ABSA Career – Design System Lead

Job Description:

You will be working in a team building and maintaining reusable Figma components used by product designers to design products for Absa CIB’s various products and services. You will collaborate with the designers and developers on the team as they build components and patterns that will make the work of dozens of developers easier. The work you do will impact the experience of thousands of customers that visit our sites and apps each day.

Job Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the team to ensure proposed solutions balance user needs, business strategy and technical constraints.
• Ensure our Design System meets standards and guidelines for accessibility.
• Maintain and improve a Design System contribution model to streamline the process of multiple product teams building common and bespoke components.
• Identify emerging trends, and turn them into reusable patterns.
• Influence, challenge and support other designers within our product area to deliver high quality product experiences.
• Maintain our core principles in visual style, typography, spacing, motion, and interaction.
• Design and define interaction patterns through components, documentation, and prototypes.
• Interview and collaborate with Designers across other teams to help build the components they need to succeed.

Job Requirements:

• Excellent typesetting, design and layout skills.
• Knowledge of contemporary online patterns, interaction paradigms and core online experiences.
• Experience working within an Agile environment.
• Established working knowledge of standards and best practice for designing user interfaces and design systems for web and mobile applications.
• A strong portfolio of digital design work demonstrating knowledge of typical online patterns and interaction paradigms.
• Practical familiarity with digital design principles and standards, with clear judgment/rationale for design direction. Must have multi-format, multi-screen awareness.

Qualification & Experience:

• Experience conducting audience and usability research including benchmarking, heuristic reviews, surveys, analytics, stakeholder interviews and usability testing is to your advantage.
• Minimum of 6 years of relevant professional experience, with 2+ years in building and maintaining design systems.
• Strong track record of crafting, launching, and maintaining design systems at scale.
• National Diploma or Advanced Certificate in an appropriate discipline of equivalent NQF level 6 qualification.
• Track record of delivering high quality projects with strong customer impact.

Job Details:

Company: Absa Group Limited

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Functions: N/A

Job Location: Sandton, Gauteng, SA

Application Deadline: N/A

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