Senior Design Systems Designer — Build Scalable Design Systems

NEXT Ventures; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Relocation assistance

Job summary

NEXT Ventures is seeking a Senior Design Systems Designer to own and scale our design system across web and mobile. This senior IC role demands building from the ground up, establishing scalable foundations, and driving adoption across design and engineering teams.

Based on-site in Dubai or Kuala Lumpur with relocation and visa sponsorship. You will mentor junior designers and contribute to priority product design initiatives, shaping our design systems practice from day one.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of product design experience, with deep, demonstrable expertise in design systems, component libraries, or design operations.
• Strong portfolio showing design systems built from the ground up, with token architectures and documentation.
• Expert-level Figma skills across components, variants, auto-layout, variables, and design tokens.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the design system end to end, including components, patterns, multi-tier design tokens, guidelines, and documentation.
• Establish scalable design foundations for web and mobile platforms.
• Audit existing products to identify inconsistencies and create a roadmap for systematic improvement.

Skills

Design systems

Figma

Component libraries

Collaboration

Tools

Storybook

Zeroheight

Tokens Studio

Style Dictionary

Job description

NEXT Ventures is seeking a Senior Design Systems Designer to own and scale our design system across web and mobile. This senior IC role demands building from the ground up, establishing scalable foundations, and driving adoption across design and engineering teams.

Based on-site in Dubai or Kuala Lumpur with relocation and visa sponsorship. You will mentor junior designers and contribute to priority product design initiatives, shaping our design systems practice from day one.