Senior Design System Designer
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OverviewIn this role, you will shape and scale our design system across Real Estate products, enabling consistent, high-quality experiences for multiple tribes. You’ll work in a small pod while contributing to a broader system used by design and engineering teams. You’ll balance coherence with local needs and embrace AI-assisted workflows to speed up delivery. This is a chance to influence how products are built and experienced across OLX brands, at scale.ResponsabilidadesDesign and evolve reusable components, patterns and foundations within the design system to improve consistency across tribesDefine component behavior, states and variants and collaborate with engineers to ship themImprove the contribution model so designers outside the core pod can propose and ship components without breaking coherenceSupport design work from problem framing through documentation and handover using team feedbackCreate clear documentation and specifications for variants and edge casesCollaborate with engineers on token strategy and the link between Figma and production codeResolve conflicts between a tribes local needs and system coherenceWork with product design teams to embed stronger systems thinking across productsAI-enabled Design Systems: leverage AI tooling in research, prototyping and component definitionContribute to structuring the system for AI-assisted workflows, including tokens and reusable patternsKnow when to override AI output with design judgment and explain whyRequisitos principales Proven experience designing and maintaining a design system at scaleExperience running or contributing to a contribution modelStrong technical fluency to translate design decisions into code and work with engineers as a peerSharp judgment on trade-offs between consistency and exceptionsStrong communication skills to justify decisions and onboard other designersComfort with AI-assisted tools and applying them to improve speed, quality and consistencyPortfolio demonstrating product and systems thinking with shipped impactExperience with Figma including component libraries, variables and tokensExperience collaborating with engineers to deliver scalable outcomesInterest or experience in AI-assisted design or development workflowsStrong communicator and stakeholder managementCollaborative mindset and ability to bring others alongCuriosity about systems thinking and AI-enabled workflowsDesign systems at scaleFigma, component libraries, variables and tokensToken strategy
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Requisitos principales Proven experience designing and maintaining a design system at scale Experience running or contributing to a contribution model Strong technical fluency to translate design decisions into code and work with engineers as a peer Sharp judgment on trade-offs between consistency and exceptions Strong communication skills to justify decisions and onboard other designers Comfort with AI-assisted tools and applying them to improve speed, quality and consistency Portfolio demonstrating product and systems thinking with shipped impact Experience with Figma including component libraries, variables and tokens Experience collaborating with engineers to deliver scalable outcomes Interest or experience in AI-assisted design or development workflows Strong communicator and stakeholder management Collaborative mindset and ability to bring others along Curiosity about systems thinking and AI-enabled workflows Design systems at scale Figma, component libraries, variables and tokens Token strategy
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