Product Design Lead – Design Systems
| Job Type | Other |
| Location | Dubai |
| Area | Manchester, United Kingdom |
| Sector | Design JobsTechnical and Development Jobs |
| Salary | £65,000 |
| Start Date | asap |
| Advertiser | Mags Rendle |
| Job Ref | AASDS334 |
| Job Views | 256 |
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Product Design Lead – Design Systems
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Media City – Manchester
Salary: Up to £65k depending on experience
Consultant: Mags Rendle
An international healthcare company with headquarters in the United Kingdon and serving over 38 million customers worldwide are looking to hire a Product Design Lead. With no shareholders they reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers.
We currently employ around 85,000 people, principally in the UK, Australia, Spain, Chile, Poland, New Zealand, Hong Kong SAR, Türkiye, Brazil, Mexico, the US, Middle East and Ireland and have associate businesses in Saudi Arabia and India.
This is your opportunity to work with a passionate and talented multi-disciplinary experienced design team, in a truly special and supportive working environment with staff development and progression is a real focus.
The Role
You’ll sit alongside a passionate and talented multi-disciplinary experience design team, made up of user researchers, product designers, content designers and design operations, who are focused on creating the best digital experiences for customers in the UK.
As product design lead in the experience design team, your primary focus is to shape and expand our design system, ‘Anatomy’, that supports and enhances our digital products and services. You’ll work alongside a design system product owner and dedicated design system designers & developers to continuously improve component libraries, contribution models, documentation & guidelines and build advocacy across the organisation.
A key member of our design leadership team you will lead a group of Product Designers and provide mentorship and support to facilitate development, encourage growth and foster a culture of care and candour.
What will you be doing?
- As an individual contributor, you’ll be hands on in the design system squad, helping build the elements of the system atomically, craft documentation and help develop a holistic strategy to evolve the design system.
- Contribute to improving customer experience across products and services using the design system as a catalyst for improved accessibility.
- You’ll provide visual direction and drive the standard for user interface design to help bring consistency to a complex, often unconnected, system of systems.
- As a focal point for ‘Anatomy’, you’ll handle taking users and stakeholders on a journey so that the story of the design system is strong and understood.
- You’ll onboard new users and supply training to help new adopters understand how they can use the design system and contribute to the community.
- Develop Quantitative behavioural metrics focus on how users interact with the design system.
- Develop Qualitative attitudinal metrics focus on how users feel about the design system, based mainly on user feedback.
- Document and share your research and insight to provide rationale for the teams’ design system decisions.
- You will lead playbacks, design crits and other community of practice sessions to showcase the squad’s work, enable constructive feedback and elevate the quality of the squad’s craft.
- Help the team build out a rounded view of design systems to encompass more than just the components (documentation, tooling, governance, contribution, community, outcomes & metrics).
- Advocate the adoption of the Design System across platforms and teams building a community of contribution and understanding.
Who are we looking for?
- You are a product designer who is passionate about design systems.
- You are excited about shaping a design system that is central to designing great customer experiences across multiple products and services.
- A visual designer with a rich experience of user interface design who sets the standard for their peers and the organisation.
- You’ve worked on large, complex design systems supporting communities of multiple disciplines.
- Someone who is keen to dig in and use design systems as a mechanism to help transform a great healthcare organisation into a great digital one.
- Established ‘design thinker’ with empathy for user needs, a willingness to explore ideas and implement a ‘test and learn’ approach before launch.
- A great capable of influencing and encouraging stakeholders and peers to adopt and buy into something that was previously unfamiliar.
- A systems thinker who solves problems in a human centred way.
- Accustomed to working in an FCA regulated business is a bonus.
- Highly skilled and knowledgeable across our design systems toolkit that includes Figma, Tokens Studio, Storybook and Zeroheight.
Benefits
Their benefits are driven by what matters to their people. It’s important to us that these benefits support a work-life balance that keeps people healthy, both mentally and physically. You’ll be eligible for:
• 25 days holiday per year, pro rata to your contract.
• Access to a range of services to support your physical and mental wellbeing
• Fixed term benefits allowance
• Access to our confidential employee assistance programme
• Workplace pension
• Online discounts covering your everyday shopping, entertainment, eating out and more.
Why apply
You will have the opportunity to work with a passionate and talented multi-disciplinary experienced design team, in a truly special and supportive working environment. Staff development and progression is a real focus, and a successful career is there for the taking.
Apply below And Mags will be in touch to discuss the role further.
The Digital Recruitment Company is an Employment Business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies.
To apply for this role please contact us at:
Mags Rendle
0203 640 2133
mags@digitalrecruitmentcompany.com
www.digitalrecruitmentcompany.com
