Senior UI Designer, System Designs

Job Description

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