Designer Design Systems

Calgary - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 13 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Designer specializes in Design Systems collaborating with creative and technical teams to develop elegant cohesive visual designs for websites marketing event emails and select non-interactive elements. This hands-on role balances creativity and logic ensuring a holistic approach across typography iconography motion and interface design.

The ideal candidate has strong communication and presentation skills and contributes to positive collaboration with multi-disciplinary team members; a strong understanding of branding principles style guides and product design; an elegant design aesthetic with exceptional attention to detail.

You will:

Contribute to the creation of holistic elegant design systems with a high degree of polish and attention to detail.
Audit current implementations and identify potential areas for simplification and improved consistency.
Design with flexibility in mind ensuring designs are accessible and adaptive to varying workflows viewports technologies and locales.
Stress test designs across all possible variations and refine as needed.
Create prototypes to convey states transitions and/or behaviors.
Prepare design files for final documentation.
Ensure layout typography and specs are pixel perfect.
Communicate flexibilities and/or limitations to both designers and development as needed.
Work closely with the Senior Art Director to understand design direction and help inform priorities.
Collaborate with Art Directors and larger project teams to explore and iterate on design options.
Consult with technical disciplines to ensure designs work within given limitations and files are prepared with all necessary information to support the design intent.
Promote thoughtful and purposeful design rather than an enforcement of rules.
Help define and/or improve how teams collaborate and leverage existing tools.
Determine the best medium and optimize design files for creative review be it print onscreen visuals prototype or code.
Create presentation flows that establish and build on a foundation of design rationale.

You have:

Pixel-perfect digital design portfolio highlighting your storytelling and problem-solving capabilities from concept to completion.
Keen interest in championing brand identity through a balance of consistency and flexibility.
Proficiency in the formal elements of design with a strong focus on typography balance and proportion.
Systematic thinker; able to anticipate the impact of design decisions well in advance of their application.
Excellent digital file structure and asset management skills.
Passion for pixel-perfection and order. Unparalleled attention to detail.
Ability to articulate ideas verbally and digitally; be clearly understood by creative product management and development staff.
Ability to deliver strong design rationale and supporting files in a tight timeframe.
Ability to thrive in a challenging fast-paced creative workplace.
3 years experience in product design (especially for web) defining or extending design systems and/or working within a brands strict style guidelines.
Figma Photoshop and Sketch expertise including file organization and preparation of pixel-perfect files for design team use.
Clear communication and presentation skills that speak to both creative and technical audiences.
Strong understanding of web development including HTML and CSS.
UX and/or UI experience acuity in iconography and working knowledge of Principle.
Clearly articulate design rationale and any applicable limitations.
Participate in healthy debates to ensure design systems are as robust and considered as possible.

What We Offer

Maternity and parental leave extra days
Competitive benefits packages
Vacation compassionate leave sick days and flex days
Access to online services for families and new parents
End-of-year closure days (not deducted from vacation balance)
Diversity and Inclusion Board with 12 affinity groups
Internal learning and development programs
Enterprise-wide employee discounts
And more

At Critical Mass we value our employees and offer competitive compensation and benefits packages. If youre looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of our employees we encourage you to apply for this exciting position today!

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training onboarding and employee experience possible! Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization and we want to set you up for long-term an effort to do so we expect our team towork on site 5 days a week.

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer.

The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs and. We will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger WhatsApp or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. We will never ask you to send us money technology or anything else to work for our company. If you believe you are the victim of a scam please review your local government consumer protections guidance and reach out to them directly.

If U.S. based: Canada based: U.K. based: Costa Rica based: Experience:

We create applications which drive one of the worlds most trafficked websites. We play an active role helping our client connect their consumers globally through mobile digital and in-store experiences.The Designer specializes in Design Systems collaborating with creative and technical teams to deve...

You will:

Contribute to the creation of holistic elegant design systems with a high degree of polish and attention to detail.
Audit current implementations and identify potential areas for simplification and improved consistency.
Design with flexibility in mind ensuring designs are accessible and adaptive to varying workflows viewports technologies and locales.
Stress test designs across all possible variations and refine as needed.
Create prototypes to convey states transitions and/or behaviors.
Prepare design files for final documentation.
Ensure layout typography and specs are pixel perfect.
Communicate flexibilities and/or limitations to both designers and development as needed.
Work closely with the Senior Art Director to understand design direction and help inform priorities.
Collaborate with Art Directors and larger project teams to explore and iterate on design options.
Consult with technical disciplines to ensure designs work within given limitations and files are prepared with all necessary information to support the design intent.
Promote thoughtful and purposeful design rather than an enforcement of rules.
Help define and/or improve how teams collaborate and leverage existing tools.
Determine the best medium and optimize design files for creative review be it print onscreen visuals prototype or code.
Create presentation flows that establish and build on a foundation of design rationale.

You have:

Pixel-perfect digital design portfolio highlighting your storytelling and problem-solving capabilities from concept to completion.
Keen interest in championing brand identity through a balance of consistency and flexibility.
Proficiency in the formal elements of design with a strong focus on typography balance and proportion.
Systematic thinker; able to anticipate the impact of design decisions well in advance of their application.
Excellent digital file structure and asset management skills.
Passion for pixel-perfection and order. Unparalleled attention to detail.
Ability to articulate ideas verbally and digitally; be clearly understood by creative product management and development staff.
Ability to deliver strong design rationale and supporting files in a tight timeframe.
Ability to thrive in a challenging fast-paced creative workplace.
3 years experience in product design (especially for web) defining or extending design systems and/or working within a brands strict style guidelines.
Figma Photoshop and Sketch expertise including file organization and preparation of pixel-perfect files for design team use.
Clear communication and presentation skills that speak to both creative and technical audiences.
Strong understanding of web development including HTML and CSS.
UX and/or UI experience acuity in iconography and working knowledge of Principle.
Clearly articulate design rationale and any applicable limitations.
Participate in healthy debates to ensure design systems are as robust and considered as possible.

What We Offer