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Design Systems
Blend Labs
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San Francisco, CA 94103
Benefits
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- Meaningful equity and a 401(k) plan
- Comprehensive health benefits
- A well-rounded Wellness Program that covers a variety of wellness activities, gym memberships, fitness classes and more
- 4 months of paid parental or personal leave
Full Job Description
Blend helps lenders maximize their digital agility. Our digital lending platform is used by Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, and other leading financial institutions to increase customer acquisition, improve productivity, and accelerate the delivery of any banking product across every channel. We process more than $3 billion in mortgages and consumer loans daily, helping millions of consumers get into homes and gain access to the capital they need to lead better lives.
As we continue to expand our products and teams, we’re looking for a thoughtful leader to help architecta design system to unitethe complete family of Blend products — ranging across consumer and enterprise experiences — and spearhead its adoption.
You understand that a design system is a living product that shapes the way we work together. You naturally cross borders and break down silos between disciplines, empowering designers and engineers to work quickly with high standards for quality and consistency.
You will be an early member of Blend’s design systems team, owning the definition of its vision, aligning stakeholders, and advising key road-mapping priorities. You will work closely with product designers and engineers to ensure consistency between features, design tools, libraries, and code. We believe that the ideal person for this role is an outstanding product designer who demonstrates strong systems-thinking, and illustrates how thoughtful design infrastructure builds lasting business value.
How you’ll contribute:
- Lead the design and technical direction of our design system, and its impact on the experience and visual design of Blend’s products, with input from partners in product design and engineering teams.
- Report team and system progress regularly to relevant stakeholders.
- Direct scope of systems concerns and relevant products to adopt it.
- Present the system’s mission, library, and process to other groups, including product managers, content specialists, QA, and other design and development teams.
- Review documentation for quality, consistency, and usefulness.
- Help identify and nurture team growth and culture, identifying opportunities for team members to drive and lead system initiatives.
Who you are:
- You are a strong systems thinker with hands-on experience contributing to design systems libraries, from building adoption to guiding contribution and maintaining component libraries.
- You bring clarity to the vision and simultaneously care deeply about the details.
- You are comfortable working with front end engineering teams for web and mobile user interfaces, including participating in code reviews. A plus if you have had hands-on experience and have contributed to code repositories for web or native apps.
- You are a genuine advocate of the impact of a design system, and know that building the partnerships needed to ensure its success requires regular and proactive communication and alignment.
Benefits and Perks:
- Meaningful equity and a 401(k) plan
- Comprehensive health benefits
- A well-rounded Wellness Program that covers a variety of wellness activities, gym memberships, fitness classes and more
- Lunch, dinner, snacks, and Pizza Fridays
- Journey meditation access, and on-site massages
- Flexible work schedule, with open vacation policy
- 4 months of paid parental or personal leave
- Convenient location, with parking programs, and flexible commuter options
Blend is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity, inclusion and belonging. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment all qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in a manner consistent with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Senior Product Designer – Design Systems
We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our Design Systems mission. We help teams focus on solving real user needs, ship products faster, avoid re-inventing solutions, leverage accessibility, and improve performance across platforms. If you are a high contributor to Design Systems who thrives on making major business impact at a we would love to hear from you!
Here’s What You’ll Do Day-to-day
- Define and standardize reusable design patterns and components.
- Partner with design, engineering, brand, and research to establish, build, and maintain a comprehensive library of shared components, using a modular approach to front-end development.
- Set up knowledge-sharing processes that promote collaboration, pairing, and training.
- Develop and maintain clear documentation of Citi product philosophy and principles as it relates to patterns and components.
- Utilize research methods to assess the efficacy of the system and understand customer needs.
- Track the effectiveness and adoption of the Design System as a tool across teams and disciplines.
- Advocate for accessibility standards and inclusive design principles.
Here’s What We’re Looking For
- 6+ years experience in product design, including experience building and evolving an effective design system (please link a personal website or portfolio).
- Exceptional interaction and visual design skills, with expert command of information design, visual hierarchy, layout, typography, color theory, and brand systems.
- Familiarity of platform conventions on Web, iOS, and Android as well as an understanding of when to break them.
- A drive for technical, scalable, and user-centric models of building things.
- Impeccable attention to detail.
- A strong emphasis on collaboration and feedback as a driver of success in their product design process.
- An excellent communicator and influencer who can work well with various groups and levels of the organization.
- Humble spirit.
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
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Design Operations Manager, Design Systems
The Design Systems team is responsible for the concepts, guides, systems, and components that define our customer experience. We are tasked with building these things in concert with teams across the company.
As the Design Operations partner embedded on this team, you will be tasked with maintaining close collaboration between Design, Product, and Engineering to implement our systems across product offerings and ensuring designers have what they need to generate high-quality design outputs.
What Design Ops handles
- Workflow: How the design work flows throughout Better
- Tools: Ensures the design team has the tools to get the job done
- Governance: Who needs to see the work, and when
- Infrastructure: What the team needs to work more efficiently
- Pipeline: Ensures there is clarity on projects coming up and how well staffed the team is
- Evangelization: Help the company understand the value of design
- Culture: Helping build and maintain a thriving design community
What you’ll do
- Work on strategic projects that operationalize our design system – defining scope, identifying resourcing needs, and handling stakeholder management.
- Partner with Design leadership to define and implement a structured curation and contribution process.
- Drive Design Systems-led initiatives to incorporate across other teams’ roadmaps.
- Facilitate meetings to drive progress against goals and objectives, establishing clear next steps and owners, and resolving blocks that impede progress.
- Manage design Jira tickets to enable transparency and manage workloads.
- Work cross-functionally to identify workflow issues and integrate procedural improvements.
- Track and communicate progress across your projects, ensuring the teams are on track – facilitating decision-making, resolving blockers, and surfacing challenges.
- Enable continuous improvement during projects, ensuring insights are captured, shared, and integrated.
- Become an evangelist, advocate, and educator on behalf of our design systems team, elevating the team’s presence within the organization.
- Always be acutely aware of the team’s needs and provide feedback to our design leads in order to ensure all designers experience an enjoyable and balanced work environment.
- Help develop process improvements for Design Operations as a whole
Who you are
- You have 5+ years experience in a Design Operations or Program Management role working with a Design team, ideally with some of that time spent working on a design systems team.
- You have a real passion for working with people. Supporting and enabling them to do their best work.
- Strong operational and facilitation skills, with a proven ability to plan, coordinate and execute projects.
- Clear, compelling presentation and communication style.
- You have an ability to work with multiple leadership styles, and can be effective in unstructured and ambiguous environments.
- You’re excited to join a growing Design Operations team and build something great!
As an Etsy employee, you can do the work you love, be yourself, and make an impact in the lives of millions. Our commitments to diversity and inclusion, team culture and the spaces where we work all reflect our mission to keep commerce human.
Job Description
What’s the role?
The Design Systems team is responsible for creating the visual-and-interactive system that product teams rely upon to build beautiful, usable digital user experiences in a scalable and repeatable way. Our design system consists of the components and patterns, guidelines, and toolkits that enable designers and engineers to quickly-and-efficiently build products for the millions of Etsy buyers and sellers from across the world.
You’ll join a multi-disciplinary team to evolve the design system by maintaining and inventing new UI components and interactive patterns for ecommerce. This role will play an important part in the Product Design team’s operations by administering the user accounts of our competitors’ products and services. You will broaden the Design System team’s strategic capabilities by analysing emerging UX trends and auditing the features-and-functionality offered by our competitors as the basis for formulating strategy to enhance the product experiences we deliver and drive our company’s strategy.
What is Product Design at Etsy?
You will work directly with Design, Product and Engineering leadership to craft our growing landscape of systems and will shape the future of Etsy’s customer experience. Your work will have a multiplier effect as your products are used by all product teams, and touch every piece of the customer journey.
Day to day, it looks like:
- Writing guidelines, evolving UI components, and maintaining Figma libraries
- Contributing to strategy-setting and providing design feedback to members of the entire Product Design organization implementing Etsy’s Design System
- Conducting audits of competitors’ user experiences to discover insights, opportunities
- Taking part in weekly design critiques, workshops, all hands and squad meetings
- Using research and data to inform your design solutions
- Sketching, prototyping, and creating high fidelity artifacts for the team, using your judgement to determine the best formats and fidelities for your work
- Testing prototypes with internal customers to collect feedback
- Launching experiments and evaluating how they perform and how to iterate
- Thinking and writing about your process and documenting your decisions
Qualifications
Mid level at Etsy means:
- You work independently but seek mentorship and feedback from your manager and more senior designers
- You contribute to strategy and design direction
- You use research and data to inform your design solutions
- You sketch, prototype, and create high fidelity artifacts for the team, using your judgement to determine the best formats and fidelities for your work
- You use our design system proficiently and consistently
- You ship good work, balancing pragmatism and quality
Qualities we value in designers:
- Effective articulation of ideas and design solutions
- Expressing feedback with kindness and candor
- Tolerance for ambiguity and healthy curiosity
- Translation of quantitative & qualitative insights into design decisions
- Contribution to our culture: motivation, optimism, quality, integrity
Please note: If you are expressing interest by applying to one Product Designer role, your application will automatically be considered for all open positions at that level. Please do not apply to roles at the same level. We have you covered!
Additional Information
At Etsy, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace makes us a more relevant, more competitive, and more resilient company. We welcome people from all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences. Etsy is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.