About the Role:

We’re looking for a skilled Product Designer/Engineer with strong user-centered design skills and engineering-adjacent skills to drive user experience and streamline our design-to-build process. You think like a designer but talk like an engineer. You’ll be a key collaborator, bridging the gap between design and engineering teams to ensure seamless product development. You’ll champion design operations, explore opportunities to leverage AI to automate tasks and improve efficiency, and play a vital role in maintaining and evolving our design system, with expertise in design tokens. A strong understanding of how design components translate into code is essential. You’ll have solid previous experience working in a multidisciplinary product environment. You’re proactive, evidence-based, and proficient with design tools. You can present well and clearly explain the reasoning behind your work (thinking about both user and commercial needs).

Responsibilities:

· Design intuitive user interfaces for our products.

· Champion design operations best practices.

· Campaign and get them implemented; engineers understand and use as intended and fix along the way.

· Collaborate with engineers to ensure design feasibility.

· Identify and implement workflow improvements.

· Explore and implement AI-driven design automation.

· Maintain and evolve our design system, focusing on design tokens.

Qualifications:

· 7-10 years of work experience with strong interest in design operations.

· Proven experience designing for mobile (iOS & Android) and web applications.

· Understanding of UX principles, accessibility (WCAG), and data-driven design.

· Proficiency in front-end technologies, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with experience in either Vue.js or Web Components.

· Familiar with mobile design systems, e.g. Material

· Experience building and scaling design systems in Figma/Storybook.

· Experience with design tokens and their implementation.

· Experience with Figma and Figma Make.

· Familiarity with Agile workflows (Scrum, JIRA).

· Interest in AI-powered design automation.

· Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Bonus Points:

· Experience with specific AI design tools.

· Contributions to open-source design systems.

Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Luchian Van Der Merwe