Middle Product Designer (Design Systems)

About the role

This role focuses on the architecture and maintenance of GR8 Tech's design system, which underpins their B2B iGaming platforms. The designer will be responsible for building and refining components, widgets, and primitives within Figma, utilizing advanced features like variants and auto layout. A key aspect is managing the variable and token architecture to support multi-brand themes and regularly auditing the library to reduce design debt and plan for deprecations.

A significant part of the role involves close collaboration with front-end developers. The designer will review implemented components to ensure visual fidelity with Figma designs and align naming conventions between design libraries and front-end code, such as Storybook. Defining and documenting design patterns, usage guidelines, and responsive behaviors for various breakpoints is also crucial to ensure consistent implementation.

Beyond system development, the role includes enabling other designers and ensuring system adoption. This involves onboarding product and graphic designers, reviewing their usage, and identifying component gaps. The designer will also establish processes for collecting system requests, evaluating new pattern proposals, and communicating design system decisions to internal stakeholders to maintain alignment and adherence to core standards.

Skills that matter here

• Figma: This role requires expert-level mastery of Figma for building and maintaining design system components, including advanced features like variants, design tokens, and multi-brand theming.
• HTML: A strong technical understanding of HTML is needed to effectively communicate with front-end developers and ensure design system components are accurately translated into code.
• CSS: Technical literacy in CSS is essential for aligning design system properties and states with front-end code and understanding responsive design principles.
• JSX: Familiarity with JSX or Storybook pages is required to review built components and ensure consistency between design specifications and developer implementations.
• WCAG AA: The role involves enforcing WCAG AA accessibility fundamentals, such as contrast, focus states, and keyboard navigation, across all digital platforms.

Who this role suits

• A designer with at least one year of dedicated experience building and maintaining a production design system used by multiple teams.
• Someone who is technically literate, capable of understanding front-end code, and can engage in constructive conversations with developers.
• An individual who excels at documenting design patterns and usage guidelines, ensuring clarity and consistency for other designers and developers.
• A communicator who can transparently articulate design system decisions and facilitate alignment across various internal stakeholders.

From the employer

What you’ll drive:

• System Architecture & Tokens

Build and maintain components, widgets, and primitives in Figma using advanced variants, properties, auto layout, and constraints.

Own the variable and token architecture across primitive, semantic, and component layers, including multi-brand theme modes.

Audit the library regularly to manage versioning, plan deprecations, and systematically reduce design debt.

• Developer Alignment & Implementation

Partner with front-end developers during implementation, reviewing built components to ensure code accurately matches Figma designs.

Align component properties, states, and naming conventions directly between Figma libraries and front-end code (e.g., Storybook).

Define and document design patterns, usage guidelines, and responsive behavior rules to ensure seamless multi-breakpoint execution.

• Adoption, Enablement & Operations

Support product and graphic designers in adopting the system through onboarding, usage reviews, and component gap analysis.

Establish clear processes for collecting system requests, evaluating new pattern proposals, and resolving library friction.

Communicate the reasoning behind system decisions transparently, keeping all internal stakeholders aligned around core standards.

• Product Design & Research

Design end-to-end features, flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes to solve real product problems and keep the system grounded.

Validate design hypotheses alongside UX Researchers and Product Managers using usability tests, interviews, and user feedback.

Enforce WCAG AA accessibility fundamentals (contrast, focus states, keyboard navigation, hit areas) across all digital platforms.

What makes you a GR8 fit:

• Must-have
• Ukrainian/Russian proficiency is required.
• 3+ years of experience as a Product Designer, with at least 1 year dedicated to building and maintaining a production design system used by other teams.
• Expert-level mastery of Figma, including advanced component architecture, sets, variable layers, design tokens, and multi-brand theming.
• Strong technical literacy—ability to read HTML/CSS/JSX or Storybook pages and hold constructive technical conversations with front-end developers.
• Practical understanding of responsive design best practices across various breakpoints and platform constraints.
• Familiarity with WCAG AA accessibility standards (focus states, contrast ratios, keyboard navigation).
• Proven ability to conduct usability research, iterate on prototypes, and define requirements based on team briefs.
• Exceptional communication skills to articulate system decisions, facilitate cross-team alignment, and manage feature requests diplomatically.

• Nice-to-have
• Hands-on experience working in or closely alongside a dedicated Design Ops function.
• Familiarity with visual design principles and brand consistency across marketing and product touchpoints.
• Track record of establishing deprecation strategies and managing large-scale UI kit migrations.

Why you’ll love working here:

• Benefits
• Cafeteria — annual budget you allocate to: Sports • Medical • Mental health • Home office • Languages.
• Paid maternity/paternity leave + monthly childcare allowance.
• 20+ vacation days, unlimited sick leave, emergency time off.
• Remote-first + tech support + coworking compensation.
• Team events (online/offline/offsite).
• Learning culture with internal courses + growth programs.

• Our culture & core values:

GR8_TECH culture is how we win — through trust, ownership, and a growth mindset. We move fast, stay curious, and keep it real, with open feedback, room to experiment, and a team that’s got your back.

• FUELLED BY TRUST: we’re open, honest, and have each other’s backs.
• OWN YOUR GAME: we take initiative and own what we do.
• ACCELER8: we move fast, focus smart, and keep it simple.
• CHALLENGE ACCEPTED: we grow through challenges and stay curious.
• BULLETPROOF: we’re resilient, ready, and always have a plan.