VP UI Design: Enterprise Platform & Design System Lead

Citi; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 93,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi Dublin is seeking a Senior UI Designer to lead the visual and interaction design of the Lightspeed platform, Citi's CI/CD developer platform used by over 10,000 engineers globally. You will partner with the Product Owner on UX strategy, translate direction into high-fidelity designs and robust prototypes.

This role requires driving design across the enterprise design system, contributing reusable components and tokens, and collaborating in Jira Kanban within an agile environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in UI, product, or interaction design for enterprise or developer-focused products.
• 2+ years with Angular-based applications and front-end implementation.
• Experience designing for React apps and component-driven architectures.
• Expert-level Figma with components, variants, auto-layout, tokens, prototyping, and handoff.
• Ability to build multi-state interactive prototypes for complex workflows.
• Experience collaborating with Product Managers and engineers in Agile environments.
• Portfolio showing data-dense interfaces or enterprise platforms.
• Knowledge of design systems governance and token theming in enterprises.
• Frontend literacy: HTML/CSS for bridging design and tech.
• WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility adherence.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Owner to co-create solutions with rapid iteration.
• Own end-to-end visual and interaction design for Lightspeed features.
• Create rich interactive prototypes to demonstrate behavior to engineers.
• Expand Citi's enterprise design system with new components and tokens.
• Prepare design specs and handoff docs; collaborate with frontend engineers.
• Maintain consistent design patterns and UI standards across tooling.
• Lead design reviews and critiques with stakeholders.
• Apply accessibility standards at every stage.
• Incorporate AI-assisted workflows for ideation and prototyping.
• Manage design deliverables in Jira with transparency.

Skills

Angular integration

React design

Figma mastery

Prototyping

Design systems

Token architecture

Frontend basics

Accessibility (a11y)

AI tooling

Agile collaboration

Communication

Tools

Jira

Storybook

Job description

Citi Dublin is seeking a Senior UI Designer to lead the visual and interaction design of the Lightspeed platform, Citi's CI/CD developer platform used by over 10,000 engineers globally. You will partner with the Product Owner on UX strategy, translate direction into high-fidelity designs and robust prototypes.

This role requires driving design across the enterprise design system, contributing reusable components and tokens, and collaborating in Jira Kanban within an agile environment.