Design Systems Designer

National History Museum; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Pension scheme

Season ticket loan

Life insurance

Free exhibitions

Staff discount

Staff training

CSSC membership

Sports and social club

Job summary

National History Museum in London is seeking a Design Systems Designer to shape how millions of visitors use our website. You’ll design, build and maintain components, patterns and tokens within our design system.

You’ll work in a multi-disciplinary team with developers and UX designers to ensure accessibility and consistency across web and mobile, while promoting design system adoption.

Qualifications

• Experience in design systems and UI design.
• Strong knowledge of accessibility best practices.
• Ability to collaborate with developers and UX designers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain components, patterns and tokens within our design system.
• Oversee design patterns for colour, typography, spacing and motion across web and mobile.
• Advocate for design system adoption across multiple stakeholder groups.

Skills

UI design

Figma

Design systems

Collaboration

Accessibility

Tools

Figma

Job description

About Us

We are a world-class visitor attraction and leading science research centre. We use the Museum's unique collections and our unrivalled expertise to tackle the biggest challenges facing the world today. We care for more than 80 million objects spanning billions of years and welcome more than five million visitors annually and 16 million visits to our website.

Today the Museum is more relevant and influential than ever. By attracting people from a range of backgrounds to work for us, we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things.

We employ 1100 staff in a variety of roles, all united by our vision of a future where people and planet thrive. We need everyone to have the passion and drive to help us with our mission to create advocates for our planet and inspire millions to care about the natural world.

Diversity and inclusion matter to us.

Our vision is of a future where both people and the planet thrive. Diversity is one of our core values and we strive to build a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging. All new staff who join us learn about the importance of diversity and inclusion to the Museum and how to contribute to creating an inclusive environment.

We know we have more to do, but we are committed to ensuring that everyone who works at the Museum feels they can thrive and feel valued and respected.

About the role

As a Design Systems Designer, you'll play a key role in shaping how millions of visitors use our website to discover, plan their visit to the Museum. Working in a multi-disciplinary team, you'll design, build and maintain components, patterns and tokens within our design system. You’ll oversee design patterns for colour, typography, spacing, and motion across web and mobile, while advocating for design system adoption across different groups of stakeholders.

About you

You're an experienced Design Systems designer who has strong UI skills and deep expertise within Figma libraries and components. You work closely with developers and UX designers to maintain consistency and to understand what's realistic to build. You love to collaborate, sharing your skills and expertise to help others develop. You have a solid understanding of accessibility and user experience best practice.

Thriving at the Museum: the way we work

We are proud to work at the Museum and have identified the qualities we all need to embody to reach our shared ambition. This sits alongside the Museum’s values and forms the framework for the way we work.

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What we offer

• 27.5 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays (full time equivalent)
• Generous defined contribution Natural History Museum Pension Scheme (employer contribution 4 - 10%)
• Season ticket, bicycle and rental loan
• Life insurance
• Free admission to our exhibitions and many other paid exhibitions at museums, galleries and institutions across London and the UK.
• Staff discount at our Museum shops and cafes
• We offer a wide variety of training initiatives and opportunities to build skills. Investing in staff development is important to us, and we are ambitious about helping staff to grow and fulfil their potential.
• Affordable membership to the Civil Service Sports Council which offers a range of benefits including an extensive list of special offers and reduced entry fees at a selection of cinema chains, theme parks, theatres, retailers and supermarkets. It also provides entry to up to 300 English Heritage sites and other national treasures. For more details, visit https://www.cssc.co.uk
• Membership to our Sports and Social Association (for a small fee), which includes access to our in-house gym and clubs such as football, softball, table tennis and tennis and classes in Middle Eastern dance, yoga and Tai Chi

Hybrid working

We are working towards a vision where both people and planet thrive, and nothing gives a greater connection with this, than seeing first-hand, the visitors, scientific research and collections that all of our work is inspired by and working side by side with the teams delivering the visitor experience and events. We also recognise the benefits and flexibility that hybrid working brings. We operate a hybrid working model that requires regular, weekly attendance for this role, with the precise pattern of days on site and worked from home to be agreed with your manager.