Designer - Design Systems

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We create applications which drive one of the world’s most trafficked websites. We play an active role helping our client connect their consumers globally through mobile, digital, and in-store experiences.

The Designer specializes in Design Systems, collaborating with creative and technical teams to develop elegant, cohesive visual designs for websites, marketing, event emails, and select non‑interactive elements. This hands‑on role balances creativity and logic, ensuring a holistic approach across typography, iconography, motion, and interface design.

The ideal candidate has strong communication and presentation skills and contributes to positive collaboration with multi‑disciplinary team members; a strong understanding of branding principles, style guides, and product design; an elegant design aesthetic, with exceptional attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the creation of holistic, elegant design systems with a high degree of polish and attention to detail.
• Audit current implementations and identify potential areas for simplification and improved consistency.
• Design with flexibility in mind, ensuring designs are accessible and adaptive to varying workflows, viewports, technologies, and locales.
• Stress test designs across all possible variations and refine as needed.
• Create prototypes to convey states, transitions, and / or behaviors.
• Prepare design files for final documentation.
• Ensure layout, typography, and specs are pixel perfect.
• Communicate flexibilities and / or limitations to both designers and development, as needed.
• Work closely with the Senior Art Director to understand design direction and help inform priorities.
• Collaborate with Art Directors and larger project teams to explore and iterate on design options.
• Consult with technical disciplines to ensure designs work within given limitations, and files are prepared with all necessary information to support the design intent.
• Promote thoughtful and purposeful design, rather than an enforcement of rules.
• Help define and / or improve how teams collaborate and leverage existing tools.
• Determine the best medium and optimize design files for creative review – be it print, onscreen visuals, prototype, or code.
• Create presentation flows that establish and build on a foundation of design rationale.

Qualifications

What We Offer

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer.

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