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"Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent."
— Joe Sparano
The Lead Product Designer will design and evolve a multi-platform design system, ensuring high-quality libraries and accurate implementation across web, iOS, and Android. They will also mentor designers and champion the adoption of the design system across teams.
Responsibilities
- Designing and evolving our multi-platform design system across web, iOS and Android
- Owning the end-to-end architecture in Figma - components, patterns, tokens, motion, spacing, accessibility and documentation
- Building and maintaining high-quality libraries that designers love and engineers trust
- Partnering closely with engineering to ensure accurate, performant implementation across platforms
- Creating structure where none exists: contribution models, governance, versioning, release cycles and QA
- Running audits to spot gaps, remove friction, and evolve the system as our products scale
- Shaping how system-level thinking is applied in real product teams across trade and consumer
- Mentoring designers on how to design within, contribute to, and get the most from a complex system
- Championing adoption across teams - showing how the system speeds delivery and elevates quality
Requirements
- A track record of building or evolving robust, multi-platform design systems
- Systems thinking: the ability to connect tokens → components → patterns → brand → engineering in a cohesive, scalable way
- Mastery of Figma, with experience architecting libraries, not just consuming them
- Familiarity with engineering workflows (React, Storybook, token pipelines) and the ability to collaborate deeply with engineers
- Strong communication - the kind that brings clarity, structure, and calm to ambiguity
- Curiosity, craft pride, and a roll-your-sleeves-up attitude
Key Skills
- Figma
- React
- Storybook
- Token pipelines
- Engineering workflows
- Systems thinking
- Communication
Benefits
- Competitive salary + annual bonus or commission (role dependent)
- Health, well-being and learning support
- Gym membership, Smart Tech Scheme and Cycle Scheme
- Birthday/Special day leave
- Buy & sell holiday scheme
- 1 week’s paid charity leave and much more!
About Checkatrade
Checkatrade is one of the UK’s top online marketplaces for home improvements and repairs. Our mission is to be the trusted foundation of every home by connecting people with trades and tools to make home improvements easy – because we believe safe and happy homes improve lives, support livelihoods, and build communities. From our humble beginnings in 1998 to becoming a national household name, we’re on an exciting journey. For more than 25 years Checkatrade has stood for reputation and raising standards – whether that is for our trade members, consumers, or our colleagues. We think big and are passionate about changing the face of home improvements and repairs. Today, we are a modern online marketplace and a force for good. We strive every day to support people to improve their homes and we don’t settle for the status quo – we are evolving, innovating, and growing. With generous investment from private equity partners Brookfield, we have an ambitious growth plan and a robust roadm
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