Global Design Systems Architect

NEXT Ventures; Kampung Malaysia Tambahan; Vor Ort; MYR 180.000 - 240.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Visa sponsorship

Relocation assistance

Zusammenfassung

NEXT Ventures is seeking a Senior Design Systems Designer to own and scale the design system across our web and mobile products. You’ll build components, tokens, patterns, and documentation, from ground up, uniting design and engineering with strong ownership.

Based on-site in Dubai or Kuala Lumpur, you’ll mentor designers, drive adoption, establish governance and WCAG 2.2 accessibility standards, and partner with product teams to deliver consistent experiences.

Qualifikationen

• 6–10 years of product design experience with design systems expertise.
• Portfolio with design systems, component libraries, token architectures, and measurable adoption.
• Expert-level Figma skills across components, variants, auto-layout, variables, and tokens.
• Experience documenting in Markdown (.md) and using AI tools to accelerate workflows.
• Strong typography, colour theory, spacing, responsive design, and WCAG 2.2 accessibility.
• Experience building systems from scratch and improving existing products.
• Self-starter with track record of 0→1 initiatives and cross‑functional collaboration.
• Able to relocate and work on-site in Dubai or Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Aufgaben

• Build and evolve the design system end to end with components, patterns, tokens, guidelines and docs.
• Establish scalable foundations for web and mobile platforms.
• Audit products to identify inconsistencies and roadmap improvements.
• Architect and maintain a token pipeline using Tokens Studio or Style Dictionary.
• Enable theming, dark mode, and design‑to‑code fidelity with engineers using Storybook/Zeroheight.
• Create clear design documentation in Markdown and drive AI-assisted workflows.
• Govern design system quality with governance, accessibility and reusable patterns.
• Collaborate with product designers, engineers and managers to ensure adoption.

Kenntnisse

Design systems

Component libraries

Figma

Documentation

Collaboration

Mentoring

Tools

Tokens Studio

Style Dictionary

Storybook

Zeroheight

Markdown (.md)

Jobbeschreibung

NEXT Ventures is seeking a Senior Design Systems Designer to own and scale the design system across our web and mobile products. You’ll build components, tokens, patterns, and documentation, from ground up, uniting design and engineering with strong ownership.

Based on-site in Dubai or Kuala Lumpur, you’ll mentor designers, drive adoption, establish governance and WCAG 2.2 accessibility standards, and partner with product teams to deliver consistent experiences.