Lead Design Technologist
Design Systems
Posted on 1/24/2023
INACTIVE
Flatiron Health

1,001-5,000 employees

Improving healthcare by learning from the experience of cancer patients
Company Overview
Flatiron seeks to identify and solve problems that drive work that moves the needle for customers and patients. In short, they seek to learn and improve cancer research from each patient.
Data & Analytics

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

$2.2B

Founded

2012

Headquarters

New York, New York

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

-2%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

19%
Locations
Remote • New York, NY, USA
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Desired Skills
JavaScript
UI/UX Design
React.js
Product Design
HTML/CSS
CategoriesNew
Software Engineering
Requirements
  • You have prior experience working on a design systems team or as an influential contributor to a company's design system
  • You have mentored or managed others with a desire to help uplevel their critical thinking and ability to prioritize and deliver work effectively and efficiently
  • You are a systems thinker, with an appetite to dig into complex UI problems and an ability to break them down into small, modular pieces
  • You have the ability to design UI that is simple and usable yet flexible enough to serve a variety of use cases
  • You have deep expertise in design collaboration tools and managing shared design resources in a tool such as Figma
  • You have an understanding of clean, modern web markup in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and experience with front-end frameworks like React
  • You are an excellent communicator, capable of presenting your ideas clearly and in the context of user behavior and technical sustainability
  • You value outcome over output and understand the role of an iterative, collaborative design process to measure progress toward solving cross-platform problems
Responsibilities
  • Communicate and prioritize Design Systems work that has the greatest impact across our product suite, continually shaping our backlog
  • Mentor and manage other Design Technologists on the team
  • Partner with Designers, Design Technologists, and Engineers to understand user needs across interfaces, with a focus on ways in which we can deliver scalable and reusable solutions that can be impactful across projects, delivering interaction patterns that reflect the Flatiron brand
  • Contribute and manage the centralized Design System through guidelines, documentation, process, and code reviews
  • Collaborate with engineers to develop and evolve our standards for high-quality front-end code
  • In partnership with the Product Design and Brand Design teams, shape the holistic vision of user interfaces in Flatiron products with an eye towards consistency, flexibility, and scalability
  • Design, prototype, and test UI components that solve for a wide variety of use cases in a consistent and flexible way
  • Improve designer workflows by managing shared tools and libraries and creating more efficient processes
  • Write new and refactor existing components that are modular, extensible, testable, and accessible