Senior Design Systems Designer

Into Design Systems; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

NEXT Ventures, the global platform behind FundedNext, is hiring a Senior Design Systems Designer to own and scale the design system powering their web and mobile product ecosystem. This role sits at the intersection of design and engineering to create components, tokens, patterns and documentation and drive adoption across teams.

The position is on-site in Dubai or Kuala Lumpur with relocation and visa sponsorship provided.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of product design experience with expertise in design systems
• Strong portfolio showing design systems built from ground up
• Expert-level Figma skills across components, variants, auto-layout, variables, and tokens
• Experience creating Markdown documentation
• Ability to leverage AI tools to accelerate design and documentation workflows
• Strong understanding of typography, colour theory, spacing, responsive design, and WCAG 2.2
• Experience in greenfield and brownfield environments
• Strong systems thinking balancing design quality, scalability, and trade-offs

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the design system end to end, including components, patterns, tokens, guidelines, and documentation
• Establish scalable design foundations that support consistency across web and mobile
• Audit existing products to identify inconsistencies and create a roadmap for improvement
• Architect and maintain a design token pipeline using Tokens Studio or Style Dictionary
• Enable theming, dark mode, and design-to-code consistency across platforms
• Partner with engineers to improve handoff and reusable libraries using Storybook and Zeroheight
• Create and maintain design documentation in Markdown files
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate component creation and iteration

Skills

Design systems

Component libraries

Figma

Markdown docs

AI tools

Accessibility WCAG

Responsive design

Systems thinking

Tools

Tokens Studio

Style Dictionary

Storybook

Zeroheight

Job description

NEXT Ventures is a global platform behind FundedNext, with 500+ employees across five countries, 220,000+ daily users, 43,000+ funded traders and over $150,000,000 distributed in performance rewards. They are hiring a Senior Design Systems Designer to own and scale the design system that powers their web and mobile product ecosystem. This senior individual-contributor role works at the intersection of design and engineering to create components, tokens, patterns and documentation and to drive adoption across design and engineering teams. The role is based on-site in Dubai or Kuala Lumpur, with relocation required and visa sponsorship provided.

What you'll do

• Build and evolve the design system end to end, including components, patterns, multi-tier design tokens, guidelines, and documentation
• Establish scalable design foundations that support consistency across web and mobile
• Audit existing products to identify inconsistencies, establish baseline components, and create a roadmap for systematic improvement
• Architect and maintain a design token pipeline using tools such as Tokens Studio or Style Dictionary
• Enable theming, dark mode, and design-to-code consistency across platforms
• Partner with engineers to improve design-to-code fidelity, handoff processes, and reusable component libraries using tools such as Storybook and Zeroheight
• Create and maintain design documentation, including component usage guidelines, specifications, and decision notes in Markdown (.md) files
• Leverage AI tools such as Google Stitch, ChatGPT, and Claude to accelerate component creation, documentation, and iteration

What they're looking for

• 6–10 years of product design experience with expertise in design systems, component libraries, or design operations
• A strong portfolio showcasing design systems built from the ground up, including component libraries, token architectures, documentation, and measurable adoption and impact
• Expert-level Figma skills across components, variants, auto-layout, variables, and design tokens
• Experience creating and maintaining technical documentation in Markdown (.md) files
• Ability to leverage AI tools such as Google Stitch, ChatGPT, and Claude to accelerate design and documentation workflows
• Strong understanding of design fundamentals, including typography, colour theory, spacing systems, responsive design, and accessibility standards such as WCAG 2.2
• Experience working in both greenfield and brownfield environments
• Strong systems thinking and the ability to balance design quality, scalability, and practical trade-offs