Design System Designer

LinkGroup is the company offering this Senior Design System Designer position, focusing on the S4D (System for Design) design system.

• 5+ years of experience building, maintaining, and scaling enterprise-grade design systems, component libraries, or UX frameworks across multiple products and brands.
• Deep expertise in Figma including component creation, variants, variables, design tokens, auto-layout, library maintenance, and governance workflows.
• Hands-on knowledge of design tokens, multi-brand foundations, color systems, and mapping between design files and code implementation.
• Practical understanding of frontend technologies such as HTML, CSS, and React to evaluate implementation constraints with engineering teams.
• Solid working knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standards with an accessibility-by-design mindset.
• Strong communication skills for agile delivery teams to justify design decisions and advocate system thinking.

Nice to have:

• Practical experience using AI tools for design-to-code translation or component generation with awareness of quality and accessibility impact.
• Proven experience scaling design foundations across complex, multi-region digital ecosystems.

• Create, maintain, and scale accessible (WCAG 2.2 AA) and reusable UI components, patterns, and design foundations for the S4D system.
• Optimize Figma library structures, managing variables, design tokens, and multi-brand token models across platforms.
• Author developer-facing usage guidelines, Do/Don't examples, accessibility considerations, and implementation specifications.
• Partner with the Design System Lead on daily operations, reviewing system contributions, refining backlog, and auditing library quality.
• Work closely with product designers, engineers, local product teams, and external agency partners to drive consistent S4D adoption and promote best practices.