Front End Designer

Role Overview

A Design Technologist in a design systems unit serves as a bridge between designers and developers—supporting both to build consistent, high-quality digital products across the organization. Design system engineer acts as a workflow integrator, ensuring cohesion between design and engineering.

Ideal for someone who can take design ideas from prototypes through to production-ready code.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with designers to translate high-fidelity UI designs into interactive, coded UI components.
• Build and maintain design-system components (React, VUE, Angular) ensuring design consistency across products.
• Develop accessible, performant, responsive interfaces (WCAG standards, internationalization).
• Document design patterns, assist in creating/maintaining the style guide and code library.
• Document Design System components in Storybook.
• Work within agile methodologies, participate in Agile ceremonies across Tribes.
• Collaborate closely with front-end engineers to refine component, define and integrate design tokens and APIs.
  
  

• HTML5, CSS3 (SASS/LESS), JavaScript (ES6+) – solid foundation
• Familiarity with at least one modern UI framework or library (React/VUE/Angular)
• Build/design tooling: Storybook, STYLEGUIDIST, Figma‑to‑code plugins, Babel, Web pack
• Understanding of component architecture: THEMING, tokens, props API
• Accessibility (WCAG 2.0/2.1), responsive design, mobile-first
• Version control (GitHub)
• Agile/scrum experience
  
  

• Proficient in Figma
• Strong sense of interaction, visual, and motion design with attention to detail
• UX fundamentals: user flows, accessibility, inclusive design
• Familiarity with ISO usability standards (ISO 9241) a plus
  
  

• Excellent communication & cross-functional teamwork abilities
• Problem-solving mindset and attention to detail
• Analytical mindset: use data & feedback to iterate
• Self-starter, proactive in system improvements
  
  

• 2–5 years in front-end, product design, UX engineering or similar
• Experience working on or contributing to a design system
• Bachelor’s degree in HCI, interaction design, computer science, or related field preferred