UX Designer - Design Systems

A Senior Design Systems Designer role at Twitch, responsible for evolving and maintaining Twitch's design system to support building and maintaining a cross-platform live streaming service.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with designers and engineers to evolve and maintain Twitch's design system and product visual language
• Leading the creation and refinement of UI components, patterns, and template libraries
• Translating visual language principles into clear, actionable documentation and guidelines
• Participating in design system working sessions and workshops with product teams
• Contributing to the strategic roadmap for the design system's evolution
• Advocating for accessibility standards and ensuring compliance across components
• Maintaining an openness to feedback, a passion for cross-functional collaboration, and excitement about shaping a visual language and design system
• Participating in design reviews and QA processes to ensure fidelity and consistency across all feature implementations

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in building design systems as a product, platform or visual designer, ideally within tech or digital product environments with an emphasis on mobile design
• A portfolio that demonstrates excellent visual craft and systematic thinking, particularly around scaling brand and visual identity
• Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams and communicate visual decisions with clarity
• Deep understanding of design system principles, governance and accessibility standards (WCAG) including implementation in the design system
• Proficiency in Figma and industry-standard tools (Adobe Creative Suite, After Effects, or equivalent) and iOS and Android operating systems
• Experience with design system documentation platforms (e.g., Storybook, Zeroheight)
• Familiarity with design tokens and related tooling and workflows
• Experience with design version management

Key Skills

• design systems
• product design
• platform design
• visual design
• cross-functional collaboration
• design system principles
• governance
• accessibility standards
• WCAG
• Figma
• Adobe Creative Suite
• After Effects
• iOS
• Android
• design system documentation
• Storybook
• Zeroheight
• design tokens
• design version management

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
• 401(k)
• Maternity & Parental Leave
• Flexible PTO
• Amazon Employee Discount