Contract Digital Product Designer (Design Systems)

Location: Remote UK / EU / PT

Department: Product Design

Contract Role

About YLD:

Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract, inspire, develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London, Lisbon, Porto.

About the role:

We’re looking for a very seasoned and experienced hands on Digital Product Designer with proven Design Systems skills and good UX knowledge to join our Product Design team on a contract basis.

In this role, you will be working alongside a cross functional team of designers and engineers to help shape a new scalable Design System that will amaze end-users and lead our clients to success, so make sure you arrive ready to have an impact.

About you:

We know that everyone can’t be good at everything, but we expect that you have a solid background in Digital Product Design, with a strong expertise in Design System and that you are comfortably familiar with a combination of specialisms.

You’ll have the following skills and experience:

Experience in UX Design, Product Strategy, UI / Interaction Design;
Significant experience in Design Systems and UI design;
Are confident with creating UI components independently to craft a reusable design systems.
Experience working with Zeroheight / Supernova (or similar) and Storybook very welcome;
Experience with animation and incorporating it into UI is very much welcomed;
Experience working with, or good knowledge of implementing web accessibility would also be a big bonus;
Coding skills / ability would be a benefit, but is in no way essential;
Know your way very well around Figma, incl. Tokens and Theming;

You should:

Be happy to collaborate with both more senior and junior people to establish a solid design principles and a sophisticated design language;
Enjoy transforming complex concepts into simple and easy-to-use experiences;
Happily participate in all aspects of product design: Research, Sketching, Wireframing, UI Design, Prototyping, User Testing etc;
Love working with other experienced designers and learning from them as well as sharing your own knowledge;
Love working alongside front-end developers and being a part of a cross-functional team;
Believe that product, design and engineering are closely connected and work best when collaborating together;
Care about accessibility and creating products that are inclusive to all people;
Be very hands-on;
Feel comfortable with moving at a fast pace with your team;
Believe that learning and self-development never end;
Want to bring your drive, passion and experience to our work and processes;
Be comfortable working either in a remote environment, or surrounded by your colleagues in the office.
Have great stakeholder management skills and be able to help, guide and support the client to success.

What we’d like to see from you:

A portfolio (pdf, presentation or website) demonstrating critical thinking, creativity, visual design and Design System experience;
CV outlining any professional experience and creative training/education, incl. any kind of official UX / UI training that you may have;
All written documents must be sent in English.

What you’ll get in return:

The chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people and to develop and grow your skills in a fast-moving business.

Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:

1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
Interview & Portfolio Review with Head of Product Design and one Senior Designer (~1h30)
Successful candidates only; Call with Client Partner of the Project (15-30 min)

We live and breathe our values, and know you will too:

Growing every day
Including everyone
Relationships built on honesty and ethics
Inspiring solutions
Winning together

We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We don’t discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability status. We also believe in work-life balance and offer flexible working around our core hours.