Staff Product Designer - Design System

Summary

Join Remote as a Staff Product Designer, Design System and make an impact in the global employment space. As a member of the 40+ multi-disciplinary Product Design team, you will lead a newly-formed squad dedicated to evolving, implementing, and scaling the design system, Norma. You will develop tools, components, documentation, and ways of working to enable designers and engineers to create world-class experiences. Collaborate with product designers, engineers, product managers, and stakeholders worldwide to drive design system adoption. This fully remote position offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• An individual contributor designer who has exemplary experience designing, implementing and evolving a maturing design system - including the tooling, documentation and strategies required to scale effectively
• An impressive portfolio of both product design and design systems work, including evidence that showcases both an ability to think in scalable systems, and a solid understanding of key visual and interaction design fundamentals
• You champion the importance of consistency and the impact of building things systematically, but also understand when/where it is necessary to flex or evolve a design system
• Masterful communication skills that help you build strong narratives around your design work, provide direction and guidance to others, as well as collaborate effectively with peers and stakeholders - with fluent written and spoken English
• You are comfortable in a high-growth, fast-paced environment with a work history that demonstrates your expert ability to autonomously take ownership of design for complex domains and multiple projects with overlapping organisational lines
• Strong evidence that you are an effective cross-functional collaborator with your product and engineering counterparts and are able to work effectively to build consensus and resolve debates and drive the business towards impactful outcomes
• You are a respected voice in an organization whose focus is not only improving the design system and product experience, but influencing quality, culture and ways of working

Responsibilities

• Lead design for Remote’s design system, Norma
• Contribute to nearby product team whose scope overlaps with the design system
• Collaborate closely with engineering to build scalable, polished components and maintain parity between design and coded artefacts
• Lead the maintenance, governance and evolution our design system by embedding yourself throughout the organisation and participating in team critiques and discussions
• Develop the necessary materials and lead internal initiatives that help educate the organisation, drive adoption and improve alignment with the design system
• Create the required strategies and processes to identify opportunities for improvement, governance and scaling our design system effectively with your engineering counterparts
• Improve existing design systems components, while also working with the wider design organisation to evolve our visual design language
• Drive yourself and your peers to deliver the best quality of work, pixel-perfect in every way while embracing and encouraging new methods and ways of working
• Support the organisation on a daily basis through async troubleshooting and collaboration
• Champion our experience principles by ensuring usability, scalability and accessibility in all aspects of our design system

Preferred Qualifications

• Preference will be given to candidates who have experience designing complex B2B SaaS solutions for industries like HRTech, FinTech etc
• Candidates that embody and demonstrate our core values at Remote
• While it is not required to have experience working remotely, it is considered a plus

Benefits

• Work from anywhere
• Flexible paid time off
• Flexible working hours (we are async )
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Mental health support services
• Stock options
• Learning budget
• Home office budget & IT equipment
• Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces