Senior Principal Product Designer - Design systems

Location: Greater London

** Senior Principal Product Designer - Design systems (Open)– Global Product Design Org
***
* Location:

** London Office (near Waterloo station) - Hybrid 3 days weekly  
* Please attach link to portfolio on CV.
* We’re more than just a company; we’re a global leader in digital safety. With a strong commitment to ensuring that everyone can navigate the digital world securely, we unite the best minds and cutting-edge technology through our family of brands:
** Norton, Avast, Life Lock, Avira, AVG, Reputation Defender**, and
** CCleaner**. Together, we protect over 500 million people worldwide.
** How We Work
** Our hybrid work model gives us the face-to-face time to have creative conversations, meaningful meetings, make quick decisions, and build relationships. At the same time, it offers flexibility you need to focus and do your best work.

We’re the Product Design team  work on the world’s best digital security products - including Norton, Avast and AVG. Our family of brands harness the latest technology to create cybersecurity, identity protection and online privacy products that are chosen and trusted by hundreds of millions of users around the world.

As a leader within the Design System team, you will drive the creation and evolution of Gen’s multi-brand, platform agnostic design system, aligning to Gen’s design principles and accessibility standards. You will help set the bar for design quality and innovation across the organisation.

This role requires a systematic approach to solution design, combined with strong product design skills, a strong sense of aesthetic, a passion for complex problem solving, experience with the latest accessibility standards, and outstanding leadership and interpersonal skills.
** What you’ll be doing
*** Evolving and scaling Gen’s product design language to create a modern user experience that aligns with each of Gen’s brand identities
* Partnering with Engineering counterparts to establish how we successfully create and maintain a token architecture to meet the specific needs of each of our brands
* Leading design craft critiques and reviews to drive and elevate design quality across the organisation, and being hands on when needed to articulate ideas and concepts
* Continuously conducting end-to-end audits of our UI, visuals and design system, come up with designs to solve for discrepancies and push the visual design system forward, while considering each brand and Mac, iOS, Android, Windows design guidelines.
* Building successful engagement models that empower Product teams to contribute back to the design system
* Staying up to date with industry standards, emerging technologies and design system best practices to continuously enhance the design system
* Advocating and socialising the benefits and importance of a robust design system with our partners and senior leaders
** About you
*** 8+ years of experience working in user experience, product, or relevant design field
* 4+ years’ experience working in an explicit design systems role
* You have exceptional design craft with a strong portfolio in visual interface design, showcasing expertise in scaling visual and motion design concepts across different applications and platforms
* You have solid knowledge of the foundations of engineering principles for best practices with design systems and tokenization
* You thrive in the details and are an expert in best practices, creating clean, modern UI systems
* You are a passionate and effective advocate for design with non-design audiences
* You use analytics and data to drive design decision making to best serve our customers
* You consider technical opportunities to drive good designs, whilst balancing the trade-offs of implementation cost and long-term maintenance
* You have experience working with content designers, motion designers, and illustrators as well as UX, UI, growth and product designers, engineers, and product managers
** Benefits:
*** Annual bonus scheme
* Pension and health insurance
* Unlimited PTO (paid time off), flexible working hours
* The chance to join a major global tech company listed on the S&P 500.
* Opportunity to learn and work with the best in the Digital…