Principal Experience Designer, Design Systems

The Principal Experience Designer Design Systems sets the vision for the design system and works with leadership to develop a roadmap aligned with the needs of the design system consumers. You will own the creative vision of the design system and drive delivery of highquality UI components and patterns to support the continuous raising of design standards across TIAA. You will partner with engineering product brand and marketing teams to support the delivery of highquality accessible and brandconsistent design solutions to our digital experiences allowing TIAA to achieve its mission of retirement security for its customers.

By innovating on one of the worlds biggest stages you will have the chance to shape the future of retirement. If you are motivated by complex purposeful and engaging challenges then we invite you to join us on our mission!

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Define and lead strategic initiatives from conception to release within the design systems team and wider design community to evolve and grow the design system and design practice.
  
• Identify opportunities to improve processes efficiencies and impact within the team and the design system as a whole.
  
• Evangelize the benefits of the design system to leadership and crossfunctional teams.
  
• Collaborate with partners to define maintain and improve on a design system contribution model for the design and engineering organizations. This includes facilitating the sharing of productspecific components and patterns.
• Support adoption and consumption of the design system through rituals such as Office Hours communications and training sessions and events.
  
• Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to gather requirements and feedback for the design system

Educational Requirements

• University (Degree) Preferred

Work Experience

• 5 Years Required; 7 Years Preferred

Physical Requirements

• Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

Career Level
9IC

Additional Responsibilities and Duties:

• Express yourself as a continuous learner who is selfaware curious to learn and seeks feedback from others to continuously grow always putting improvement over comfort.
• Build trustbased relationships across boundaries and encourage collaboration. Show up authentically and adapt your own style to communicate impactfully.
• Lead as an accountable achiever. Others rely on you to get things done raising the bar for performance while taking accountability for your own actions.
• Express yourself as a considerate thinker that sees the big picture while understanding how to drive impact through allocating the right people against the right work that will drive meaningful impact.
• Drive experiences with an outcomes focus actively scanning the endtoend experience for new approaches blending different ideas to challenge the teams with creative yet effective solutions.
  

Preferred Experience & Qualifications

• 7 years of UX design and / or design management experience
• Proven experience in starting implementing and governing design systems across a large scale
• Strong and demonstrated background in: enterprise experience design; consumer product design; mobile platform design in an agile delivery model and a track record of shipping high impact outcomes in a fastmoving and changing environment
• Strong and demonstrated proficiency in Figma especially design system features and approaches.
• Strong understanding of design tokens including how to architect resilient token architectures
• Experience with HTML CSS and Javascript (our stack includes Angular) to be able to have conversations with development partners about implementation details.
• Familiarity with content management systems or static site generators (and markdown) for maintaining documentation sites

Anticipated Posting End Date:

Actual base salary may vary based upon but not limited to relevant experience time in role base salary of internal peers prior performance business sector and geographic location. In addition to base salary the competitive compensation package may include depending on the role participation in an incentive program linked to performance (for example annual discretionary incentive programs nonannual sales incentive plans or other nonannual incentive plans).

Company Overview

Every worker deserves a secure retirement. For more than 100 years TIAA has delivered it for millions of people. Founded to help educators retire with dignity today were a marketleading retirement company fueled by worldclass asset management. But were not just another legacy financial services firm. Were fighting harder than ever before for our clients and the many Americans who need us.

Benefits and Total Rewards

The organization is committed to making financial wellbeing possible for its clients and is equally committed to the wellbeing of our associates. Thats why we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package designed to make a positive difference in the lives of our associates and their loved ones. Our benefits include a superior retirement program and highly competitive health wellness and work life offerings that can help you achieve and maintain your best possible physical emotional and financial wellbeing. To learn more about your benefits please review our Benefits Summary.

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