Aumni - Product Designer -Senior Associate

At Aumni, our customer-facing design system is becoming increasingly complex, particularly as we grow the size of our team, expand the capabilities of the product, and meet more and more customer needs. We are looking for a Product Designer to work with Engineering to improve our existing components, expand the component library, and make the experience consistent for all customers.

Job Summary:

As a Design System Product Designer in Aumni, you will explore, propose, deliver, and evangelize design system standards, patterns, and components. You must have a passion for creating shared design languages and encouraging visual consistency across products, channels, and teams. The ideal candidate will be experienced in creating, managing, and improving design systems (specifically in Figma).

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead efforts to explore, propose, and document design system improvements, ensuring all Figma components, variants, and variables have code counterparts.

• Act as the bridge between Design and Engineering by gathering and documenting requirements that inform design system prioritization and execution.

• Evolve design system components and patterns in ways that address the cumulative needs of customer-focused squads, thereby enabling others to focus on solving customer problems.

• Evangelize proper use of the design system across the Technology department.

• Clearly and convincingly convey and articulate design decisions to the Head of Design, other Product Designers, and members of your squad.

• Produce high-quality visuals that are consistent with best practice, aesthetics, and the Aumni brand.

• Give quality-increasing feedback to other designers during formal and informal design critique sessions.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• 4+ years of Product/UX Design experience.

• Professional product design experience—specifically in web application design systems—demonstrated via a portfolio or something similar.

• Considerable knowledge of design best practice and aesthetics.

• Expert-level skillset with Figma and considerable experience creating, maintaining, and evolving design systems.

• Expert-level verbal and written communication skills, particularly when conveying design rationale and encouraging consistency between design patterns and the written code.

• Solid understanding of and experience with frontend web development standards and practices including WCAG, code variables, syncing tokens between design and code, and other modern capabilities.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Experience designing Fintech products.

• Familiarity with the private market / venture capital industry.