Product Designer (Design System)
Fresha
Product, Design
London, UK
Posted on Friday, April 26, 2024
About Fresha
Fresha is the leading marketplace platform for beauty & wellness trusted by millions of consumers and businesses worldwide.
Fresha is used by 110,000+ businesses and 450,000+ stylists and professionals worldwide, processing over 1 billion appointments to date.
The company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom, with global offices located in New York City, Vancouver, Sydney, Dubai, Riyadh, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Pristina.
Fresha allows consumers to discover, book and pay for beauty and wellness appointments with local businesses via its marketplace, while beauty and wellness businesses and professionals use an all-in-one platform to manage their entire operations with an intuitive subscription-free business software and financial technology solutions.
Fresha’s ecosystem gives merchants everything they need to run their business seamlessly by facilitating appointment bookings, point-of-sale, customer records management, marketing automation, loyalty, beauty products inventory and team management.
The consumer marketplace unlocks revenue potential for partner businesses by leveraging the power of online bookings and automated marketing through mobile apps and advanced integrations with major tech brands including Instagram, Facebook and Google.
Role overview
Given our exciting and progressive growth plans, we are looking for an exceptional Product Designer (Design System) to come and join our global business.
Working collaboratively with the Product Design Team, you will be accountable for ensuring best-in-class front-end design across our suite of products consisting of both web and native technologies.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to work in a fast-paced and changing environment, who likes to work autonomously, enjoys a challenge and wants to make an impact.
We pride ourselves on being a world-class Design team, so we set a high bar in inviting new talent to join us. We seek people who will help drive our business forward and challenge norms by striving for more. Aside from your skills and experience, we’re most interested in your growth mindset and development potential.
What you will be doing
- Supporting - Support design systems across all of our products with a focus on the user experience.
- Collaboration - Pair with product designers to collect, componentise, and document requirements for new and existing components.
- Integrate - Collaborate with engineers to create consistent, accessible components and patterns.
- Creating - Create complex components in Figma with systemised tokens, variants, and properties.
- Organisation - Organise and manage Figma libraries for our Design organisation.
- Documentation - Write, edit, and illustrate documentation for our Design System assets.
- Guidance - Pair with product team members to understand and provide guidance around new or existing UI or components.
- Advocating - Be an articulate ambassador for Design Systems.
- Knowledge - Learn and retain knowledge of teams’ projects and historical component guidance to provide assistance to teams across the organisation.
- Awareness - Stay up on Design System industry innovations and technical improvements.
This list is not exhaustive and there may be other activities you are required to deliver.
To foster a collaborative environment that thrives on face-to-face interactions and teamwork all Fresha employees work from the office four days per week, with the flexibility to work remotely one day each week.
What we are looking for
- 3-6+ years of professional design related experience. We prefer but do not require experience working in a design system role.
- A strong visual aesthetic and design point of view, exampled in a rich portfolio.
- Experience working on products or apps which have been used in consumer or professional experiences.
- Full understanding of what a design system is and how to properly build and maintain it from a component perspective.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Experience creating and maintaining strong relationships with multiple stakeholders across a variety of disciplines.
- Informed and strong opinions, loosely held.
- A practitioner of user-centric processes and design thinking principles.
- Extremely comfortable with Figma (including variants, tokens, libraries, prototyping).
- An understanding of the differences between web and Native architectures and design requirements.
- Enough knowledge of code to participate in component creation.
- Experience documenting design guidelines.
- Knowledge of accessibility best practices for web and mobile applications.
- Willingness to learn as well as teach.
- Have a working knowledge of other existing industry design systems.
- Understanding of balancing business requirements vs user needs.
At Fresha, we value passion and potential as much as specific skills. If you're enthusiastic and eager to learn, we encourage you to apply, even if you don't meet every listed requirement. We believe in fostering growth and providing the support needed for you to excel in your role.
Interview process
- Screen Call - Video-call with a member from the Talent Team (30min)
- Presentation - In-person presentation with Product Design Team (90min)
- Culture fit - Video-cal with Deputy CPO (30min)
We aim to complete the entire interview process and deliver feedback within 2 weeks.
Every job application received is reviewed manually by our talent team. While we strive to assess applications within 7 days, the sheer volume of talented individuals expressing interest may occasionally extend this timeframe
Inclusive workforce
At Fresha, we are creating a culture where individuals of all backgrounds feel comfortable.
We want all Fresha people to feel included and truly empowered to contribute fully to our vision and goals. Everyone who applies will receive fair consideration for employment.
We do not discriminate based on race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.
If you have any accessibility requirements that would make you more comfortable during the interview process and/or once you join, please let us know so that we can support you.