Design System Designer

OLX; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

OLX is seeking a Senior Product Designer for its Design System team, influencing Real Estate products across web and app. You’ll evolve a scalable design system to boost consistency, quality, and pace, collaborating within a small pod spanning multiple tribes and supporting designers broadly.

You’ll drive component behavior, token strategies, and documentation, balancing system coherence with local needs. A strong portfolio and strong Figma proficiency are essential.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and maintaining a design system at scale.
• Experience running or contributing to a contribution model.
• Strong technical fluency and ability to discuss code implications with engineers.
• Sharp judgment on when to enforce consistency vs. exceptions.
• Strong communication skills to justify decisions to stakeholders.
• Comfortable with AI-assisted tools to improve speed and quality.
• Portfolio showing product and system thinking with shipped impact.
• Experience with Figma, component libraries, variables, tokens, and prototyping.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve reusable components and foundations to improve consistency across tribes.
• Define component behavior, states and variants and collaborate with engineering to ship them.
• Improve the contribution model so designers outside the core team can propose and ship components.
• Support design from problem framing through documentation and handover using research and feedback.
• Create documentation and specifications covering variants, edge cases, and usage guidance.
• Collaborate with engineers on token strategy linking Figma to production code.
• Resolve conflicts between local needs and long-term system coherence.
• Work with product design teams to embed systems thinking across products.

Skills

Design system at scale

Contribution model experience

Strong technical fluency

Clear stakeholder communication

Systems thinking

AI-assisted tooling familiarity

Tools

Figma

Job description

OLX is hiring a Senior Product Designer to join the Design System team working across its Real Estate products. The role focuses on evolving the design system to help designers and engineers design and build with greater consistency, quality and pace, working day to day within a small pod spanning web and app while supporting designers across multiple tribes. The position emphasises systems thinking and AI-assisted workflows and involves working within a contribution model to let teams propose, adopt and evolve components without fragmenting the system.

What you'll do

• Design and evolve reusable components, patterns and foundations within the design system to reduce duplication and improve consistency across tribes
• Define component behaviour, states and variants and work directly with engineering to ship them
• Run and improve the contribution model so designers outside the core pod can propose and ship components without breaking system coherence
• Support design work from problem framing through to documentation and handover, using research and feedback from teams to inform decisions
• Create clear documentation and specifications covering variants, edge cases and usage guidance
• Collaborate closely with engineers on token strategy and the practical link between Figma and production code
• Resolve conflicts between a tribe's local need and the system's long-term coherence
• Work with product design teams to identify gaps and embed stronger systems thinking across products

What they're looking for

• Proven experience designing and maintaining a design system at scale, not just documenting one
• Experience running or contributing to a contribution model, or a clear point of view on how to build one
• Strong technical fluency: understand how decisions translate into code and work with engineers as a peer
• Sharp judgment on trade-offs: when to enforce consistency and when to allow exceptions
• Strong communicator able to justify design system decisions to stakeholders and bring other designers along
• Comfortable with AI-assisted tools with an interest in applying them to improve speed, quality and consistency
• A portfolio demonstrating strong product and systems thinking with evidence of shipped impact
• Experience working in Figma, including component libraries, variables and tokens, and experience with built or coded prototypes