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Design System Specialist

Salt

Doha, Doha Municipality, Qatar · Contract

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Posted
3 days ago
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Open to candidates proficient in Arabic and experienced in design system development and governance. The role is suitable for professionals with a background in UX/UI design and front-end development focused on scalable digital product design systems.
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Job description

About the Role

We are seeking a Design System Specialist to join a top-tier digital experience and innovation team based in Doha, Qatar. This position involves a 12-month contract with potential extensions and requires proficiency in Arabic. The successful candidate will take charge of developing and scaling a comprehensive design system used across various digital products and transformation projects.

This role is perfect for a professional who combines expertise in UX/UI design with front-end development skills, focusing on creating a robust and scalable design system beyond just a visual component library in Figma.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, maintain, and govern an all-encompassing design system, including foundations, patterns, components, documentation, and best practice usage guidelines.
  • Develop and manage scalable Figma libraries and reusable design components.
  • Define and uphold design tokens related to color, typography, spacing, themes, and other essential properties.
  • Create and oversee an automated pipeline for design tokens bridging the design and development environments.
  • Collaborate closely with front-end developers to build and maintain coded component libraries using tools like Storybook.
  • Ensure strong alignment and traceability between Figma components and their production counterparts.
  • Establish contribution workflows, version control, release management, and governance strategies for the design system.
  • Integrate accessibility, responsiveness, and quality assurance measures throughout component development.
  • Identify and implement automation opportunities to enhance the design-to-development workflow.
  • Advocate for and support the adoption of the design system across various teams and initiatives.
  • Continuously refine the system to enhance scalability, consistency, and delivery efficiency.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will have practical experience in creating, scaling, or managing enterprise-level design systems. They should be adept at both the design and development aspects of design systems, skilled in various tools and methodologies including:

  • Figma
  • Design system architecture and governance
  • Component libraries and design tokens
  • Storybook and coded component libraries
  • Design-to-code workflows
  • Accessibility and responsive design
  • Versioning, documentation, and process creation

The role demands an understanding of collaboration between designers and developers to ensure designs are accurately realized in production. Experience with automated design-token pipelines and working hands-on with development teams is highly desirable.

Additional Information

  • Location: Doha, Qatar
  • Contract duration: 12 months with possible extensions
  • Language requirement: Arabic speakers preferred
  • Employment type: Contract, onsite

Tools & software

Figma required Storybook required

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