Design System Lead at Diageo

Job Summary

You will be working in a team building and maintaining reusable Figma components used by product designers to design products for Absa CIB’s various products and services. You will collaborate with the designers and developers on the team as they build components and patterns that will make the work of dozens of developers easier. The work you do will impact the experience of thousands of customers that visit our sites and apps each day.

You will also be collaborating with designers and engineers to design and evolve Absa CIB's design system.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

• Help lead the design and delivery of components to the Solar Design System.
• Interview and collaborate with Designers across other teams to help build the components they need to succeed.
• Identify emerging trends, and turn them into reusable patterns.
• Design and define interaction patterns through components, documentation, and prototypes.
• Ensure our Design System meets standards and guidelines for accessibility.
• Maintain our core principles in visual style, typography, spacing, motion, and interaction.
• Maintain and improve a Design System contribution model to streamline the process of multiple product teams building common and bespoke components.
• Work with developers to maintain and create new components for our library.
• Collaborate with designers across teams to curate new aesthetic and patterns.
• Collaborate to test as needed to ensure usability and consistency when implemented by Engineering.
• Mentor, and guide less experienced teammates.

Relationship management

• Build strong, inclusive, collaborative relationships with peers, including designers, product managers, developers, and cross-functional team members.
• Influence, challenge and support other designers within our product area to deliver high quality product experiences.
• Facilitate cross functional team workshops – to bring everyone together at key points in the process and around key decisions.
• Collaborate with the team to ensure proposed solutions balance user needs, business strategy and technical constraints.

Education and Experience Required

• National Diploma or Advanced Certificate in an appropriate discipline of equivalent NQF level 6 qualification.
• Minimum of 6 years of relevant professional experience, with 2+ years in building and maintaining design systems.
• Track record of delivering high quality projects with strong customer impact.
• Strong track record of crafting, launching, and maintaining design systems at scale.
• Experience conducting audience and usability research including benchmarking, heuristic reviews, surveys, analytics, stakeholder interviews and usability testing is to your advantage.
• Ability to communicate ideas through demonstration and prototyping, etc.

What you need

• Excellent typesetting, design and layout skills.
• Experience working within an Agile environment.
• Established working knowledge of standards and best practice for designing user interfaces and design systems for web and mobile applications.
• Working knowledge and practical experience using Figma.
• Knowledge of contemporary online patterns, interaction paradigms and core online experiences.
• A strong portfolio of digital design work demonstrating knowledge of typical online patterns and interaction paradigms.
• Practical familiarity with digital design principles and standards, with clear judgment/rationale for design direction. Must have multi-format, multi-screen awareness.
• Significant exposure to working and collaborating with UX and Front-end Development teams.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to articulate and formally present creative concepts and rationale to other team members and business stakeholders.

Education

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)