Remote Staff Product Designer, Design Systems

Summary

Join Gusto as a Senior Design System's designer with direct experience working on PRODUCT focused Design Systems to create and maintain a rich set of Figma and React components for product teams across platform and applications.

Requirements

• Design Systems Experience: Have 3+ years of experience working on a design systems team supporting product design teams through the full life cycle of design system creation, implementation, and maintenance
• Product Design Experience : 5+ years experience working on a product design team
• Technical Acumen: The ability to pair effectively with our engineering team designing component APIs
• Accessibility Minded: A deep understanding of Accessibility guidelines and the ability to implement WCAG AA compliant components and styles
• Technical Skill: Expert knowledge of Figma, including creating complex components with variants, properties, and interaction demos
• Design integrity: High degree of design craft and polish
• Communication: Documentation expertise and the ability to educate peers on all things design system. Demonstrated ability to effectively storytell in a variety of methods (visual, spoken language, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain semantic and functional tokens for the design system
• Create simple and complex components, patterns, and templates in Figma
• Host and advise in our Design System’s slack channels and office hours
• Work with our engineering team to make sure our components are represented one to one in Figma and in React
• Document and publish design decisions and guidance

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k)s
• Expert HR
• Team management tools