Associate Designer, Design System

<p><b>About this role</b></p><p></p><p></p><h1><span><b><span>Associate Designer, Design Systems</span></b></span></h1><p><span><b>Location:</b> Budapest, Hungary<br/><b>Team:</b> Design Systems</span></p><p><span><b><span>About the Role</span></b></span></p><p><span>We are looking for a talented <b>Associate Designer</b> to join our Design Systems team in Budapest. You will work closely with the VP Designer and the broader design systems group to support the execution and scaling of our design system. Your role will help raise design maturity, ensure consistency, and deliver high-quality UI components, documentation, and experiences across our brands.</span></p><p><span>This is a hands-on role, ideal for someone who enjoys both doing design work and helping ensure process, quality, and scale in design system output.</span></p><p><span><b><span>What You’ll Do</span></b></span></p><ul><li><p><span><b>Component Design &amp; Execution</b>: Build, maintain, and refine UI components, visual patterns, and design assets that form part of the design system.</span></p></li><li><p><span><b>Design System Support &amp; Scale</b>: Assist in system audits, reuse of components, creation of new patterns, versioning, and ensuring that designs scale smoothly across products/brands.</span></p></li><li><p><span><b>Documentation &amp; Guidelines</b>: Maintain and update style guides, usage guidelines, pattern libraries; help ensure documentation is up-to-date and useful for designers and engineers.</span></p></li><li><p><span><b>Design QA &amp; Consistency</b>: Participate in design reviews, provide feedback, catch inconsistencies, ensure adherence to accessibility and usability standards.</span></p></li><li><p><span><b>Collaboration &amp; Handoff</b>: Work tightly with engineers, product managers, and other designers to ensure your designs are implemented faithfully; help with prototyping, design-to-code handoffs, and aligning design and implementation.</span></p></li><li><p><span><b>Learning &amp; Tooling</b>: Grow your skills in design tooling (e.g. Figma), design tokens, component libraries, workflows, and best practices. Be proactive in suggesting improvements or efficiencies.</span></p></li></ul><p><span><b><span>Who You Are</span></b></span></p><ul><li><p><span>You have ~1-3 years of experience in UI/design, preferably with exposure to or interest in design systems.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Strong visual design skills: you care about typography, spacing, layout, polish. You enjoy detail and refine design until it’s clean and consistent.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Proficient with modern design tools (Figma ideally), comfortable building and using components, prototypes.</span></p></li><li><p><span>You understand, or are eager to learn, accessibility, usability, inclusive design, responsive design.</span></p></li><li><p><span>A good communicator: you can take feedback, present ideas, work with engineering and product teams to ensure designs are practical and well implemented.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Curious, organized, and enthusiastic about growing design system maturity, both in craft and in process.</span></p></li></ul><h3><span><b><span>Why Join Us?</span></b></span></h3><ul><li><p><span>You’ll be part of a team that is central to how our brands deliver digital experiences — your work will directly impact consistency, speed of design delivery, and overall quality.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Opportunity to learn from senior system designers and grow your craft in component design, system governance, design tokens, documentation.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Be part of building and scaling design outputs across multiple product lines / platforms, gaining broad exposure.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Work in Budapest in a design team that values quality, feedback, and continuous improvement.</span></p></li></ul><h3><span><b><span> </span></b></span></h3><h3><span><b><span>Our hybrid work model</span></b></span></h3><p><span>BlackRock’s current hybrid work model is designed to enable in-person connections and collaboration that is core to our culture, while supporting increased flexibility for all employees. In line with local health guidance and regulations, employees are required to work at least 4 days in the office each week, with the flexibility to work from home up to 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. The health, safety and well-being of our people will always be our top priorities; we will continue to monitor local conditions and health advisories in making decisions about our work environments.</span></p><h3><span><b><span>About BlackRock</span></b></span></h3><p><span>At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their inve