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"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
— Leonardo da Vinci
As a Design System Designer, you will create and maintain library components and establish design standards for scalability and consistency. You will support product designers and development teams, ensuring components are built according to design specifications.
Responsibilities
- Creating & maintaining the library components (primarily in Figma) and maintaining our documentation website
- Establish design standards and principles accompanying the design system for scalability, efficiency, and consistency
- Work with and support product designers by providing clear feedback on usage, conventions, and patterns and help create new components, and promote best practices
- Support development teams by ensuring components are built according to design and interaction specifications
- Work closely with brand teams to ensure brand vision is conveyed in the design system
- Evaluate and improve usability and accessibility of components, and be a champion for the user
- Occasionally conduct/participate in user research where relevant to the design system
- Bring new ideas to the table and define next-generation interfaces raising the bar of design at Tide
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience working in Product teams as a Design System specialist
- You have a portfolio that shows design systems you have created or largely contributed to and 2+ years of experience working on design systems
- Experience designing on multiple platforms (Web, iOS, Android, etc)
- You are a Figma power-user
- Excellent presentation and documentation skills
- Keen eye for visual design / Brand craft
- You enjoy socialising a design system across an internal organisation. You care about partnering and collaborating through documentation, office hours, and pairing up with fellow designers
- You're passionate about creating inclusive & accessible products and have a good understanding of designing for accessibility
- Able to work independently as well as collaborate with diverse teams in a dynamic, rapid-growth environment
- Comfortable working with virtual teams across multiple time zones and geographies
- You are an open communicator, able to accept and deliver feedback
- You leave no stone unturned in your quest for delivery
- Early adopter who enjoys staying current on technology, design, and keenly aware of trends
Key Skills
- Design System specialist
- Portfolio showing design systems
- Experience designing on multiple platforms (Web, iOS, Android, etc)
- Figma power-user
- Presentation and documentation skills
- Visual design / Brand craft
- Socialising a design system across an internal organisation
- Creating inclusive & accessible products
- Working independently and collaborating with diverse teams
- Comfortable working with virtual teams across multiple time zones and geographies
- Open communicator, able to accept and deliver feedback
- Early adopter who enjoys staying current on technology, design, and trends
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Self & Family Health Insurance
- Term & Life Insurance
- OPD Benefits
- Mental wellbeing through Plumm
- Learning & Development Budget
- WFH Setup allowance
- Stock Options
About Careers At Tide
Tide helps SMEs save time (and money) in the running of their businesses by not only offering business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly usable and connected administrative solutions from invoicing to accounting. Tide is transforming the small business banking market with over 1 million globally across the UK, India and Germany. Using advanced technology, all solutions are designed with SMEs in mind. With quick onboarding, low fees and innovative features, we thrive on making data-driven decisions to help SMEs save both time and money. Tide was named one of CB Insights global Fintech 250 and Beahurst’s The Fintech Top 50 for the UK in 2023. Tide has also been recognised with the Great Place to Work certification in 2023 and 2024. Tide facts: > Tide is available for UK, Indian and German SMEs > Over 650,000 UK members and growing rapidly > Over 500,000 India members since December 2022 > Over £200 million raised in funding > Over 2500 Tide
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