Senior Product Designer, Design System (DEPOT)

Trainline is an innovative, tech business with a mission to bring together the world’s rail, coach and other travel services into one simple experience. We aim to make travel easier and more accessible, encouraging people to make more environmentally sustainable travel choices. We’re hugely proud to be the world’s leading independent rail and coach travel platform and rank among the highest-rated travel and ticketing apps globally. Today, we offer our customers travel to thousands of destinations in and across 45 countries in Europe and beyond. That’s more than £3.7 billion in ticket sales annually, and over 90 million visits to our apps and websites each month. In another major milestone, Trainline listed on the London Stock Exchange in June 2019 and is now part of the FTSE 250.

Our culture is central to our success. We’re driven to sustain our phenomenal growth from recent years, and this means we’re always working closely and collaboratively to turn our ideas into reality. It’s this sense of pace, innovating and improving pretty much everything we do, that makes Trainline so exciting and unique - we truly believe our work has a genuine impact and will change travel for the better.

You may have seen our new SplitSave feature launched last year that finds smart combinations of multiple train tickets to ‘split’ customers’ journeys, giving huge savings without disrupting their travel plans. Similarly, this was the birthplace of BusyBot, an app extension we invented that uses crowdsourcing data to provide travellers with real-time information about the train they’re on to guide them to a seat. Here, we pushed from ideation to release within a week…and that’s where you come in.

To support our ambitious commercial goals, we’re expanding our world-class Product division to drive the next stage of our development. In this role, you’ll be working in our newly formed Platform team alongside Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists and Engineers to help build key foundational pieces of technology, systems and a Product & Tech culture that will power Trainline’s success across all the geographies in the coming years.

As a Senior Product Designer in this role you will take ownership of Trainline’s nascent design system (DEPOT) and work closely with your UX and engineering partners to build a best-in-class component framework that will play a key role in raising our UX bar across all products. You’ll establish ownership and governance models for pattern and component libraries to ensure branding and UI consistency at scale, and you’ll make designing at Trainline more efficient and more enjoyable!

The role will also sit within the ever expanding UX team and therefore will expose you to the fantastic creative culture and rituals that come with it. Whilst scaling our design system will be your core focus, you will have the opportunity to influence other key strategic areas including future ticketing, European expansion and our Sustainability efforts.

- You will be able to clearly demonstrable where you’ve been hands on evolving other design systems and component libraries in previous roles.

- You will have deep experience with Figma.

- Strong experience designing and shipping impactful experiences inclusive of design, strategy, and systems.

- Strong attention to detail from all aspects of UI to file and systems management.

- You will be able to talk passionately about the highs and lows of cross-functional collaboration in previous roles and where you feel your strengths lie

- Championing Trainline's Design System (DEPOT), building understanding and support for it within all relevant divisions of Trainline.

- Developing a cohesive strategy of how to evolve DEPOT so that becomes the preferred way to build products at Trainline.

- Developing a tight collaborative working relationship with dev partners so that they adopt and grow DEPOT in unison.

- Play a key role in developing and championing a contribution model with other designers in the UX team.

This is a truly career defining role for someone passionate about product design systems looking for an opportunity to disrupt and refine a product that will change the way people travel impacting millions of people every day.

- 25 days holiday +2 extra days at Christmas

- Free private medical and dental insurance for you and your family (you just pay the tax on what you choose!)

- Life assurance & income protection

- Good pension scheme

- Season Ticket loan

- Charity leave

- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

- Free breakfast everyday and fruit galore!

- Yoga Mondays

- Salsa classes

- Board Game nights

 ....and many more