Staff Product Designer (Visual)

Joining Collibra’s Design System Team

As a Staff Product Designer with a focus on visual design, you’ll be joining a growing product organization working on Arbor, Collibra’s Design System. You will help the team ensure that Arbor is meeting the needs of designers, engineers, and ultimately end users. One of our goals is to provide a delightful user experience balancing form and function through visual language, intuitive interactions, and clear content hierarchy.

The design system team aims to help our internal teams and our customers in many ways like:

1. Designing a cohesive, delightful, and intuitive user experience
2. Building and maintaining design kits and forming best practice guidelines so that product designers can spend more time designing the best user journey and less time executing visual design and interactions
3. Developing and maintaining a front-end architecture that increases product development efficiency through quality code, accessibility enablement, and responsiveness 

Reporting to the design system team’s senior manager, you will help educate and collaborate with the product and engineering organization in helping them adopt and utilize Arbor. A successful implementation of Collibra’s design system means that we can:

• Increase customer happiness through faster innovation and faster time to value
• Enable an accessible, responsive experience for users
• Provide ready-to-use design assets and components for designers and engineers

As a Staff Product Designer (Visual) on the design system team you are responsible for:

• Working directly with our cross-functional teams to have creative autonomy & impact across the product while shaping the strategy and vision of the design system
• Influencing and shaping the way visual design is part of the larger product development process while utilizing lean UX practices to deliver high-quality experiences
• Continuing the growth and adoption of the design system as it grows and matures
• Ensuring our design system meets—and exceeds—accessibility requirements by working with product teams to ensure inclusive design and striving for accessibility compliance
• Articulating and validating decisions through collaboration, research, and testing, to ensure the design system provides value to our users

You have: 

• A portfolio that demonstrates strong user experience and interaction design informed by empathy for the use
• Experience building and maintaining component libraries in Sketch or Figma (we use Figma at Collibra)
• A proven history of working within a user-centered design process collaborating with designers, product managers, engineers, researchers, and writers
• The ability to mentor people around you in an effort to grow the team and learn. Our team moves fast, works in an Agile environment, and there's always something to learn
• Strong background working with a SaaS/Cloud product company
  
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

You are:

• Experienced balancing user needs, company strategy, and technical constraints when making decisions
• Able to collaborate, inform, and compromise with stakeholders at all levels of the company
• Emotionally intelligent; ability to think beyond the digital screen and design for human emotions and interactions in the real world
• Passionate about modular design, systems, accessibility, and technology
• Humble and able to freely discuss your own strengths and weaknesses (and those of others), but always in a kind, professional, and appropriate way
• Detail oriented and have the ability to get to the root of the problem with a customer-centric lens
• Outcome oriented with a focus on the big picture of improving the system each time you respond to a problem, rather than just resolving the specific issue
• Able to lead, coach, and educate about design across departments
• Able to communicate design proposals and principles with for implementation, and gain senior stakeholder agreement

Measures of success: 

Reporting to Collibra’s Senior Manager, Design System, measures of success are:

• Month 1: Deep dive into onboarding, understanding our product, and getting to know the team
• Month 2: Understand major design system team priorities and being to influence the product design process within the organization
• Month 3: Proficient in component and documentation creation and are actively iterating on focused areas of improvement for the team

Compensation for this role

The standard rate for this position is $176,400 - $243,000 per year. This position is