Remote Product Designer: Design System (12-Month Contract)

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

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