As a Senior Product Designer on the UI Systems team at Square, you will create components, libraries, and patterns and provide support for the central design system, Market. The Market Design System is used throughout all of our merchant- and customer-facing products and surface areas. The UI Systems team focuses on the functional layer of our design systems and how it extends our overall brand. You’ll collaborate closely with peer Product Designers, Brand Designers, Engineers and Technical Program Manager to work on initiatives to improve the experience for merchants using Square products as well as improving how product teams design and build day-to-day. Your designs will help unlock the potential of all product teams at Square through our design system. You will report to the Design Lead.
At least 8+ years of relevant professional experience, with 3+ years in building and maintaining design systems
You have a portfolio that shows design systems you have created or largely contributed to
Experience as a contributor to multiple high impact projects
Cross-platform experience that includes native mobile design systems
Accessibility design experience/familiarity
You can design flexible and hardworking components that can be built to scale across several internal teams
You enjoy socializing a design system across an internal organization. You care about partnering and collaborating effectively through documentation, office hours, and pairing with fellow designers
You have experience building clear processes of how to support partner teams in adopting and contributing to the design system
You care about your craft, and strive to improve quality of designs at scale
You have a technical understanding of how to design across various breakpoints, devices, and locales, and can bridge the gap between design and code
You can quickly iterate and communicate ideas across various levels of fidelity, and can receive and provide feedback constructively
You understand your way around code, even if a basic level
You’re passionate about creating inclusive, accessible products
You have experience creating engaging illustrations, icons and animations that bridge the brand identity, user experience and business needs