Yext (NYSE: YEXT) is the leading brand visibility platform, built for a world where discovery and engagement happen everywhere — across AI search, traditional search, social media, websites, and direct communications.
Powered by over 2 billion trusted data points and a suite of integrated products, Yext provides brands the clarity, control, and confidence to perform across digital channels.
From real-time insights to AI-driven recommendations and execution at scale, Yext turns a brand's digital presence into a competitive advantage, which is only possible through our team of innovators and enthusiastic collaborators.
Join us and experience firsthand why we are consistently recognized as a "Best Place to Work" globally by industry leaders such as Built In, Fortune, and Great Place To Work®!
What You'll Do:
- Contribute to the evolution of a scalable design system that improves product consistency, accessibility, and usability.
- with engineering to ensure smooth implementation and quality alignment between design tokens, components, and code.
- Collaborate with product teams (design + engineering) who consume the system to gather feedback, identify gaps, and shape features that meet their needs.
- Track and report adoption metrics, using insights to drive system improvements and advocate for system use across the organization.
- Proactively identify and address usability problems and opportunities across the platform through hands-on usage of our products.
- Bring a modern, fresh perspective to the UI—introducing design patterns, visual styles, and interaction approaches that elevate the overall experience.
- Create, maintain, and improve system documentation in a clear, consumable format for designers and engineers.
- Participate in user testing and validation of components, ensuring accessibility, responsiveness, and adherence to UX best practices.
- Work effectively in a fast-paced, iterative environment, balancing quality with speed to deliver value quickly.
- Co-lead initiatives with Design, Product Management, and Engineering to align the system with business goals, technical constraints, and user needs.
- Mentor peers on design system best practices and influence product teams to take a systematic approach to design.
What You'll Have:
- 2-4 years of experience designing and shipping digital products and design systems
- Training and comfort using the tools and practices of HCD, UX, and Design Systems - Figma, Zeroheight, Storybook, GitHub.
- Demonstrated success incorporating WCAG accessibility practices and tools (e.g. Stark) into componentry and tokens.
- Comfortable using AI tools to streamline your workflow while exercising a discerning eye to edit and refine outputs.
- Experience participating in the product development process as an equal partner to Product Managers and Engineering.
- Demonstrated systems thinker, with a broad and holistic approach to understand how all the pieces connect together.
- An understanding of how research, data, heuristics and design sense play into decision making.
- Experience designing componentry and collaborating with Engineering through the end-to-end process
- Proven ability to manage multiple design requests in a timely fashion, with competing priorities and deadlines.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate asynchronously and with teams across time zones.
- Fluent in conversational and written English communication.
Bonus Points:
- Familiarity with device screen sizes and responsive grid principles
- Familiarity with frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.)
- Inclination to tinker and experiment with the goal of improving and scaling workflows
- Experience designing for variable data and multiple form-factors
- Ability to create usage guides and annotations to be used cross-functionally
- Interaction design sensibility for micro-interactions and motion
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