Design Foundations, Systems Designer

Job Description

About the role

The Design Foundations team at Netflix is searching for a systems designer to help shape the next phase of Hawkins, our design system. This role's objective is twofold:
- create design patterns at scale by researching and identifying shared opportunities across multiple product design teams
- move fluidly between the componentry at the foundations of our system and more high-level, ecosystem-wide features.

As a System Designer on the team, you will collaborate closely with product design, engineering, content design, and design ops organizations.

You should be passionate about delivering quality at scale and bring organizational vision, structure, and leadership to help teams succeed.

What you'll do
• Collaborate with designers to understand new product decisions, build back into the system when validated, and extend to engineering.
• Maintain, improve, document, and evolve our design libraries for various user needs.
• Build for accessibility upfront in the creative design process, and advocate for inclusive experiences across platforms.
• Communicate releases clearly to extended stakeholders, rationalizing decisions based on data, brand guidance, or accessibility.
• Create a collaborative working environment that will enable our design partners to build new experiences with our design system confidently.
• Own the full lifecycle of component design, token creation, and publishing to designers via our system Figma libraries.

The must-haves
• 5+ years of experience in product design building experiences for end customers
• 5+ years of experience building a centralized or distributed design system at a company with 40+ designers
• Deep systems expertise to hit the ground running designing and publishing tokens & components, and higher level patterns
• Ability and desire to flex high & low to inform strategic decisions as well as execute detailed hands on work
• Strong demonstration of visual craft and attention to detail
• Ability to effectively navigate ambiguity, build alignment and influence peers
• Excellent communication skills to articulate decisions and rationale
• An understanding of the broader design system community with a desire to innovate next generation systems, tooling and workflows
• Strong technical understanding to communicate effectively with engineering
• Understanding of driving accessible solutions at scale, across platforms
• Experience developing and evolving brand across a design system

About the Team

The Design System initiative is part of Design Foundations. They both roll up to Core XD, a horizontal team whose mission is to enable quality and innovation at scale for the design organization. We have multiple sub-teams, each focused on a different aspect of this mission. We are accelerators and partners, with collaboration and the success of product teams at the heart of what we do.

At Netflix, we carefully consider a wide range of compensation factors to determine your personal top of market. We rely on market indicators to determine compensation and consider your specific job, skills, and experience to get it right. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary and will also be dependent on your location.

The overall market range for roles in this area of Netflix is typically $80,000-$550,000.

This market range is based on total compensation (vs. only base salary), which is in line with our compensation philosophy. Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rny2qo-3-137-220-120-42 in your application.