Design System Specialist

About the role

We’re looking for an experienced Design System Specialist to join a leading digital experience and innovation team, helping establish and scale a design system that will be used across multiple digital products and transformation programmes. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who sits at the intersection of UX/UI design and front‑end development and understands what it takes to turn a design system into a genuinely scalable product — not simply a Figma component library.

Key responsibilities

• Create, maintain and govern a comprehensive design system covering foundations, patterns, components, documentation and usage guidelines.
• Build and manage scalable Figma libraries and reusable components.
• Define and maintain design tokens for colour, typography, spacing, themes and other foundational properties.
• Establish an automated design‑token pipeline linking design and development environments.
• Partner with front‑end developers to build and maintain a coded component library using Storybook.
• Drive adoption of the design system across teams and continuously evolve it for scalability and consistency.

Required profile

• Proven hands‑on experience building, scaling or governing enterprise‑level design systems.
• Ability to operate across both design and technical sides, bridging designers and developers.
• Experience establishing automated design‑token pipelines and working with coded component libraries.

Required skills

• Figma
• Design Systems
• Component Libraries
• Design Tokens
• Storybook
• Accessibility
• Responsive Design
• Design‑to‑Code
• Versioning
• Documentation
• Design System Architecture