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Senior Product Designer (Design Systems)
Smartrecruiters Inc Remote (🇩🇪 Germany)
Own the end-to-end design of scalable components, patterns, and templates while ensuring accessibility and visual consistency. Collaborate with engineers and design technologists to align design intent with production code and maintain comprehensive system documentation.
Responsibilities
- Component, pattern and template design: Own the end-to-end design of system components, patterns, and templates, from concept through specification and handoff
- Accessibility leadership: Champion WCAG 2.1/2.2 compliance across the design system
- Design and code alignment: Collaborate closely with the Design Technologist and front-end engineers to ensure design decisions are technically feasible and faithfully implemented
- AI-powered design workflows: Actively use and contribute to AI-assisted design tools and workflows
- Documentation and governance: Create and maintain clear, thorough component documentation, usage guidelines, and contribution specs
- Cross-functional collaboration and Design System advocacy: Act as a visible design system advocate across the organization
- Mentorship and feedback: Share expertise in design system craft, interaction design, and accessibility with peers
Requirements
- 5+ years designing complex digital products, with meaningful time spent contributing to or owning a design system
- Proven experience working on a design system that goes beyond a Figma component library, including contribution models, documentation, governance, and design-to-code alignment
- Knowledge of AI-assisted design workflows such as design-to-code tools, prompt-based prototyping, or automation in the design process
- Strong visual and interaction design skills with a portfolio demonstrating high craft, attention to detail, and systems thinking
- Solid working knowledge of WCAG 2.1/2.2 and inclusive design principles
- Ability to design for scale, considering edge cases, responsive behavior, multi-platform contexts, and the downstream impact of every system decision
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with experience presenting design decisions to cross-functional stakeholders
- Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and component-based architecture
Benefits
- Competitive salaries
- Strong internal mobility
- Remote-friendly culture
- Opportunities for growth and development
Key Skills
About Smartrecruiters Inc
SmartRecruiters was founded on the bold belief that great companies are built through great hiring. We began by helping organizations move beyond outdated systems with a modern, flexible applicant tracking system, designed to streamline hiring and support real business outcomes. We support more than 4,000 organizations in over 120 countries, helping them transform how they attract, select, and hire talent. But in 2024, it was clear: the challenge wasn’t just legacy software. The entire model of hiring needed to change. So we created something even better. Powered by Winston, our embedded AI hiring companion, and SmartOS, our adaptive talent operating system, SmartRecruiters delivers a fully connected, AI-native platform designed for speed, simplicity, and scale. In 2025, SmartRecruiters entered an exciting new chapter as we joined SAP, the global leader in enterprise applications. Together, we’re accelerating our vision of reinventing hiring by bringing the power of SmartRecruiters’ AI
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