UX Designer - Design Systems

The role involves collaborating with designers and engineers to evolve and maintain Twitch's design system, ensuring consistency and efficiency across platforms. You will lead the creation of UI components and advocate for accessibility standards while participating in design reviews and QA processes.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with designers and engineers to evolve and maintain Twitch's design system and product visual language, including color, typography, iconography, motion, grid, shape, illustration, and 3D, while demonstrating a high level of attention to detail and a commitment to refining the polish and performance of your work
• Lead the creation and refinement of UI components, patterns, and template libraries, ensuring each element meets high visual craft standards, aligns with accessibility goals, and reflects a systematic approach to design with a strong eye for consistency
• Translate visual language principles into clear, actionable documentation and guidelines for widespread adoption by design and engineering teams, demonstrating your ability to present complex system decisions to diverse audiences
• Participate in design system working sessions and workshops with product teams and demonstrating your comfort in presenting system decisions
• Contribute to the strategic roadmap for the design system's evolution, showing eagerness to learn, iterate, and contribute to a growing, evolving visual system
• Advocate for accessibility standards and ensure compliance across components, reflecting your commitment to inclusive design practices
• Maintain an openness to feedback, a passion for cross-functional collaboration, and excitement about shaping a visual language and design system that reaches millions of users every day
• Participate in design reviews and QA processes to ensure fidelity and consistency across all feature implementations, showcasing your high standards for visual craft

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

• Visual craft
• Systematic thinking
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Design system principles
• Accessibility standards (WCAG)
• Figma
• Adobe Creative Suite
• After Effects
• iOS and Android operating systems
• Design system documentation platforms (e.g., Storybook, Zeroheight)
• Design tokens and related tooling and workflows
• Design version management

Benefits

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