Senior Product Designer Design Systems
Senior Product Designer Design Systems
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Job Description
Youll be joining the Garden Design Systems team an international remotefirst group of talented systems practitioners. You are a selfstarting senior designer with a passion for design systems and a mastery of your craft. You are detail oriented with a high bar for visual and interaction design and the ability to see patterns in seemingly disparate situations. Youve honed your skills in accessibility and localization. In the face of ambiguity you empathize and collaborate with endusers and colleagues to build robust systems that are clear and refined. You understand the benefit of stepping back from the artboard to focus on relationships and clearly communicate our design system to crossfunctional partners. You appreciate the value of rigorous consistency but are flexible enough to accommodate critique and change.
What youll be doing
Be a key player on a smallbutmighty team that makes an outsized impact
Augment our product design system Garden defining component usage patterns antipatterns and visual layouts
Own work from start to ship to iterateyou know there is no finish
Author and maintain documentation that enables product managers designers and engineers to get the most out of Garden
Pair with UX engineers to transform Garden components and patterns into working artifacts for implementation
Collaborate with global design product and engineering teams to establish UI pattern usage and industry best standard
What you bring to the role
Basic qualifications
46 years of professional experience designing consumer or SaaS applications
Deep knowledge of current and emerging UI patterns and able to understand the ramifications of design decisions at a global scale
A thirst for pushing the boundaries of enterprise software design with modern web UI patterns and implementation technologies
Solid verbal and written communication skills; able to explain functionality and rationale
A strong visual portfolio that showcases your work provides details of your project roles and demonstrates a systemsoriented approach from inception through delivery
Able and willing to flex your working hours to effectively work with the global team
Preferred qualifications
12 years design systems experience (member of team or contributor)
Experience designing UI for accessibility and localization
Experience working in a remotefirst environment
Nicetohave: motion design experience
Tool stack
Figma high competency required especially the design system features
Markdown for writing documentation
Github for reviews and QA
HTML CSS React no coding required but you must be able to converse with developers about implementation details
Hybrid: In this role our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection collaboration learning and celebration while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific inoffice schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
