Staff Product Designer: Design Systems at Scale

Halter

Auckland

On-site

NZD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Delicious snacks and drinks

Southern Cross Health Insurance

6 months paid parental leave (primary)

4 weeks paid secondary caregiver leave

$1000 self-development budget

Unlimited paid annual leave

Employee stock ownership plan

Job summary

Halter is seeking a Staff Product Designer to lead the design of a significant area of the product experience from our Auckland, New Zealand HQ. You will tackle some of the hardest problems, set the bar for Halter's product design, and mentor other designers while shaping how design systems scale across mobile and web.

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Qualifications

8+ years designing digital products, with significant time spent designing and building design systems at scale.
Exceptional visual craft and command of typography, layout, spacing, colour, accessibility, interaction and motion design.
Proven experience shipping a design system with engineers. You know how tokens and component libraries are structured in code, and you've built and maintained the Figma to code connection.

Responsibilities

Set, own and advance our design foundations across mobile and web.
Set the standard for craft at Halter, and make that standard usable through principles, guidance and worked examples that raise the quality of what every team ships.
Shape the technical architecture and system structure alongside engineers.
Treat the system as a product with real customers. Set its direction, prioritise what to build next based on what designers and engineers actually need.
Give teams a clear point of view on which pattern to reach for and why.
Turn our field conditions into standards the system carries by default: legibility, target sizes, clarity at a glance.
Work alongside teams to spot what's working across new product surfaces and promote it into documented, reusable foundations. Decide what earns the right to be a pattern and what's better left a considered one-off.
Raise the craft of the designers around you through feedback, reviews and mentorship, and champion the system across product, engineering and design leadership.