Design Systems Designer
Esper is experiencing hyper growth! We’re the industry’s first DevOps SaaS platform designed to provide a simple, safe, and secure way for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications and manage smart Android devices. Our device infrastructure enables developer, mid-market orgs, and enterprise fleets of 100,000+ devices to deliver their software as a service. Esper has rapidly-growing global customer adoption among some of the world’s most innovative major brands in retail, hospitality, logistics, and healthcare.
About the Role
The Esper Product team is looking for a Design Systems Designer to help define and deliver software that empowers developers and companies to remotely scale and manage their mission-critical devices around the world.
Why This Role is Unique
As a Design Systems Designer at Esper, you will lead an integral part of our product design, working fluidly and collaboratively with those involved in product, design and engineering. Your primary responsibility will be to create and govern a library of branded components, along with detailed documentation to guide the future of the product design. Not only will you be helping to define delightful experiences for end users, you will play a key role in ensuring that product designers and front-end engineers ship high-quality work efficiently and consistently. This role will be well-suited for someone who has a particular interest in using design to help others do their best work, including designers and developers at Esper, Esper customers and our customers’ end users.
What You'll be Doing
- Creating a scalable product design system for both web-based and mobile experiences
- Oversee the governance of the design system to ensure it is being followed and implemented correctly across engineering, design and product teams
- Working cross-functionally with product, engineering, and other business partners to arrive at the best possible user experiences in collaboration with the product design team
- Writing documentation and providing guidance for how and why components, styles, and patterns are applied in code and design
- Designing high-fidelity flows for rapid prototyping
- Working closely with Engineering to ensure a high-quality implementation
- Become a member of our highly valued product design team
What We're Looking For
- Have 5+ years of industry experience as a User Experience Designer, User Interface Designer, Design System Designer or Product Designer
- Have established a product design system, including documenting UI styles (typography, color, spacing, object styles, animations), design patterns, components and defining states and interactions
- Have strong UI/visual design skills, and a high attention to detail—you understand how visual design and interaction design work together to make design clear and functional
- Communicate clearly and have a high degree of influence with all kinds of internal partners, including senior leadership
- Have demonstrated experience translating brand attributes and business goals into product functionality and visual design
- Have experience in an agile environment, collaborating with product managers and development teams who build iteratively
Projects you Could Work on
- Own the next evolution of the Esper Design System, including design patterns, interactions, components and documentation—a critical assignment to guide product design & engineering
- Be part of boosting design standards in the technical world of DevOps, raising the visibility of design as an invaluable business tool
- Account for a wide range of audience needs and conduct usability tests to validate product design decisions
Perks & Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- 401K with a company match that vests immediately
- Monthly health and wellness reimbursement
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options (medical and dependent)
- Generous parental leave and parental support benefits
- Unlimited time off policy with a mandatory 2 weeks time off (minimum)
- Catered lunch every day in the office
- Each new employee gets access to LinkedIn Learning, which is paid for by Esper because we want employees to continue to grow personally and professionally
- Ergonomics standup desks with 36” curved widescreen monitors for each employee
- Mac or PC, depending on your OS preference
- Free covered parking
- Team hikes and other events (e.g. mini-golf, etc.) on a monthly basis
What we think makes us special
Esper is a fast-growing, well-funded company where everyone matters and you can see your impact daily. We trust our teammates and offer intense ownership and therefore accountability. We’re inventing the future and building something special. The team really enjoys what we do and cares about your input. We don’t hire just to fill a spot, we want you to make a difference.
As you help us build this special company, Esper will take care of you. We offer flexible vacation, regular hack-days, competitive pay and benefits, and room for advancement. We hire capable veterans so we avoid the drama and trust in each other’s work. Our worldwide footprint mixes different cultures for a unique experience. We also like to have fun because we play just as hard as we work.