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Are you a seasoned User Experience Designer with expertise in design systems-passionate about raising the bar that defines the experiences of modern Enterprise SaaS products
Do you thrive on transforming complex design challenges into unified solutions and patterns that resonate across product ecosystems
You've come to the right place.
Korn Ferry is seeking a Senior UX Designer specializing in Design Systems to join our growing product organization. You will play a crucial role in building the next generation of enterprise solutions, empowering the world's leading businesses with consistent and inclusive UX solutions. Our cross-functional design system team works closely to ensure clarity, alignment, and seamless integration of our design language across multiple products.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Drive the design and evolution of our new KF Design System, ensuring scalability and consistency across the entire product suite.
- Define and evolve a comprehensive design system, including UI components, patterns, and guidelines.
- Create high-fidelity visual designs and prototypes that demonstrate the capabilities of the design system and showcase the direction of our user experiences.
- Collaborate with UX Designers, Engineers, and Product Managers to define, implement, and evolve design patterns, components, and interaction models that meet our product needs and address real user problems.
- Define patterns for emerging technology, such as agentive design, that will unlock new ways of working.
- Audit and refine the component library to ensure the quality, consistency, and accessibility of KF's design language.
- Facilitate workshops and design reviews to gather feedback and iterate on components, empowering designers and developers to contribute to and leverage shared assets effectively.
- Advocate for the design system throughout the organization, educating teams on its benefits and driving adoption that enhances both product efficiency and design consistency.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS
- Proven UX design experience with a strong focus on design systems. You have approximately 5+ years of experience working in complex Enterprise SaaS environments.
- A portfolio showcasing design system work, including visual components, interaction models, and accompanying specifications.
- Strong understanding of design principles. You can create high-quality components and patterns that are easy to use, scalable, and cohesive across the product suite.
- Experience in Systems Thinking. You have a holistic view of how individual components fit into the larger system and can balance the needs of individual teams with the broader product vision.
- Effective Communication Skills. You can articulate the rationale behind design decisions, particularly from an accessibility standpoint, and advocate for best practices within cross-functional teams.
- A strong attention to detail, from wireframe through to the final design, ensuring the final builds adhere to exacting standards.
- Expertise in Figma, with a strong knowledge of how to collaborate and build component libraries within the tool.
- Lead and contribute to design critiques, offering feedback to other designers while advocating for consistency and cohesion across all product lines.
- Work with writers to document usage guidelines and best practices for the design system, ensuring comprehensive and clear reference material for all team members.
- Contribute to design system training, ensuring designers and engineers understand how to leverage components effectively.
- Coordinate usability testing efforts for specific patterns and components, ensuring they meet universal design principles and contextual product requirements.
- Stay current with design trends without being trendy and advocate for best practices in design systems to ensure our solutions remain forward-thinking and innovative.
- Familiarity with front-end development concepts (HTML, CSS, JSON) is a plus, as it provides the context for effective collaboration with engineering team members.
- Experience designing patterns that facilitate data visualization, analytics, and insights for users, making complex data easy to understand and act upon.
- Experience designing patterns that facilitate cross-product workflows.
- Proficiency in working iteratively, from rapid prototyping to high-fidelity component design, while staying focused on outcomes.
- Experience with remote and unmoderated testing.
