Senior UI Designer

Senior UI Designer Design System:
Were looking for a passionate; skilled; and ambitious Senior UI Designer to join our Design System team.
As a Senior UI Designer at the UKs largest supermarket; youll be working on a complex; sophisticated design system that supports and works hand in hand with our product design teams. Youll discover new opportunities; creating intuitive and effective solutions that improve every stage of our users design workflow from Figma to engineering handover. Youll weigh business goals with our colleagues expectations; creating components and Figma library solutions that exceed both. Our Digital Design System is central to our design vision at Tesco. So; youll need true expertise working on all aspects of one. Youll know how to fail fast; get back up; and try again.
Audiences dont get bigger or more diverse than this. So; youll really need to know your onions. That includes a big appetite for the latest design and engineering technology; AI; prototyping and testing; and data and analytics. Collaboration mixed with expertise and insight is the recipe for successful design. So; youll be working with some of the finest UX and UI designers; researchers; UX writers; service designers; data and analytics experts; product managers and developers.
Heres a taste of what you can expect:
Youll join a business that values your expertise; experience; and insight. That nurtures your personal and career growth; with opportunities for every stage of your journey. Youll be a crucial part of a talented team full of people from all backgrounds that share your drive and ambition. Youll enjoy a hybrid role that creates the perfect work/life balance; helping you be who you are both professionally and personally. And a benefits package thats more than competitive.
About the role:
Collaborate with your team members to design and maintain our platform libraries using variants; tokens; and other organizing and scaling principles resulting in flexible; reusable components for our platform libraries that are suitable for both designers to use in Figma and that are technically feasible for our engineers.
Implement and maintain processes to ensure the continued relevance and best user experience of the design system; including research and testing its effectiveness.
Work hand in hand with the product teams to bring the design system to life inside all UI projects and help evolve our Digital Design System based on user needs.
Work with product teams to identify opportunities for simplifying designs across products across the different business areas to keep our design system lean and efficient.
Deliver valuable; highquality; and consistent work without sacrificing speed.
Help plan tasks against team objectives; strategic drivers; and key projects.
Create and maintain end user documentation describing the standards and best practices of our component library as a reference for our users.
Create and maintain engineering handover documentation. Work closely with engineering teams to understand feasibility of design ideas and ensure review of design implementation at key stages of the development cycle.
Deeply understand design to development handover and can support other teams in this area.
Be the voice of the Digital Design System (DDS) for designers in other teams; helping them use the system to produce brilliant work.
Use Figma and Engineering analytics to help inform your work.
Promote inclusive design practices and deliver accessible (AA)designs and components.
Own all endtoend UI process activities relevant to the design system workflow.
Collaborate with different disciplines inside product teams; working closely with UX & UI designers; researchers; UX writers; engineers; product managers; data analysts; and business stakeholders to explore; use; test and contribute to the design system.
Champion humancentred design inside and outside of your team.
Know how to validate your designs via A/B testing; unmoderated; usability testing; etc.
Facilitate workshops; run appropriate conceptualisation and participatory design sessions.
Help other disciplines understand the value the design system can bring to a project to build the best products.
Continuously seek to improve design processes inside and outside of your team to gain efficiency; remove obstacles; and simplify workflows.
Provide feedback to other designers to help strengthen your team and Tesco as a whole.
Help your teammates build expertise; strong decisionmaking skills; and empathy for our users.
Embrace opportunities to line manage other designers and help with their learning and development.
Work with the Design Manager to cultivate a positive; supportive; and inclusive team culture.

Qualifications :

You must be proactive; creative; flexible; resilient; and able to handle high levels of complexity and ambiguity.
You will also need:
5 years UI design experience.
A positive; constructive cando attitude.
You are selfdriven; motivated; independent.
You have good organisational and timemanagement skills
You are a system designer/thinker; you live by organisation and structure and efficiency.
A strong and demonstrable ability to simplify the complex.
You bring a systematic; scalable design approach to your work; considering how best to deliver component libraries; layouts; templates; and icons that scale across numerous platforms and products.
Demonstrable significant experience designing and working on design systems for large organisations.
A passion for the latest design; AI; and engineering technology
You excel at bridging the gap between design and engineering.
A strong; wellcurated portfolio demonstrating your expertise in design systems.
The highest level of proficiency with the latest versions of Figma; specifically Figma focused on their library features.
Expertise in designing with accessibility in mind and meeting WCAG 2.1 level AA for component and product design.
Ability to constructively critique design.
The ability to work independently as well as collaboratively.
A solid understanding of existing design systems such as Material design; and Fluent Design & an obsession with digital trends and design
Experience collaborating closely with multiple disciplines; including product and engineering.
Demonstrable ability to coach; mentor and set standards for ways of working.
Proactively share and communicate design expertise and knowledge with your peers and teams.
Strong written and verbal English communication skills; and the ability to present to all levels of seniority and subject area experts within the organisation.
A strong understanding of the endtoend iterative design double diamond process.
Proficiency with current industry design and collaboration tools such Miro etc.
Exceptional visual & interaction design sensibility
Exceptional attention to detail; and a passion for building quality products
A strong knowledge of the latest design and prototyping tools and technologies.
Passion for solving problems while balancing all facets of a user experience.
Its an advantage if you also have:
Grad or Master from Design School/University is a is a strong advantage
Some engineering background is a strong advantage.
Previous experience in the retail sector.
Strong experience in a range of highprofile design projects in a customer & business facing environment.

Additional Information :

Hiring Manager: Kaushal Mishra
Last date of application: 10th Feb 2025

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime