UI Designer - Design System

The Role ?‍?

Location: While this position is posted in a specific location, all of Oyster’s positions are fully remote and you can work from home. Forever. 

What you'll be working on

At Oyster HR we are increasing the size of our engineering teams. Every team is dedicated to one area of our product (e.g. Payments & integrations, People operations, etc.). We’re looking for an experienced UI Designer. You’ll be helping our UI and Product design teams to create our first Design System, make sure Engineers and Product Designers adopt our components libraries and continually improve and maintain it.

You’ll be joining our UI Design team. We are a fast growing team of 8 designers in total. We are expecting to grow even more in the future.

What you'll do…

• Work in product teams to create Figma flows that range from low-fidelity wireframes to full-fidelity; pixel-ready designs that lead to intuitive user experiences.
• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, as well as new functions and features.
• Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.
• Assist in the design and development of the Design System from the design side
• Participate in team critiques and reviews, assist in user research, organize customer events and design workshops.
• Collaborate closely with engineering to build robust, polished components
• Be an advocate for the design system throughout the company, representing the team in product discussions and educating others on how to use the system
• Work with designers to ensure they're leveraging the Design System
• Have a keen ability to create work under minimal supervision and package and present solutions to the broader creative team. Quickly and superbly.
• Collaborate on project briefs and scoping.

What we're looking for ?

• At least 3 years of experience as a visual designer, product designer, or similar design-related role, working in a collaborative team and directly with developers for implementation of designs.
• At least 1 year of experience of experience working on Design Systems
• Portfolio demonstrating a good degree of visual proficiency in use of spacing, typography, colors, user-friendly designs. We won't consider applications without a portfolio.
• Strong visual communicator, is able to express concepts and ideas through the means of sketches, drawings, or prototypes.
• Expertise in design tools like Figma and similar tools
• Strong communication skills that make your process and proposals understandable and actionable to a diverse set of cross-functional audiences
• Strong visual and interaction design fundamentals
• You believe in the importance of consistency, and understand the benefits of building things systematically
• An understanding and appreciation of the practice of design iteration by always experimenting, evaluating and learning.
• Proven experience of advocacy for the customer and applying user research insights to your design.

Nice to haves:

• Demonstrated history of employing research and data to inform user-centric design decisions.
• Proficiency and experience in micro interactions, motion graphics and animations.
• Fair knowledge of HTML, CSS and a bit of JavaScript - React, storybook is a major plus.
• Strong storytelling skills and ability to communicate design rationale.