and expand the design system as needed
• Accessibility: Ensure components meet accessibility standards, such as WCAG 2.1, incorporating tools like ARIA roles or Axe
• Scalability: Build for flexibility to support the evolving needs of our product suite

Preferred Qualifications

• Tools Knowledge: Experience with design tokens and tools like Storybook
• Technical Proficiency: React knowledge

Benefits

• Attractive salaries
• Stock options
• Retirement plans
• Private healthcare
• Well-being initiatives
• Remote work
• Unlimited holidays
• Enhanced parental leave
• Annual learning fund
• Regular internal and external training