Designer - Design Systems; Midweight

Experience Designer – Design Systems (Midweight)

We are seeking a talented and passionate Experience Designer to join our Design System team. You will be instrumental in evolving and maintaining our multi‑brand design system, empowering product teams to build consistent, accessible, and delightful user experiences across Web, iOS, and Android platforms.

• Design and maintain reusable UI components, patterns and guidance for Web, iOS, and Android platforms.
• Continuously ensure that the design system is accessible, performative, and adheres to brand standards.
• Partner with design system engineers to ensure proper implementation and integration of design system components.
• Lead and facilitate UI audits, pattern consolidation, and design clean‑up, driving consistency across complex product spaces.
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution and improvement of the design system architecture.
• Maintain and gather feedback around the design token infrastructure.

• Work closely with Product Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers to understand needs and gather feedback to further improve the design system.
• Educate and advocate for the adoption of the design system across design and development teams.
• Facilitate workshops and training sessions to onboard new starters and keep the design community well informed of updates.
• Present design system updates and progress to stakeholders.

• Stay up to date with industry trends, best practices, and new technologies related to design systems.

Industry experience as a UX / UI Designer is essential. We are also looking for core technical skills and behaviours, including systems thinking, influence, adaptability, and strong interaction design.

• Experience working on a design system.
• Knowledge of inclusive design and digital accessibility.
• Strong systems thinking and interaction design skills.
• Influence and negotiation skills.
• Adaptability to changing priorities, complexities and unknowns.
• Confidence to influence and challenge stakeholders.
• Initiative and drive for change.
• Tailoring approaches for different audiences.
• Expert proficiency in Figma, especially with components, libraries, variables and tokens.

• Proficiency in crafting native app experiences for iOS and Android.
• Technical understanding of design systems and programming frameworks such as React, Tailwind, Jetpack Compose, Swift
  
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• Systems thinking – anticipate component evolution across platforms and deliver consistent, efficient solutions at scale.
• Cross‑functional communication and collaboration – share designs with technical and senior stakeholders.
• Proficient in Figma – understand components, variables, auto‑layout and libraries.
• Problem solving – identify inconsistencies, untangle complex challenges and propose scalable, accessible solutions prioritising user needs.

• A thriving design culture with open, collaborative feedback.
• A mature design system and set of standards.
• Access to research, accessibility, and UX copywriting expertise.

We offer a range of benefits including colleague discounts across our retail brands, a pension scheme, performance‑related bonus up to 10% of salary, paid holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days, season ticket loans, cycle‑to‑work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance, e‑learning and discounts from hundreds of retailers. Flexible working and up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.