Senior Product Designer - Design Systems

Meeting your future team:

Join Collibra’s Design System Team:

As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll be joining a growing product organization working on Arbor, the Collibra Design System. You will help the team ensure that Arbor is fit for purpose and delivering value to the company. Working closely with product designers, UX writers, tech writers, and software engineers, you will build upon our component library to create guidelines and processes that ensure we are designing and building consistent experiences across all of our products.

The design system team aims to help our internal teams and our customers in many ways like:

1. Designing a cohesive, consistent, intuitive user experience
2. Defining design kits and best practice guidelines so that product designers can spend more time designing the best user journey and less time executing visual design and interactions
3. Developing and maintaining a front-end architecture that increases product development efficiency through quality code, accessibility enablement, and responsiveness 

Reporting to the design system team’s senior manager, you will help educate and collaborate with the product and engineering organization in helping them adopt and utilize Arbor. A successful implementation of Collibra’s design system means that we can:

• Increase customer happiness through faster innovation and faster time to value
• Enable an accessible, responsive experience for users
• Provide ready-to-use design assets for designers

As a Senior Product Designer on the design system team you are responsible for:

• Helping execute the design system’s vision, strategy, and roadmap in the context of broader organizational strategies and goals
• Identifying opportunities for new design system operations, features, and tooling to help the team become more efficient and have greater impact
• Continuing the growth and adoption of the design system as it expands in scope and matures
• Ensuring our design system meets—and exceeds—accessibility requirements by working with product teams to ensure inclusive design and evaluating accessibility audits
• Driving alignment with cross-discipline partners (e.g., product managers, UX designers engineers, research, UX writing, program managers) and stakeholders to help shape the definitions and strategies of the design system
• Articulating and validating decisions through collaboration, research and testing, always ensuring the design system provides value to our users

You Have: 

• 4+ years of experience as a product designer or similar role within a SaaS organization designing for web and/or mobile applications
• Experience building and maintaining component libraries in Sketch or Figma (we use Figma at Collibra)
• A proven history of working within a user-centered design process with designers, researchers, product managers, and engineers
• Experience balancing user needs, company strategy, and technical constraints when making decisions
• Experience partnering with technology teams and supporting technology products through an agile environment
• The ability to collaborate, inform, and compromise with stakeholders at all levels of the company
• A Bachelor's degree or equivalent related working experience is required

You Are:

• Analytical, communicative, collaborative, and are a creative problem solver
• Passionate about modular design, systems, accessibility, and technology
• Humble and able to freely discuss your own strengths and weaknesses (and those of others), but always in a kind, professional, and appropriate way
• Outcome oriented with a focus on the big picture of improving the system each time you respond to a problem, rather than just resolving the specific issue
• Experienced working within brand guidelines to create experiences that reinforce a brand’s style or voice through its visual touch-points
• Able to lead, direct, mentor, coach, and educate about design with a wide range of colleagues
• Understand the value of collaboration with fellow designers and engineers, but also take ownership and work independently under your own initiative
• Able to speak fluent U.S. or British English

Measuring Success: 

Reporting to Collibra’s Senior Manager, Design System, measures of success are:

• Month 1: Deep dive into onboarding, understanding our products, and getting to know the team
• Month 2: Understand major design system team priorities and participate in team activities as well as UX team design critiques
• Month 3: Proficient in component and documentation creation and are actively identifying areas of improvement for the team 

Benefits at Collibra:

We strive to provide all Collibrians with competitive and cost-efficient benefits that are aligned to our company values. As a high-growth company, our goal is to offer flexibility and choice with our benefits programs to support the evolving needs of our changing workforce. The specific offerings will differ slightly by region but our {Be}well benefit programs encompass the following strategic pillars:

• {Be}Healthy: Healthcare for yourself and eligible dependents (inclusive of partners/domestic partners), mental health resources and care, tax-advantaged accounts, income protection, discount programs and more! Additionally, we encourage employees to treat their whole self by offering a bi-monthly calendar of events and programming dedicated to our {Be}well initiatives which focus on wellbeing areas including emotional, professional & social, financial, physical, allyship & belonging and giving back.
• {Be}With Family: We offer multiple types of leave so that you can spend time with loved ones, including parental leave, caregiver leave and our annual family day. These are all complementary to our culture in which we value output over hours!
• {Be}Kind: Collibra For Good, Unconscious Bias & Allyship training, Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Strategy, Environmental Social Governance (ESG) strategy, racial equity awareness programs and Collibra-led fundraisers.
• {Be}Unplugged: Our paid time off programs include vacation, holidays, sick time and compassionate/bereavement leave. We also offer remote-friendly meditation sessions and cooking lessons – all of which you’re actively encouraged to use!
• {Be}Informed: Competitive compensation, bonus potential, private company equity, merit reviews and promotion cycles, company pension, discounts programs, access to LinkedIn Learning, employee referral program, employee rewards & recognition, development programs and more!
• {Be}Together: Community and belonging with our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and personal interest groups, ERG-driven events, speaker series, and celebrations, a dedicated DEI council, the virtual Collibra cafe, trivia, bingo games and much more! 

When in-person (office) life resumes, we look forward to more snacks, catered lunches, team offsites and social events (think holiday gift exchange, fundraising events, happy hours, celebrations and more)!

Equal Opportunity:

At Collibra, we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer – which ties directly to our core value, “open, direct, and kind.” We realize the key to creating a company with a world-class culture and employee experience comes from who we hire and creating a workplace that celebrates everyone. 

With this, we proudly consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, sex, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, HIV status, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, citizenship status or any other legally protected category.

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