Senior/Lead Design System Designer
• Tech Level: Senior/Lead
• Language Proficiency: Upper-Intermediate
• Employment type: Full time
• Candidate Location: Poland
• Working Time Zone: CET
• Start: ASAP
• Planned Work Duration: 12 months
Customer Description:
The customer is a regulated digital asset bank operating in Europe.
It focuses on providing secure and compliant financial services related to digital assets for institutional and private clients, operating at the intersection of traditional finance and emerging digital technologies.
Project Description:
The project involves building a unified cross-product e-banking portal with the goal of becoming state-of-the-art across both traditional banking and digital asset platforms.
The role focuses on auditing, refining, and scaling an existing design system, ensuring it is robust, extensible, and aligned with long-term product strategy through close collaboration with engineering teams.
Project Phase: ongoing
Project Team:
Design and front-end engineering teams
Soft Skills:
• Strategic and systems-level thinking
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with engineering leadership
• Ability to justify design decisions using efficiency, scalability, and maintainability arguments
Hard Skills / Must Have:
• 2+ years of experience in product design (UI/UX)
• 5+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling design systems at an organizational level
• Proven experience evolving design systems for products with a large user base
• Expert-level proficiency in Figma including components, tokens, variants, auto-layouts, and plugins
• Deep understanding of design tokens and component architecture and their connection to code
• Experience defining and maintaining typography and color guidelines within a design system
• Strong focus on responsive and scalable component design across devices
• Experience integrating design systems with front-end frameworks such as Storybook, React, or MUI
• Knowledge of WCAG and accessibility standards and their implementation in components
• Strong documentation skills for organizing and maintaining component libraries
Hard Skills / Nice to Have:
• Experience with multi-brand or cross-platform design systems
• Background in regulated digital finance or similar domains
Responsibilities and Tasks:
• Define the architecture and long-term vision of the design system to ensure scalability and efficiency
• Develop and maintain visual guidelines including typography, color, spacing, and grids
• Build, document, and maintain responsive component libraries based on MUI
• Establish processes for system updates, quality control, and adoption across teams
• Collaborate closely with UX leadership and front-end engineering teams
• Conduct design reviews and promote best practices for system usage
Technology Stack: Figma, Design Systems, MUI, Design Tokens & component architecture, WCAG / accessibility
📩 Ready to Join?
We look forward to receiving your application and welcoming you to our team!
- Locations
- Poland
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
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