Senior User Experience Designer, Design System

Charles Schwab; Westlake (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services leader is seeking a Senior Designer to enhance their design system for mobile platforms. The role involves evolving design strategies, simplifying components, and collaborating with product teams to solve complex challenges. Candidates should have extensive experience in mobile design and an aptitude for working effectively within agile teams. This position offers competitive benefits, including a generous 401(k) match and paid time off.

Benefits

401(k) with company match

Paid time for vacation and volunteering

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in product design environments with 4+ years in native mobile projects.
• Experience in design system or system thinking.
• Familiar with iOS and Android platform conventions.
• Strong collaboration skills with diverse stakeholders.
• Comfortable working with agile methodologies.
• Proven problem-solving and project management abilities.
• Excellent written and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Help evolve Schwab’s Everest Design System.
• Refine strategy for native mobile components.
• Enhance core components for simplicity and usability.
• Support complex product use cases with design solutions.
• Research and implement updates to Figma libraries.

Skills

Product design

Native mobile design knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

Agile methodologies

Writing skills

Presentation abilities

Job description

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

We Believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

Do you know the Apple HIG like the back of your hand? Looking for an opportunity to express your deep knowledge of Material design? Come help us blend platform best practices into our design system and improve the experience for millions of Schwab app customers.

Schwab’s Everest Design System team is hiring a Senior Designer (individual contributor) to help us evolve the system as we expand our guidance with higher level patterns, adopt new technologies, improve our education and training, and support our internal customer base of 150+ other UX Designers.

Our design system is called Everest and currently offers 50+ components across the web, iOS, and Android platforms. We have recently expanded into providing pattern level guidance, such as best practices for sorting and filtering, loading data, or announcing new features. We also provide page-level layouts and templates that help product teams start their experiences from a consistent foundation.

Some projects you might work on:

• Refining our strategy for leveraging native mobile components from SwiftUI (iOS) and Google Material (Android) while maintaining parity with our web component offerings
• Enhancing our core components (like lists and cards) with an eye towards simplicity and ease of use
• Partnering with product teams to support Schwab’s most complex use cases (such as options trading) with increased data density and functionality
• Researching, testing, and implementing updates to our Figma libraries that leverage new features to improve maintainability and usability for our customers
• Applying a fresh new layer of Liquid Glass to our iOS app and the latest Material 3 Expressive updates to Android

What you have

*How to successfully apply:

• Please include a cover letter (max 1 page) with your résumé file that discusses your interest in the role and why you believe your skills match up with our needs outlined above
• Link to a digital portfolio of your relevant work (we’ll be looking for previous design system work and native mobile projects). Make sure to include any passwords required

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience in product design environments with 4+ years of dedicated native mobile projects; Previous design system experience, or any experience that can demonstrate a system thinking mindset
• Native mobile design knowledge; You’ve worked with both iOS and Android systems and are familiar with the platform conventions of each; You know your size classes and how to build for dynamic type
• A sense for the details; You proactively search out edge cases and test your designs against them; Your components handle long text strings or dark mode colors in straightforward ways
• Strong cross-functional collaboration abilites; You know when and how to work with a diverse cast of stakeholders, including developers, accessibility specialists, product managers, and partner design teams
• Effective agile methodologies; You are comfortable working in a two-week sprint cadence and have successfully refined stories with an eye towards delivering incremental value
• An owner’s mindset; You can drive a project forward through ambiguity and prioritize your effort with an eye towards shipping value; You know how to pull in feedback from key stakeholders and use this input to increase the quality of final outcomes
• Strong writing skills; Our work involves a significant amount of written communication, targeting both internal and external audiences; You craft high quality documentation, Jira stories, and other artifacts that effectively balance completeness and conciseness
• Polished presentation abilities; You can weave stories that showcase, explain, inform, and persuade in a variety of formats and before a variety of audiences

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior working experience within the financial services industry

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.

What’s in it for you

At Schwab, we’re committed to empowering our employees’ personal and professional success. Our purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development means you’ll get the tools you need to make a positive difference in the finance industry. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
• Paid parental leave and family building benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health, dental, and vision insurance