Granicus is looking for an energetic, outcome focused, Senior UI Designer to manage and grow our Design Systems. Working closely without team of UX Designers and Front-end Developers, reporting to the Director of UX Design.
The focus of this role is to craft, share, and safeguard the building blocks of the UIs of Granicus software from components to processes
What your impact will look like here
You will be growing a very capable design system for one product, to one that works for six products, over ten engineering teams, and over five UX designers.
As an experienced UI designer, you will be responsible for the user experience and visual design quality of the contents of the design system.
As a systematic thinker and excellent communicator, you will implement design system
processes and document and share updates to the design system.
You will be responsible for:
Refreshing the existing design system structure and processes
The quality of components
Aligning with stakeholders on design system content
Writing the design system content
Checking that coded components match the designs
Working with designers and developers to design and create components in
Figma
Working with developers create components in Storybook
The speed of delivery of components
Planning the delivery of components
Your days may typically consist of:
Adding components to the design system in the documented source of truth and Figma
Using your top-notch Figma skills to create responsive and props-based
Components that work for developers and designers
Working with Engineering to add components to Storybook
Communicating updates to the cross-functional teams
Managing expectations and stakeholders
You will love this job if you have
A keen eye for detail
Have a passion for simplifying complexity
Enjoy sharing knowledge
Adaptive communication style to suit different audiences
Required experience, knowledge, and skills:
Over 2 years of experience in maintaining an enterprise software design system making components and templates, Documenting components, principles, requirements and working with effective processes
Over3years of experience in enterprise software design in a large software company (Please note we are not looking for a designer from a mobile apps or websites background)
Excellent understanding of the structure and popular patterns used in enterprise software
Atomic design practitioner
Understands how UI component sets work for designers and developers
Industry leading,100% up-to-date, skills in Figma
Excellent understanding of CSS
Excellent eye for design
Understanding of build effort for UIs and ability to balance quality and time
Good to have:
Experience in stakeholder management and shaping processes in a software company
Previous experience of designing with, or design systems using; Material-UI, Chakra or Amplify
Design Degree, Bain UX, Graphic Design, or related area
Other:
This position will have a 6-month probation period
This role is subject to a background check
This role may require domestic and/or international travel from time to time
Shortlisted applicants will be required to showcase a portfolio of their previous work and demonstrate their knowledge and capabilities
Candidates should be prepared to do a design walk through and task as part of the interview process