Designer, Interactive Design Systems (Remote)
Job Summary
A Designer on projects with the Interactive Design Systems team works closely with creative and technical disciplines to create considered and elegant design systems supporting the visual design of our website, marketing, shopping, and event email communications, as well as select UI outside of Interactive. This hands-on design role balances creativity and logic, and helps ensure a holistic approach is thoughtfully applied across platform typography, iconography, motion, and interface elements.
The ideal candidate has strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to distill complex systems and provide systematic rationale for design proposals; a strong understanding of branding principles, foundational systems, UI, style guides, and documentation; an elegant design aesthetic, with exceptional attention to detail; Photoshop and Sketch expertise, including the ability to build technical design files with flexible symbols; experience working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary team members; a strong working knowledge of HTML and CSS.
Key Qualifications
- At least 7 years experience in product design (especially for web), defining or extending design systems, UI design, and/or working within a brand’s strict style guidelines.
- Photoshop and Sketch expertise, including file organization, technical symbol builds with flexibilities and overrides that reflect coded implementations, and preparation of pixel- perfect files for design team use.
- Clear communication and presentation skills that speak to both creative and technical audiences. Ability to articulate ideas verbally and through written guidance.
- Strong understanding of web development, including HTML and CSS.
- Keen interest in championing brand identity through a balance of consistency and flexibility.
- Systematic problem solver; able to anticipate the impact of design decisions well in advance of their application.
- Ability to deliver strong design rationale, and supporting files in a tight timeframe.
- Preferred: Familiarity with foundational brand systems, design tokens.
- Preferred: Acuity in motion.
- Preferred: Working knowledge of Principle.
Descriptions
Systematic and Technical Design
- Audit current implementations, identify potential areas for simplification and improved consistency.
- Design with flexibility in mind, ensuring designs are accessible and adaptive to varying workflows, viewports, technologies, and locales.
- Stress test designs across all possible variations, and refine as needed.
- Create prototypes to convey states, transitions, and/or behaviors, but ultimately prepare design files with a high level of polish and attention to detail, ensuring layout, typography, and specs are pixel perfect, for reference by development teams and use by creative teams.
Communication
- Communicate flexibilities and/or limitations to both designs and development.
- Partners with the creative branch lead to understand design direction and help inform priorities, and may work with larger project teams to explore and iterate on design options.
- Consult with technical disciplines to ensure designs work within given limitations, and files are prepared with all necessary information to support the design intent.
- Promote thoughtful and purposeful design, rather than an enforcement of rules, by helping to define and/or improve how teams collaborate and leverage existing tools.
Presentation
- Determine the best medium, and optimize design files for creative review – be it print, onscreen visuals, prototype, or code.
- Create presentation flows that establish and build on a foundation of design rationale.
- Clearly articulate design rationale and any applicable limitations.
- Participate in healthy debates to ensure design systems are as robust and considered as possible is key.
Education
BA or BFA in Graphic Design (or equivalent) preferred.
