Job Description
You will help the Product Design team meet customers' high expectations for quality and familiarity by developing and applying system interface elements, icons, text styles, and uniform terminology to innovative new features; work across product teams to identify emerging trends, and turn them into reusable patterns; develop and maintain a pattern library and documentation; and advocate for UI standards and accessibility with designers, engineers, and stakeholders. This is an opportunity to elevate our complete system to an exceptional standard of craft. The Design System, and all components thereof, are the sole focus of this role.
What you will do:
- Work day-to-day in a cross-functional team of engineers, product designers, brand designers, content producers, and product managers to build and maintain an end-to-end design system for Headspaceโs surfaces and formats (iOS, Android, desktop, and responsive web)
- Identify opportunities to improve our existing design system
- Design workflows and internal tooling for keeping product assets and designs versioned and updated in regards to content, brand, and product efforts for PR and internal archive purposes
- Guide and design the evolution of our design system(s), including the visual language, user interface and user experience of our component libraries and the tooling our design team uses every day
- Specify and maintain core principles in visual style, typography, spacing, motion, and interaction models
- Design and deploy interaction patterns through components, documentation, and prototypes
- Work with front-end developers to create new and maintain existing components that meet and exceed accessibility standards
- Continually seek to understand the capabilities and technical constraints of the systems with which youโll be developing and working
- Enforce consistency and coherence across our design system
- Work with Design, PM, User Research, and Engineering peers to define the strategy, prioritize the design system roadmap, and ensure that all projects are well defined and high impact
- Connect the dots across experiences and teams to create a cohesive design system and customer experience
- Communicate and align with stakeholders, to keep them informed on the design system teamโs progress and goals
What you will bring:
Required Skills:
- 7+ years of design experience, specifically UI visual design and creating design systems
- Proficiency in systems thinking and its application within a comprehensive design framework
- Capable of working independently while also providing guidance and mentorship to teams in the realm of visual UI design excellence
- Proficiency in tokenization within design systems, collaborating closely with engineers to ensure effective implementation
- Advanced Figma, particularly creating easy-to-use shared libraries for the larger design team
- Strong understanding of how web and mobile applications work
- Expert knowledge of platform-specific interface patterns and behaviors
- Understanding of information architecture
- You are accustomed to working in a collaborative cross-disciplinary environment, where experimentation and testing are valued
Preferred Skills:
- Both agency and in-house experience
- Healthcare, health benefits, mental health, or wellness industry experience
- BA in interaction design, graphic design, product design, or visual design
Pay & Benefits:
The base salary range for this role is determined by a number of factors, including but not limited to skills and scope required, relevant licensure and certifications, and unique relevant experience and job-related skills. The base salary range for this role is $104,981-$157,476.
At Headspace, cash salary is but one component of our Total Rewards package. Weโre proud of our robust package inclusive of: base salary, stock awards, comprehensive healthcare coverage, monthly wellness stipend, retirement savings match, lifetime Headspace membership, unlimited, free mental health coaching, generous parental leave, and much more. Paid performance incentives are also included for those in eligible roles. Additional details about our Total Rewards package will be provided during the recruitment process.
