Senior Product Designer

Senior Product Designer - Design Systems

About Unily

Unily partners with the world's largest and most complex enterprises to power Organizational Velocity through digital Employee Experience transformation. Iconic brands, including Estée Lauder Companies, CVS Health, and British Airways, use Unily's market-leading Employee Experience platform to improve productivity, streamline communication, and foster a highly connected workplace.

Unily is the only triple leader recognized by all three of the major analysts. Unily is recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Intranet Packaged Solutions, the 2024 Forrester Wave: Intranet Platforms, and the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Experience-Centric Intelligent Digital Workspaces 2024. With these accolades, we continue to grow and expand our employee community with people who are passionate about joining us on this exciting journey.

Job Purpose

As we continue to expand our market share in the rapidly emerging Employee Experience platform category, we're looking for a Senior Product Designer to lead the evolution of our Design System. This role is pivotal in ensuring design consistency, scalability, and accessibility across our product suite. You'll collaborate closely with our UI development team to design, govern, and maintain a robust component library and design standards.

Reporting to the Head of Design, you'll join a growing team of designers and play a foundational role in shaping our design culture. We're looking for someone with deep experience in design systems, ideally within B2B SaaS and multi-brand environments. You should be equally comfortable collaborating with product teams to solve real user problems.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead the design, maintenance, evolution and advocacy of our design system to support both internal teams and client-facing needs.
• Define and maintain semantic and functional tokens for the design system
• Develop and continually update comprehensive documentation, guidelines, and best practices to ensure consistency and scalability across products.
• Craft accessible, inclusive, responsive components, patterns and layouts that meet WCAG and usability standards.
• Champion accessibility across the organisation and with clients, embedding inclusive design into our culture.
• Educating teams on the benefits of design systems plus leading workshops and discussions advocating for broad adoption.
• Owning the tracking and reporting of key KPIs in relation to the design system.
• Apply behavioural design principles to create intuitive, engaging experiences that account for cognitive biases and heuristics.
• Ensure consistency and usability across omni-channel experiences and platforms.

Requirements

• Proven experience designing and maintaining scalable design systems in large, complex organizations, preferably in multi-brand environments.
• Deep understanding of accessibility standards and best practices, with a track record of designing inclusive interfaces.
• Strong documentation skills with the ability to clearly articulate design rationale and system guidelines.
• Ability to translate complex requirements into elegant, user-friendly solutions.
• Exceptional interface design skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to align diverse stakeholders around user needs.
• Proficiency in Figma, FigJam, and user testing tools such as Maze (or equivalents).
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and the software development lifecycle.
• Experience working with global enterprises.
• Experience designing for right to left languages
• Background in B2B software, B2C experience is a plus.
• Experience conducting user research and discovery activities.

Why Work For Unily?

In addition to a generous base salary and discretionary company bonus, here are some things we think you will love:

Our awesome team culture.We are focused on achieving results as a team and having fun while we do it. You won't find a friendlier or more dedicated bunch of people.

Our industry leading product.We are very proud of our ever-evolving product, naturally we use (and love) it internally and provide the tools and resources for you (and our clients) to become a Unily expert.

The flexibility that we offer.We don't just mean working from home occasionally. We operate on a hybrid basis, and also recognize that life happens during the 9-5.30 and encourage a sustainable work/life balance.

Our bright and modern office spaces.When you need to be in the office we want it to be like being at home. We have a well-stocked kitchen, ample parking and the option to bring your dog to work.

We offer a fantastic suite of benefits.Including 25 days holiday plus an extra paid day off to enjoy your birthday , Vitality life cover (for health, sight, hearing and dental), Aviva pension, life assurance, income protection, and so many more.

Our commitment to sustainability and giving back to the community.We know working for an organisation that takes its environmental & social impact seriously is important, and we are proud to offer 1 fully paid volunteering day per year, an employee matching charity donation scheme and options to lease an Electric Vehicle through our salary sacrifice scheme.

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