Senior Product Designer - Design System

TheFork, a TripAdvisor® Company is the leading online restaurants reservation platform in Europe, Australia, with a network of more than 60.000 restaurants worldwide, more than 30,5 million monthly visits and present in 15+ countries around the globe.

Basically, TheFork connects restaurants and diners:

• Through TheFork (website and application), as well as through TripAdvisor, users can easily select a restaurant according to preference criteria (such as the localisation, type of cuisine, restaurant type and average price), consult user reviews, check real-time availability and instantly book online.

• From the restaurants side, TheFork provides them with a software solution, TheFork Manager, which enables restaurants to optimize reservations management, streamline operations and ultimately improve service and revenues.

TheFork team aims to inspire and enable people to confidently discover, experience and share food. We operate under a shared set of values that define how we do business and how we interact with our colleagues, our partners, our customers and our food community. We strongly believe that building a diverse workforce of people from all walks of life helps us have a richer, more vibrant, more successful workplace.

About the mission:

Team Mission:

You will be part of a new team with the mission of implementing from scratch a design system across all our platforms (web, iOS, Android). As a member of this team, you will be responsible for creating UI libraries that will be our first step in order to give a fresher look and feel to all our applications. You will have a direct impact on the designers' and devs' experience.

Main Responsibilities:

• Participate with the design system product manager and engineers in the creation of a best-in-class design system.

• Become an authority on TheFork design language, and settings best practices for the design system.

• Contribute to the design system documentation, training material, and onboarding.

• Evangelize the design system adoption inside TheFork.

• Support decisions with deliverable (UX Scorecards, competitive evaluations, user flows, and other user research methodologies) to iterate on and refine the design system.

• Understand the different approaches to user research and actively stay informed about new techniques and the pros and cons behind them.

• Create a coherent and well-designed set of UX, in order to improve the interface and experience at TheFork.

Requirements:

• Roughly 4 to 8+ years experience working as Product Designer.

• Have some experience or a big intereset in working with design system.

• Proficiency with Figma.

• Comfortable working in an international global context and proficient in English

• Communication: you effectively interact with others to build relationships, influence, and facilitate the sharing of ideas and information. You use tact and diplomacy to navigate difficult situations

• Learning Mindset: you continuously seek opportunities to learn, question the applicability of past approaches in the current environment

• Inclusive: at TheFork, diversity is a priority.  We also want to make our product available for everyone. We strongly belive that designing for inclusivity first, will make our product better for everyone.

• Results-oriented: you have the ability and willingness to make continuous improvements. Also the commitment to help make positive leaps in results and overall performance

• Teamwork & Collaboration: you value diverse perspectives and working with others as a way to achieve the best output possible

About the benefits:

• Technical challenges due to high traffic & ever-evolving business

• Sustainable pace, allowing to deliver quality work

• 25% time to take a look back & focus on quality, or look ahead & build plans for the future

• Share & learn with other skilled developers during guilds events

• Profitable business with expansion perspectives & new models to explore

• Career & mobilities opportunities thanks to our growth & international offices 

• Opportunity to push your own projects for the company

• Work/life balance attention

• Very comfortable workplaces that pays attention to your wellbeing

• Charity & social impact programs where each employee is an actor of the company’s engagement

• Lifestyle benefit 418€ a year

• Flexible working policy for 2022 with allowance

• Life and long-term disability insurance

• Viator’s discount

• Hertz gold plus reward membership

• Calm app access

• Paid time off

• Linkedin learning access

• Health insurance

• Meal Vouchers

About our core values:

• We love our customers

• We never stop learning

• Act like an owner

• Speed wins

• We are better together

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