Temp Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

About the Temp Senior Product Designer, Design Systems at Headspace:

About Product Design at Headspace:

We’re a small team of Product Designers at Headspace that are incredibly passionate and ambitious about improving the health and happiness of the world, and with more than 42 million users in over 190 countries, we’re well on our way. Creative excellence is core to Headspace, and we believe in the power of design to positively influence the way people interact with themselves and the world around them. You’ll have the chance to solve complex design and product problems working on cross-functional teams with other designers, researchers, content producers, product managers, engineers, customer experience specialists, and more. At Headspace, designers don’t work in solitude.

About the Temp Senior Product Designer, Design Systems role:

You will help the Product Design team meet customers' high expectations for quality and familiarity by developing and applying system interface elements, icons, text styles, and uniform terminology to innovative new features; work across product teams to identify emerging trends, and turn them into reusable patterns; develop and maintain a pattern library and documentation; and advocate for UI standards and accessibility with designers, engineers, and stakeholders. This is an opportunity to elevate our complete system to an exceptional standard of craft. The Design System, and all components thereof, are the sole focus of this role.

This is a 3 month temporary position with the potential for a perm position, pending business need.

What you will do:

• Work day-to-day in a cross-functional team of engineers, product designers, brand designers, content producers, and product managers to build and maintain an end-to-end design system for Headspace’s surfaces and formats (iOS, Android, desktop, and responsive web)
• Identify opportunities to improve our existing design system
• Partner with product designers and brand designers to develop new formats and explore their potential for creative expression
• Design workflows and internal tooling for keeping product assets and designs versioned and updated in regards to content, brand, and product efforts for PR and internal archive purposes
• Guide the evolution of our design system(s), including the visual language and user experience of our component libraries and the tooling our design team uses every day
• Specify and maintain core principles in visual style, typography, spacing, motion, and interaction models
• Design and deploy interaction patterns through components, documentation, and prototypes
• Work with front-end developers to create new and maintain existing components that meet and exceed accessibility standards
• Continually seek to understand the capabilities and technical constraints of the systems with which you’ll be developing and working
• Enforce consistency and coherence across our design system
• Work with Design, PM, User Research, and Engineering peers to define the strategy, prioritize the design system roadmap, and ensure that all projects are well defined and high impact
• Connect the dots across experiences and teams to create a cohesive design system and customer experience
• Communicate and align with stakeholders, to keep them informed on the design system team’s progress and goals

What you will bring:

Required Skills:

• 7+ years of relevant design experience, including experience creating design systems
• Advanced Figma, particularly creating easy-to-use shared libraries for the larger design team
• Passionate about building inclusive design practices and love educating and mentoring others
• Well versed in visual and user experience design
• Strong understanding of how web and mobile applications work
• Expert knowledge of platform-specific interface patterns and behaviors
• Understanding of information architecture
• Experience developing great software
• You are accustomed to working in a collaborative cross-disciplinary environment, where experimentation and testing are valued
• You are intimately familiar with the capabilities and constraints of several of today’s and tomorrow’s digital devices and platforms

Preferred Skills:

• Technically-minded, interested in and understand code as the material digital products are made of
• Both agency and in-house experience
• Healthcare, health benefits, mental health, or wellness industry experience
• BA in interaction design, graphic design, product design, or visual design

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