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UX Designer, Design System

Waymo 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America

Hybrid $230,000 - $292,000 Full-time Senior

The role involves architecting and stewarding the Waymo Design System by defining foundational patterns that connect digital interfaces with physical rider behaviors, while establishing best-in-class design standards, potentially leveraging AI. This person will also forge cross-functional partnerships to institutionalize the Design System, reduce technical debt, and advocate for design excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and steward the Waymo Design System
  • Establish and evolve best-in-class design standards
  • Forge deep cross-functional partnerships with Engineering and Product
  • Advocate for design excellence at every level
  • Operationalize User Experience Research insights into scalable system components

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in UX and/or Product Design
  • Proven track record of architecting and maintaining large-scale Design Systems
  • Expert proficiency in Figma
  • Deep technical expertise in Variables, Auto-layout, Component Properties, and Variants
  • Passion for the 'internal UX' of a design system

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Generous Company benefits program
  • Discretionary annual bonus program
  • Equity incentive plan

Key Skills

Figma Design systems UX design Product design Variables Auto-layout Component Properties Variants WCAG compliance Cross-functional collaboration Leadership Mentoring Communication User research User experience design

About Waymo

On the journey to be the world's most trusted driver. With the Waymo Driver, we can improve mobility while saving thousands of lives. Download the Waymo One app and ride today. Waymo reaches out to candidates from official channels only (e.g. directly from @waymo.com email addresses, or through our recruiters or sourcers who are noted as such on LinkedIn). We do not contact candidates about career opportunities through instant messaging apps like Telegram, email addresses from domains other than waymo.com (such as Gmail addresses), direct messages on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, or text messages. Visit waymo.com to check out our official job listings. Need support? Send us a message – we're here to help.

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