Sr System Designer

Role: Sr System Designer (161227-1)

Location: Pittsburgh, PA (Locals preferred) - Hybrid - 3 days in office, 2 remote)

Industry background: Banking/Finance

Function of the Group: Research, UX design/ UI Design, and strategy

Current initiatives/project(s) that this resource will be impacting:

Experience Design for C&IB, supports the digital design strategy and delivery for Pinnacle platform, web and mobile presence. (90% of time)

Research strategy and design for other C&IB areas, more short-term support/projects

Roles and Responsibilities:

Lead definition, evolution, & stewardship of component-based design system. Establish scalable, reusable design patterns & usage guidelines that bring consistency, coherence, & efficiency to our digital experiences.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define scalable patterns & components - design foundational interaction patterns, UI components, and structural layouts that scale across platforms and product teams.
• Codify usage rules & guidelines - document the intended usage, behaviors, states, & constraints for components and patterns. Establish guidance around when, how, and why to use specific system elements
• Ensure cross-team alignment - partner across larger UX and product teams to ensure adoption and alignment across parallel workstreams.

Basic Qualifications:

10+ years of experience in product design, UI/UX design, or systems design, ideally in a digital product environment. Demonstrated experience creating or contributing to a component-based design system used at scale.

Will work with developers on team to take widget and make standalone component to hand to development group

Must have technical skills (Min 10+yrs of exp required in all of the below skills)

• Development background
• Figma
• Jira
• Building component libraries and workflows
• HTML / CSS and understanding of modern layout including flexbox, grid, layering etc.
• Javascript (at some level), Typescript, Angular, Figma.
• Familiar with material framework, bootstrap, storybook, GIT are helpful
• Familiar testing ADA, unit testing (to a degree, but mostly regression testing).
• Needs to be a system thinker, have a strong sense of architecture and atomic design principles.
• There will be a focus on reuse, accessibility, performance, governance and minimalism.
• Definite skill at being a good communicator and storytelling because of how much cross functional interaction and collaboration they will have with PO, PM, BSA, QA, other devs.

Contact Information:

Feel free to reach out to me on Email: anjali08@kanakits.com