Contract Senior Design Systems Designer

Location: Europe / PT

Department: Product Design

Hours: Full-Time

Contract type: Contract

About YLD:

Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward.  Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract, inspire, develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London, Lisbon, Porto.

About The Role:

We’re looking for a very seasoned and experienced hands on Design Systems Designer with proven Design Systems skills and good UX knowledge to join our Product Design team on a contract basis.

In this role, you will be working alongside a cross functional team of designers and engineers to help shape and scale a new multi-product covering Design System that will amaze end-users and lead our clients to success, so make sure you arrive ready to have an impact.

You’ll have the following skills and experience:

• Significant experience in Design Systems and UI design;
• Are confident with creating UI components independently to craft a reusable Design Systems.
• Experience in UX Design, Product Strategy, UI / Interaction Design;
• Experience working with Storybook, and we also welcome experience with Zeroheight / Supernova (or similar);
• Experience with animation and incorporating it into UI is very much welcomed;
• Experience working with, or good knowledge of implementing web accessibility would also be a big bonus;
• Know your way very well around Figma, incl. Tokens and Theming;
• You have very good understanding of how a Design System is set up, maintained and scaled up;
• You’re comfortable in the design software of your choice, but generally software agnostic with a keen ability to pick up a new one quickly, should it be required (e.g. Figma, Framer, Adobe XD, Sketch, Marvel, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.);
• You’ll deliver quality design work and inspire our clients to work towards these standards;
• You can balance relatively complex user, business, and technical requirements to arrive at sound information-architecture designs;
• When it comes to visual outputs, you always base your decisions on solid visual design principles and are proficient in using the right tool for the job;
• You expertly collaborate with product teams to understand how all aspects of a product’s functionality would work within an established visual design framework;
• Coding skills / ability would be a benefit, but is in no way essential;

Non-technical competencies:

• Your ability to work autonomously means that you’re equally comfortable working in a fully remote environment, as you would be in an office environment;
• You can work closely with the rest of the product team, including front and back-end engineers, and PO /PM to ensure implementation is of a high standard and quality;
• Your experience allows you to understand the business as a whole, and to identify proactively where your / our impact can be bigger;
• You’re able to challenge your team to think critically in solving problems;
• You can facilitate (or lead) effective problem-solving in meetings and group settings, or whenever needed;
• You’re happy and comfortable taking part in design critiques, and also in having your own work critiqued;
• You have a combination of experience across designing for mobile and web user-focused applications, as well as denser, information-rich interfaces.

What we'd like to see from you:

• A portfolio (pdf, presentation or website) demonstrating critical thinking, creativity and visual design as well as Design Systems experience
• Be able to talk about and clearly explain and show your thought process, approach and strategy in connection to your finished work
• CV outlining any professional experience and creative training/education, incl. any kind of official UX / UI training that you may have
• All written documents must be sent in English

What you’ll get in return:

• The chance to work in an exciting industry on a rewarding product where you will have a chance to develop and grow your skills in a fast-moving business

Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:

• 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
• Interview & Portfolio Review with Head of Product Design and one Senior Designer (~1h30)
• Successful candidates only; Call with Client Partner of the Project (15-30 min)

We live and breathe our values, and know you will too:

• Growing every day
• Including everyone
• Relationships built on honesty and ethics
• Inspiring solutions
• Winning together

We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We don’t discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability status. Likewise, we also offer a remote-first working environment, meaning that flexible working and work-life balance come as standard for all employees.