Senior Design Systems Designer — Global Platform, Relocation

NEXT Ventures; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

NEXT Ventures is seeking a Senior Design Systems Designer to build and scale the design system powering our web and mobile products. You will own components, tokens, documentation, and tooling to ensure consistency and quality across platforms.

This role combines hands-on design with system strategy and mentorship across the design team. You’ll collaborate with product, design, and engineering to drive adoption, balance quality with speed, and advance accessibility and responsive patterns.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of product design experience with deep design systems expertise.
• Portfolio showing design systems built from scratch, token architectures, documentation, and measurable adoption.
• Expert Figma skills: components, variants, auto-layout, variables, tokens.
• Ability to write technical docs in Markdown and use AI tools to speed up workflows.
• Strong typography, color theory, spacing, responsive design, and WCAG 2.2 accessibility.
• Experience building systems in greenfield and improving brownfield products.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the design system end-to-end: components, tokens, patterns, and docs.
• Maintain scalable foundations for consistency across web and mobile.
• Audit products, create baselines, and map a roadmap for improvements.
• Design tokens pipeline and design-to-code integration with Storybook and tools.
• Enable theming, dark mode, and cross-platform consistency.
• Collaborate with engineers to improve handoff and reusable components.

Skills

Design systems

Figma

Design tokens

Markdown docs

Storybook

Front-end collaboration

AI-assisted design

Mentoring

Tools

Storybook

Zeroheight

Tailwind

Tokens Studio

Style Dictionary

Markdown

Job description

NEXT Ventures is seeking a Senior Design Systems Designer to build and scale the design system powering our web and mobile products. You will own components, tokens, documentation, and tooling to ensure consistency and quality across platforms.

This role combines hands-on design with system strategy and mentorship across the design team. You’ll collaborate with product, design, and engineering to drive adoption, balance quality with speed, and advance accessibility and responsive patterns.