Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

Choco provides a centralized platform connecting restaurants and suppliers. The result is better communication, simplified logistics, and - here comes the big one - less food waste. Our aim is to contribute to a transparent, sustainable and waste-free global food chain by 2030. 

Our chat-based ordering app has already changed the game for thousands of restaurants and suppliers across the globe, but there is much more work to be done. And that’s where we need your help. If you’re looking to be at the intersection of purpose and innovation, we’d love to hear from you.

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Meet your team

Our design system is at the core of every design solution across the entire Choco platform. As a Senior Design System Designer, you are a member of a multidisciplinary design team, including product designers, UX researchers, UX copywriters and brand designers. You report to the CDO, Katharina Birkenbach. 

As Design System Designer you will be working hands-on to scale and mature as well as evangelize the design system across all squads. The Design System Designer is an experienced product designer who designs foundational patterns, UI components, tools, and processes that enable designers and engineers at Choco to create consistent, high quality user experiences. This includes working on the design system and component library that all of Choco’s products are built on. We aim to build a dedicated design system team with engineers working exclusively on Design System tasks.

Our working model reflects a balance between the highly collaborative nature of our business and modern-day flexibility. Chocorians work on a hybrid model with a 3 days-a-week biweekly in office culture as our baseline.

What you’ll do

• Design and maintain the components, UI patterns, as well as own the Design System documentation (Figma) and the processes for Choco’s Design System and component library
• Lead the component build process from idea to execution to landing in our pattern libraries for use across all platforms (iOS, Android and Web)
• Collaborate with product designers, engineers and other stakeholders within the company to develop the tools and processes they need to build world-class user experiences
• Prioritize the component work plan with the Product Designers and Product Managers
• Write documentation and guidelines to train designers and engineers how to use components and patterns across design and code

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years of experience as a product designer, design engineer, or other function related to Design Systems
• A portfolio of work relating to design systems illustrating how you designed and maintained a design system
• Exceptional systems thinking with an ability to scale detailed design solutions across different applications and platforms and anticipate the potential downstream effects of large and small changes
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, able to build trusting and collaborative relationships
• Advanced knowledge of Figma, working with capabilities such as shared libraries, variants, and auto-layout 

About Choco

Founded in 2018 in Berlin, Choco has since expanded to a team of over 400 committed Chocorians working from active Choco offices across the U.S., France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, and Spain. Our ordering app is used by over 15K buyers and 10K suppliers around the globe - bringing our annual order volume to an estimated $1 billion.

Just a year after our $63.7 million Series A funding round, we secured an additional $100 million in Series B funding. In April of 2022, we gained another $111 million in Series B2 funding with a valuation of $1.2 billion - earning us unicorn status just a few years in.  

We’re backed by leading investors like Insight Partners, LeftLane Capital, Coatue Management, and Bessemer Venture Partners. In addition, we’re working alongside those who built companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Uber, and more.

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Choco is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We are committed to ensuring that our technology is made available and accessible to everyone. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.