Product Designer: Design System (Maternity Cover)

Twinkl Ltd.; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote work

33 days annual leave

Me Day

Charity day

Westfield Health

Learning & development

Death in service 4x salary

Seasonal events

Job summary

Twinkl Ltd. is seeking an experienced Product Designer to lead core component design and manage standardized design libraries.

This maternity cover role focuses on driving design system adoption across product and design teams, building foundational system elements, and guiding peers contributing to the system. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize components, ensure accessibility, and maintain clear guidelines while supporting the broader product strategy and learning

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of digital product design experience, with at least 1 year focused on or heavily contributing to design systems.
• Figma proficiency: strong working knowledge of component architecture, library publishing, and tokens management.
• Systems mindset: ability to look beyond a single feature to see how a component functions across flows.
• Accessibility proficiency: foundational knowledge of WCAG standards and QA.
• Portfolio showcasing system design process, user research, and final designs.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Experience with AI prototyping tools, professionally or personally.
• Understanding of EdTech landscape is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and refine responsive, accessible UI components using advanced features like Auto Layout, properties, and variables.
• Write and update usage guidelines, interaction specifications, and clear do's/don'ts for each component.
• Partner with front-end engineers to align design libraries with code libraries.
• Act as main contact for design and product teams, triaging bug reports and helping resolve blockers.
• Conduct regular UI audits across products to consolidate patterns into the system.

Skills

Digital product design

Design systems

Figma

Accessibility

AI prototyping

Communication

Job description

Product Designer: Design System (Maternity Cover)

Location: Remote UK

Contract: 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Hours: 37.5 hours a week (Core hours 10:00am - 2:00pm Monday - Friday)

We're here to help those who teach. It's what brings us to work every day. At Twinkl, we’ve been providing educators across the world with high quality, trusted teaching and learning resources for over a decade now. They’re all written and checked by our wonderful team of experienced educators, and there are hundreds of thousands of resources to download, with new ones added daily.

The product team is dedicated to creating innovative and engaging experiences for both learners and educators. We are committed to enriching the lives of users by maintaining and evolving our web platform, as well as through creating tools that save adults time and educational applications that inspire learning in children.

We are seeking an experienced Product Designer to lead core component design, manage standardised design libraries, and drive design system adoption across product and design teams. In this role, you will actively construct, optimise, and document foundational system elements while providing guidance and support to peer designers contributing to the system.

Ongoing projects/how you’ll spend your day:

• Component Execution: Build and refine responsive, accessible UI components using advanced features like Auto Layout, properties, and variables.
• Documentation Maintenance: Write and update clear usage guidelines, interaction specifications, and clear "do’s and don’ts" for each component.
• Developer Alignment: Partner with front-end engineers to ensure design libraries and assets align with code libraries.
• System Support: Act as a main point of contact for design and product teams, triaging bug reports, reviewing contributions, and helping resolve implementation and design blockers.
• Audit & Optimisation: Conduct regular UI audits across existing products to identify inconsistent patterns and consolidate them into the system.

To succeed in the role, you will:

• Be User Centric: Have a deep empathy for users and a strong commitment to creating solutions that meet their needs and enhance their experience.
• Be Collaborative: Thrive in a team environment, working effectively with cross-functional teams to achieve common goals.
• Be Innovative: Bring creative problem-solving skills and a willingness to explore new ideas and approaches to design challenges.
• Be Detail Oriented: Have a keen eye for detail, ensuring the highest quality in design deliverables and user experiences.
• Be Adaptable & have a growth mindset: Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, and be able to adapt to changing priorities and new challenges, open to learning and responsive to feedback.

We're interested in people that have:

• 2-4 years of digital product design experience, with at least 1 year focused on or heavily contributing to design systems.
• Figma Proficiency: Strong working knowledge of component architecture, library publishing, and basic variables/tokens management.
• Systems Mindset: ability to look beyond a single feature or screen to see how a component functions across different user flows and use cases.
• Accessibility proficiency: foundational knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG), its application and quality assurance
• Portfolio showcasing your system’s design process, user research, and final designs.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• First-hand experience with some of the latest prototyping AI tools, either professionally or as personal experimentation.
• An understanding of the EdTech landscape, and emerging technologies such as AI is a plus

If you require a reasonable adjustment to the application/selection process to enable you to demonstrate your ability to perform the job requirements please include this at the foot of your covering letter. This will help us to understand any modifications we may need to make to support you throughout our selection process.

• A friendly, welcoming and supportive culture. We believe work should be fun and always put people before process
• Flexible working with fully remote and hybrid working options - early bird or night owl? No problem - our flexible working policy helps you work the hours that suits you best
• 33 days annual leave per year, pro rata. You decide which public holidays to recognise. After 2 years of employment, your annual leave entitlement will accrue year on year up to 38 days annual leave
• An additional day of annual leave, a Me Day, to take time for yourself
• Charity day to volunteer and support a registered charity of your choice
• Westfield Health (including Health Club discount and Westfield Rewards discount and cashback)
• Learning and Development opportunities, with opportunities for internal mobility across various departments / areas of the business
• 4 x annual salary death in service life assurance
• Enhanced parental and adoption leave after long service
• Quarterly awards designed to reward and recognise our wonderful Twinkl employees
• Seasonal events for all UK employees so you can catch up with your new colleagues in person