Senior/Lead Design System Designer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Senior/Lead Design System Designer (Fintech): Auditing, refining, and scaling an existing design system for a cross-product e-banking portal with an accent on robustness, extensibility, and alignment with long-term product strategy. Focus on defining architecture, maintaining visual guidelines, and building responsive component libraries in close collaboration with engineering teams.

Location: Fully Remote (Poland)

Company

The customer is a regulated digital asset bank operating in Europe, focusing on secure and compliant financial services related to digital assets for institutional and private clients.

What you will do

• Define and maintain the architecture and long-term vision of the design system to ensure scalability and efficiency.
• Develop and maintain visual guidelines including typography, color, spacing, and grids.
• Build, document, and maintain responsive component libraries based on MUI.
• Establish processes for system updates, quality control, and adoption across teams.
• Collaborate closely with UX leadership and front-end engineering teams.
• Conduct design reviews and promote best practices for system usage.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in product design (UI/UX).
• 5+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling design systems at an organizational level.
• Proven experience evolving design systems for products with a large user base.
• Expert-level proficiency in Figma, including components, tokens, variants, auto-layouts, and plugins.
• Deep understanding of design tokens and component architecture and their connection to code.
• Experience integrating design systems with front-end frameworks such as Storybook, React, or MUI.
• Knowledge of WCAG and accessibility standards and their implementation in components.
• Strong documentation skills for organizing and maintaining component libraries.
• English: Upper-Intermediate required.
• Candidate must be located in Poland.

Nice to have

• Experience with multi-brand or cross-platform design systems.
• Background in regulated digital finance or similar domains.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on building a unified cross-product e-banking portal, aiming to be state-of-the-art.
• Collaborate closely with design and front-end engineering teams.
• Opportunity to work for a regulated digital asset bank intersecting traditional finance and digital technologies.
• Emphasis on strategic and systems-level thinking.
• Strong focus on efficiency, scalability, and maintainability in design decisions.
• Full-time employment.