Lead - UX

Responsibilities

Vertiv s Experience Design Group is looking for a senior visual designer with experience in visual design and in building and maintaining design systems. Your unique perspective and expertise is needed to build a comprehensive and user-friendly design system. Your hands-on experience as a user will enable you to understand the needs and pain points of fellow designers, while your expertise as a creator will allow you to develop intuitive and effective design system components. A strong collaborative approach will be instrumental in creating and maintaining our complex design system, ensuring efficient workflows and improving our overall design system documentation and information architecture.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including designers, developers, and offering managers, to understand user requirements and translate them into intuitive and visually appealing design system components.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive UX design system that includes UI patterns, style guides, design principles, and interaction guidelines.
• Incorporate research insights into the design system.
• Create prototypes and help with usability testing to validate design decisions and iterate on the design system components.
• Work closely with developers to ensure the successful implementation of design system components and maintain consistency across different platforms and devices.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies related to UX design systems, and provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with other UX designers to ensure the design system aligns with the overall brand identity and user experience strategy.

Qualifications

Competitive/ideal candidates must have the following skills/experience:

• Demonstrated proficiency using, contributing to, and maintaining enterprise design systems.
• 5+ years of web design/visual design, layout, and typography skills with excellent attention to detail
• Proven experience in UX design, with a focus on design systems and component-based design.
• Advanced proficiency in Figma
• Demonstrated experience working with design tokens in a multi-platform environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to effectively articulate design decisions.
• Demonstrated experience in end-to-end user experience processes and workflows, including user journeys, wireframing, prototyping.
• Understanding of CSS variables and pre-processors (like LESS, SASS), JSON, or similar technologies related to design token creation.
• Attention to detail and the ability to balance multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
• A portfolio showcasing your previous work on UX design systems and visual design expertise is mandatory.