Senior Product Designer – Design Systems

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Senior Product Designer at Anthology creating a new design language and design system for a global EdTech platform. Collaborating with engineering and product teams to enhance user experiences.

Responsibilities:

  • Defining, evolving, expanding and driving adoption of our design system and design language including typography, colour, iconography, components and patterns
  • Driving a governance framework to ensure the design system is used correctly
  • Leading design projects, combining quant/qual research insights, rapid iteration, and testing to craft data informed, user centered solutions
  • Taking broad, conceptual ideas and turning them into something useful, useable and valuable across mobile and web
  • Prototyping, testing, and iterating. Jumping between ‘discovery’ mode (trying wild ideas and prototyping in whatever you are comfortable with) and ‘delivery’ mode (nailing the flow, interactions, motion and accessibility)
  • Advocating for the user, valuing continuous discovery, and engaging with customers through research sessions, site visits, usability testing, focus groups and user conferences to inspire ideas and inform design decisions
  • Addressing short-term design needs, and delivering value to users incrementally, while making strides towards the long-term vision
  • Working collaboratively within product teams as a peer with product managers, developers and data scientists to bring your ideas to life, and contribute to the strategic product vision
  • Being autonomous. Taking full ownership of your work and responsibility for every detail, every step of the way, from whiteboard sketching to what is finally shipped
  • Taking an active role in our design community, sharing ideas, upskilling in how to best use AI and contributing to our lunch and learns

Requirements:

  • Relevant degree or equivalent experience
  • At least 5 years as a product designer on both mobile and web products
  • Excellent visual design skills as well as a solid UX design foundation
  • Excel at designing simple, inclusive, elegant products, which consider all screen sizes from mobile, through to desktop
  • Experience creating Design Systems or playing a significant contribution role
  • Strong portfolio showcasing solid user centered design practice and design execution (a portfolio link is required in your application)
  • Experience running research such as usability testing
  • Team player and exceptional communicator who simplifies complexity, tells compelling stories, and is comfortable running customer and senior level calls
  • Knowledge of inclusive design and accessibility
  • Fluency in written and spoken English.

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  • Portfolio can be a link to website or a Google Drive folder (or equivalent)