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Product Designer, Design Systems
Mozilla
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Product Designer, Design Systems (Contract)
The Role
As a product designer on the websites team, you’ll contribute to building a design system for our website properties, specifically www.mozilla.org. The work will involve building UI components and design patterns for the team, including typography, color, iconography, etc. You’ll work closely with front-end developers to build a living style guide and pattern library as well as a shared library of design components for Sketch.
You are:
• A smart and passionate product designer who asks questions, utilizes data and research, and creates user-centered experiences.
• You work on a macro and a micro level, making decisions that support both the system and the individual component.
• You are well versed in both UX and UI and are able to contribute on both levels.
• You have experience designing and shipping consumer facing digital products.
• You’re passionate about how things work and interact, and about creating a visually cohesive and well-designedd experience.
• You take initiative when you identify a problem.
You will:
• Work closely with the design lead to help identify key priorities and opportunities for the design system.
• Create wire-frames and build prototypes to illustrate concepts and work closely with developers to build out an interaction framework.
• Help to expand the current UI system. Use the system to design new sections of the website.
• Think systemically and help create a pain free and seamless experience for the user.
• Iterate quickly and provide options to external partners.
• Advocate for the importance of user centered design and consumer quality experiences on the team and within the greater organization.
Your Professional Profile:
• Passion to design excellent products for humans
• +5 years of professional experience in digital design, with a focus on design systems and frameworks
• Strong portfolio of interaction design and visual design
• Ability to rapidly conceive, visualize and iterate design solutions in a shared environment
• Excellent communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Experience Design, Interaction Design or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Experience designing and shipping digital consumer facing products and interaction systems
Pluses:
• Experience designing for diverse audiences of people (international audiences, multi-language localization, accessibility for people with disabilities, etc.)
• Deep understanding of user research
• Experience with creating digital design systems
• Experience working on a distributed team
• Experience with front-end programming
• Strong visual design skills:
◦ Type, color, layout, hierarchy
◦ Iconography and illustration
About Mozilla
Mozilla exists to build the Internet as a public resource accessible to all because we believe that open and free is better than closed and controlled. Join us and become part of our mission to promote openness, innovation and opportunity online.
Mozilla is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity throughout our recruiting and hiring process and is dedicated to increasing diversity in our workplace.
To Apply
Please send your resume, website, and/or portfolio to Liza Ruzer at lruzer@mozilla.com with the subject line: “Product Designer, Design Systems: First Name + Last Name + Location”.