Senior Design Systems Architect — Fintech, Global Platform

NEXT Ventures; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 250,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Relocation assistance

Job summary

NEXT Ventures, a global fintech platform, is seeking a Senior Design Systems Designer to own and scale the design system powering our product ecosystem. You will build components, tokens, patterns, and documentation, while mentoring junior designers and driving adoption across design and engineering teams.

Based on-site in Dubai or Kuala Lumpur with relocation and visa sponsorship provided, you will collaborate across product and tech teams to deliver consistent, high-quality experiences for

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of product design experience with deep expertise in design systems and component libraries.
• Strong portfolio showing design systems built from scratch including components, tokens, documentation and measurable adoption.
• Expert-level Figma skills across components, variants, auto-layout, variables, and design tokens.
• Experience creating and maintaining technical documentation in Markdown (.md) files and leveraging AI tools to accelerate workflows.
• Knowledge of WCAG 2.2 accessibility and responsive design practices.

Responsibilities

• Design System Architecture and ownership from end-to-end, including components, tokens, and guidelines.
• Maintain design token pipelines and enable theming, dark mode, and design-to-code fidelity with engineers.
• Create clear design documentation and leverage AI-assisted workflows to accelerate iteration.
• Establish governance and accessibility standards aligned with WCAG 2.2; ensure scalability and consistency.
• Collaborate with product designers, engineers, and stakeholders to drive adoption of the design system.
• Mentor junior designers and take ownership of initiatives from concept to implementation.

Skills

Design systems

Component libraries

Figma

Design tokens

Markdown docs

AI tooling

Collaboration

Systems thinking

Frontend basics

Tools

Tailwind

Storybook

Zeroheight

HTML

CSS

React

Job description

NEXT Ventures, a global fintech platform, is seeking a Senior Design Systems Designer to own and scale the design system powering our product ecosystem. You will build components, tokens, patterns, and documentation, while mentoring junior designers and driving adoption across design and engineering teams.

Based on-site in Dubai or Kuala Lumpur with relocation and visa sponsorship provided, you will collaborate across product and tech teams to deliver consistent, high-quality experiences for