Design System Architect: Scale, Govern & Unify UX
Salt
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Job summary
Salt seeks an experienced Design System Specialist to establish and scale a design system used across multiple digital products and transformation programmes. The role sits at the intersection of UX/UI design and front-end development, translating design systems into scalable products beyond a mere component library.
You will own the design system across design and development environments, ensuring accessibility, consistency, and a seamless design-to-code workflow while driving adoption across
Qualifications
- Experience building, scaling or governing enterprise-level design systems.
- Ability to operate across both design and technical sides of a design system.
- Experience with automated design-token pipelines and working with development teams on coded component libraries.
Responsibilities
- Create, maintain and govern a comprehensive design system.
- Build and manage scalable Figma libraries and reusable components.
- Define and maintain design tokens covering colour, typography and spacing.
- Establish automated design-token pipeline between design and development environments.
- Partner with front-end developers to build a coded component library using Storybook.
- Ensure alignment between Figma components and production components.
- Define contribution models, versioning, releases and governance processes.
- Embed accessibility and responsive behaviour into components.
- Drive adoption of the design system across teams.
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Job description
Salt seeks an experienced Design System Specialist to establish and scale a design system used across multiple digital products and transformation programmes. The role sits at the intersection of UX/UI design and front-end development, translating design systems into scalable products beyond a mere component library.
You will own the design system across design and development environments, ensuring accessibility, consistency, and a seamless design-to-code workflow while driving adoption across
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