Senior Product Designer - Design Systems

The role

You will lead the design of a significant area of the product experience by setting and advancing design foundations across mobile and web. You will treat the design system as a product and work with engineers to shape technical architecture and system structure.

What you will do

• Set, own and advance design foundations across mobile and web
• Set the standard for craft through principles, guidance and worked examples
• Shape technical architecture and system structure alongside engineers
• Treat the system as a product with real customers
• Provide a clear point of view on which patterns to use
• Turn field conditions into system standards for legibility and clarity
• Promote new product surface successes into documented, reusable foundations
• Raise designer craft through feedback, reviews and mentorship
• Champion the system across product, engineering and design leadership

Required qualifications

• 5+ years designing digital products
• Significant time spent designing and building design systems at scale
• Exceptional visual craft in typography, layout, spacing, colour, accessibility, interaction and motion design
• Proven experience shipping a design system with engineers
• Knowledge of how tokens and component libraries are structured in code
• Experience building and maintaining the Figma to code connection
• Portfolio showing foundational systems work and high-craft experiences
• Ability to make judgment explicit, teachable and useful
• Track record of coaching other designers and building alignment

Benefits

• Remuneration package including salary, benefits and an employee stock ownership plan
• Southern Cross Health Insurance
• Annual $1000 self-development budget
• 6 months fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• 4 weeks fully paid secondary caregiver leave
• Parental benefits
• Wellness leave
• Unlimited paid annual leave

Before you apply

• Relocation and visa assistance is provided

About the company

Halter enables farmers and graziers to run productive and sustainable operations using solar-powered collars and software. The company is backed by investors including Founders Fund and Blackbird.