Experience Designer Lead - Contractor

Position Title: Experience Designer Lead
Location: Pittsburgh, PA/ Dallas, TX/ Cleveland, OH/ Birmingham, AL/ Phoenix, AZ

Roles and Responsibilities:
Lead will share core responsibilities listed below as other experience designers, but they will be directing more of the activities with the junior designers on the team. This is a specific kind of designer that works on the design system side. We are not looking for engineers, we are looking for those with past design systems experience at another company Create and update documentation and graphics for design docs Build, fix, and test Figma components Create dev specs Design and test Angular components Collaborate with content and ADA accessibility partners Stay up to date on competitive analysis of other design systems Answer help desk questions Attend or facilitate open office hours Attend or facilitate early Design Reviews with product designers Attend or facilitate design system Design Reviews Attend or facilitate design system governance meetings Research, audit, and prepare topics for design system governance meetings Attend or facilitate working sessions across product design teams to align Work on special projects as requested Must have skills in priority order Design System experience, ideally working on a design system (using at a minimum but hopefully contributing / maintaining) Figma experience - creation of components Jira Confluence Product, UI, UX design Good Communication Presentation / Facilitation experience Critical thinking Systems thinking mindset Detail oriented

MUST HAVE SKILLS: Figma, Figma experience - creation of components Jira Confluence Adobe suite Design System experience, ideally working on a design system (using at a minimum but hopefully contributing / maintaining) Product, UI, UX design

SOFT SKILLS: Good Communication Presentation / Facilitation experience Critical thinking Systems thinking mindset Detail oriented

Education/Certifications: Will look at experience in lieu of education, Experience design bootcamps a plus.

Screening Questions: Please summarize your design systems experience and leading a team? Have you worked on a design system? If so, what was your role?