Product Designer

In 2024 Yext acquired Hearsay Systems bringing together two industry leaders to form one unified organization. By combining Yexts brand visibility expertise with Hearsays best-in-class compliant engagement solutions were delivering even greater value to our customers. Our integrated approach unlocks a deeper set of data insights and recommendations empowering brands to convert prospects into customers faster and more effectively.

Help scale and evolve our design system into a mature accessible high-adoption platform that powers our enterprise SaaS this role youll bring proven experience in scaling systems for complex applications collaborate closely with designers engineers and product teams to bring a modern cohesive look and feel to every product touchpoint. Youll be an advocate for our system helping ensure we have a strong foundational design language created for modern rapid innovation and delivering on experiences our customers will love to use. If you love the balance of design rigor and systems thinking then this is the opportunity for you.

What Youll Do

• Contribute to the evolution of a scalable design system that improves product consistency accessibility and usability.
• with engineering to ensure smooth implementation and quality alignment between design tokens components and code.
• Collaborate with product teams (design engineering) who consume the system to gather feedback identify gaps and shape features that meet their needs.
• Track and report adoption metrics using insights to drive system improvements and advocate for system use across the organization.
• Proactively identify and address usability problems and opportunities across the platform through hands-on usage of our products.
• Bring a modern fresh perspective to the UIintroducing design patterns visual styles and interaction approaches that elevate the overall experience.
• Create maintain and improve system documentation in a clear consumable format for designers and engineers.
• Participate in user testing and validation of components ensuring accessibility responsiveness and adherence to UX best practices.
• Work effectively in a fast-paced iterative environment balancing quality with speed to deliver value quickly.
• Co-lead initiatives with Design Product Management and Engineering to align the system with business goals technical constraints and user needs.
• Mentor peers on design system best practices and influence product teams to take a systematic approach to design.

What Youll Have

• 2-4 years of experience designing and shipping digital products and design systems
• Training and comfort using the tools and practices of HCD UX and Design Systems Figma Zeroheight Storybook GitHub.
• Demonstrated success incorporating WCAG accessibility practices and tools (e.g. Stark) into componentry and tokens.
• Comfortable using AI tools to streamline your workflow while exercising a discerning eye to edit and refine outputs.
• Experience participating in the product development process as an equal partner to Product Managers and Engineering.
• Demonstrated systems thinker with a broad and holistic approach to understand how all the pieces connect together.
• An understanding of how research data heuristics and design sense play into decision making.
• Experience designing componentry and collaborating with Engineering through the end-to-end process
• Proven ability to manage multiple design requests in a timely fashion with competing priorities and deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate asynchronously and with teams across time zones. .
• Fluent in conversational and written English communication.

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with device screen sizes and responsive grid principles
• Familiarity with frontend technologies (HTML CSS JavaScript etc.)
• Inclination to tinker and experiment with the goal of improving and scaling workflows
• Experience designing for variable data and multiple form-factors
• Ability to create usage guides and annotations to be used cross-functionally
• Interaction design sensibility for micro-interactions and motion

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