Job Title: Senior Production Designer
Industry: Technology / Consumer Electronics & Digital Products
Location: Hybrid onsite schedule – Cupertino, CA
Duration: 6 months – W2 Contract
Schedule: Full-time | 40 hours per week
Position Overview
We’re looking for a Senior Production Designer with deep expertise in design systems, token-driven UI, and high-fidelity web application interfaces. This role is execution-heavy: redlines, annotated specs, component application, and system-consistent UI layouts across complex internal tools.
This person will be in the trenches with product designers, engineers, and the design system team, closing the designer to engineer gap through bulletproof production work. If they wake up thinking in tokens and Sketch symbols, that’s our person.
Recruiter Insights
- Execution-heavy role focused on redlines, annotated specs, and system-consistent UI layouts
- Strong emphasis on design systems, token architecture, and component rules
- Candidates must be fluent in Sketch and have working knowledge of HTML/CSS
- Ideal background includes production-focused web UI experience for complex internal tools
Must Have Qualifications
You have:
- Target 5–7 years of experience
- Strong expertise in token-driven UI and high-fidelity web application interfaces
- Deep knowledge of design system architecture, tokens, component rules, and system governance
- Proven ability producing detailed redlines for engineering
- Experience contributing to or applying enterprise-level design systems (from docs to components to spec delivery)
- Understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG)
- Fluency in web UI/UX for data-heavy and workflow-heavy tools
- Master-level Sketch skills: libraries, symbol architecture, precision layouts
- Working knowledge of HTML/CSS to express layout, states, and responsive logic
- Strong communicator who collaborates well with designers, engineers, and design system partners
- Ability to juggle multiple production tracks simultaneously under tight timelines
- Proven success in fast-paced environments
Nice to Have
- Background in ads or ad-tech tooling
- Experience contributing to or evolving design system architecture
Disqualifiers
- No experience with design systems or token-driven UI
- Lack of HTML/CSS understanding for UI translation
Responsibilities
Redline & Production Excellence
- Produce pixel-perfect redlines, measurements, states, and responsive rules (primary deliverable of this role)
- Translate high-fidelity design mocks into engineering-ready specs with zero ambiguity
Design System Application
- Apply existing system components and token architecture consistently across components
- Identify misalignments, fill systemic gaps, and propose refinements with the design system team
- Maintain system integrity across new features and refactored UI
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with lead production designer, product designers, front-end engineers, and the design system team
- Participate in QA validation, file bugs, and validate that UI matches specs down to the last pixel
Web Application Production
- Execute across complex internal web tooling including tables, forms, workflows, dashboards, and multi-state interactive components
- Communicate effectively using HTML/CSS-based thinking for clear engineer handoff
File & Library Management (Sketch)
- Work exclusively in Sketch using symbols, shared libraries, naming conventions, overrides, and plugins
- Organize, clean, refactor, and maintain structured production files
Tools
- Sketch
- HTML/CSS (working knowledge for handoff)
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