Senior Product Designer (Design Systems)

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid model requiring staff to work onsite 50% of the time

Company

hirify.global is a global news organisation delivering quality information and services worldwide.

What you will do

• Shape and evolve Origami’s shared foundations, components, guidance, and forward plan for FT product teams.
• Collaborate with designers, engineers, and product managers to identify product needs, design-system gaps, and practical solutions.
• Lead design from problem definition and exploration through prototyping, validation, and implementation across web and mobile.
• Evaluate technical feasibility with engineers and ensure designs become reliable, accessible, and high-quality implementations.
• Create documentation, guidance, and examples; support colleagues in adopting and contributing to Origami.
• Explore and test AI-assisted workflows for component development, documentation, prototyping, and product development, assessing quality and technical suitability.

Requirements

• Significant product design experience with strong visual design, interaction design, and prototyping skills.
• Experience creating, maintaining, or evolving design systems, reusable components, or shared patterns across products or teams.
• Portfolio demonstrating high-quality product design and design-systems work, including personal contribution and impact.
• Advanced Figma experience, including component libraries, variables, and design tokens.
• Experience building interactive prototypes using code, with working knowledge of HTML and CSS.
• Strong technical understanding and confidence collaborating with engineers on feasibility, implementation, and design trade-offs.
• Experience designing for web and mobile, understanding platform conventions and when different approaches are appropriate.
• Knowledge of accessibility principles and experience applying them to components, patterns, and digital experiences.
• Experience using or exploring AI-assisted design and development tools, with sound judgement about their opportunities and limitations.
• Experience leading cross-functional design work, navigating ambiguity, influencing decisions without formal authority, and communicating and documenting design decisions effectively.
• Collaborative, systems-oriented approach with the ability to help others understand and adopt shared design practices.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting design-system adoption across multiple product teams.
• Experience exploring how AI tools can use design-system guidance, components, or code to support product development.
• Experience evaluating design-system effectiveness through feedback, usage evidence, or measures of quality and adoption.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with 50% onsite attendance; flexible working requests are considered subject to role suitability.
• Generous annual leave, medical cover, inclusive parental leave, and subsidised gym membership.
• Opportunities to give back to the community in a collaborative and inclusive environment.
• Reasonable adjustments and personalisation are available during the application and interview process.

Hiring process

• Applications are reviewed by a member of the recruitment team rather than by AI.
• All application information must be authentic and accurately represent the candidate’s skills, experience, and qualifications; AI use during the process may be monitored.