Product Designer (Design Systems)
ABS LLC
11 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Intermediate Compensation
$ 160KJob location
Remote
Tech stack
CSS
Software Documentation
Computer Programming
React
Material Design
Figma
Front End Software Development
Job description
- Abs is building its first dedicated design team and we're looking for a Designer to own our design system from the ground up. This is a foundational role: you'll define how product interfaces are built across our fintech products, partnering closely with engineering to ensure the system is implemented cleanly in code and embedded into real workflows
- Your primary user is the product team itself, designers and engineers who depend on a well-documented, consistent, and scalable system to ship good work. You'll do UI work, but in service of the system: validating components against real product surfaces, identifying gaps, and ensuring what's in Figma matches what ships in production
- Own the Tabs design system end-to-end: components, patterns, tokens, and documentation
- Lead token strategy: semantic structure, theming, density, and extensibility across products
- Work closely with frontend engineers to ensure components are implemented accurately and the system is integrated into real development workflows
- Audit existing product UI to identify inconsistencies and systematise solutions rather than one-off fixes
- Define and maintain documentation standards so the system is usable without hand-holding
- Validate components against real product contexts, identifying gaps and edge cases before they become production problems
- Contribute to accessibility standards and encode them into the system itself, not just guidelines
- Establish a contribution model so engineers and future designers can add to the system without breaking it
Requirements
- Familiarity with frontend technologies, comfortable reading component code, understanding implementation constraints, and reviewing work in Storybook or equivalent
- 4+ years as a Product or UI Designer with demonstrable design systems experience
- Strong token pipeline experience: CSS variables, semantic token architectures, and tooling like Tokens Studio
- Deep Figma expertise, components, variants, auto-layout, and library management at scale
- Portfolio that shows systems thinking: component libraries, token structures, documentation, or contribution frameworks. Not just polished screens
- Strong design fundamentals: visual hierarchy, interaction patterns, responsive systems, and information density
- Hands-on experience building or significantly evolving a design system, not just consuming one
- Able to work with engineers as a peer, discussing implementation tradeoffs rather than just handing over specs
- Experience in B2B SaaS or data-heavy products where UI complexity is high
- Coding experience, HTML/CSS, familiarity with React component libraries, or beyond
- Exposure to fintech or accounting tools
Benefits & conditions
- Unlimited PTO: You decide when and how long to take time off
- Fully paid health insurance: Fully paid medical, dntal, and vision insurance
- Complimentary meals: Free lunch and dinner in the office
- Parental leave: Generous paid leave to new parents
- Commuter benefits: Tax-free commuter benefits
- Regular team events: We work hard and play hard