Design Technologist (Designer)
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Job Description
Role Overview
A Design Technologist in a design systems unit serves as a bridge between designers and developers supporting both to build consistent high-quality digital products across the organization. Design system engineer acts as a workflow integrator ensuring cohesion between design and engineering.
Ideal for someone who can take design ideas from prototypes through to production-ready code.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with designers to translate high-fidelity UI designs into interactive coded UI components.
- Build and maintain design-system components (React VUE Angular) ensuring design consistency across products.
- Develop accessible performant responsive interfaces (WCAG standards internationalization).
- Document design patterns assist in creating/maintaining the style guide and code library.
- Document Design System components in Storybook.
- Work within agile methodologies participate in Agile ceremonies across Tribes.
- Collaborate closely with front-end engineers to refine component define and integrate design tokens and APIs.
Requirements
Requirements & Skills
Technical Skills:
- HTML5 CSS3 (SASS/LESS) JavaScript (ES6) solid foundation
- Familiarity with at least one modern UI framework or library (React/VUE/Angular)
- Build/design tooling: Storybook STYLEGUIDIST Figma to code plugins Babel Web pack
- Understanding of component architecture: THEMING tokens props API
- Accessibility (WCAG 2.0/2.1) responsive design mobile-first
- Version control (GitHub)
- Agile/scrum experience
Design & UX Skills:
- Proficient in Figma
- Strong sense of interaction visual and motion design with attention to detail
- UX fundamentals: user flows accessibility inclusive design
- Familiarity with ISO usability standards (ISO 9241) a plus
Soft Skills
- Excellent communication & cross-functional teamwork abilities
- Problem-solving mindset and attention to detail
- Analytical mindset: use data & feedback to iterate
- Self-starter proactive in system improvements
Experience & Qualifications
- 2 5 years in front-end product design UX engineering or similar
- Experience working on or contributing to a design system
- Bachelor s degree in HCI interaction design computer science or related field preferred
HTML5, CSS3 (SASS/LESS), JavaScript (ES6+) solid foundation Familiarity with at least one modern UI framework or library (React/Vue/Angular) Build/design tooling: Storybook, Styleguidist, Figma to code plugins, Babel, Webpack
Education
2 5 years in front-end, product design, UX engineering or similar Bachelor s degree in HCI, interaction design, computer science, or related field preferred
Employment Type
Full Time
