Ettrics

Design System Lead

  • Design & User Experience
  • Full-time
  • Ottawa, CA
  • Remote

Posted on March 31, 2022

Our mission

To continue to be an innovative Figma design team and Webflow partner for world-class brands and agencies looking to collaborate on web experiences and empower teams along the way.

What we do

We partner with brands and agencies who want integrated design, low-code and engineering teams. We build innovative websites, prototypes and apps to help our customers provide meaningful digital experiences for their customers and teams.

How we work

We are a distributed team based all over the globe, from Canada, U.S., U.K., Germany to Portugal. We work 100% remotely from wherever we feel best. We always have and always will.

Role

  • Design reusable UI components for multiple breakpoints

  • Define and specify all required states of a component (eg. appearance on light / dark, interaction states, size and style variations)

  • Understand the foundations of a design system such as color, typography, accessibility standards, and how these elements work together to create a scalable platform

  • Work within an agile environment, collaborating closely with the developers and visual designers

  • Ensure that the quality of implementation of the product meets design requirements

  • Work with UX research and analytics to evaluate designs and incorporate findings, applying a test and learn approach

Skillset

  • Strong visual and design skills

  • Experience working with Figma and shared component libraries

  • Experience working with or contributing to a design system

  • Strong communication skills, to be able to clearly and concisely explain an idea

  • Ability to deliver a polished product / detail-oriented

Nice to haves

  • Motion design and animation knowledge and skills

  • Experience with or good understanding of front-end technology like HTML, CSS, and Javascript

  • Illustration skills or experience crafting icons or other similar graphical assets