Design System Contractor

As a contract Product Designer at Sigma, you will collaborate closely with design system and product design stakeholders to advance Sigma’s design system and create scalable, accessible UI components.

Responsibilities

• Actively contribute to extending the Phi design system, fostering cross-team collaboration and adoption
• Design new components and enhance existing ones within Figma libraries
• Work closely with the Design System Design and Engineering Leads to align design and code across Figma and Storybook
• Define and document reusable components and patterns
• Explore how AI tooling can optimize system documentation workflows and efficiency

Requirements

• 3+ years of product design experience, with a focus on design systems in product-led environments
• Strong visual design skills, including a deep understanding of layout, hierarchy, and interaction
• Technical fluency in Figma
• Expertise in variants, style management, variables, design tokens, semantic structure, etc.
• Familiarity with Storybook to ensure design-code consistency
• Excellent communication skills, demonstrating clear, thoughtful collaboration and proficiency in documentation
• Comfort working in fast-paced, iterative, and ambiguous environments
• Portfolio requirements: libraries that you have successfully released, demonstrating system-wide thinking, and depth UX design skills

Key Skills

• Product design experience
• Design systems
• Visual design
• Figma
• Storybook
• Communication skills
• AI tooling