Contract Digital Product Designer (Design Systems)
Location: Remote, GMT timezone
Department Product Design
Employment Type: Contract (B2B)
Contract Length: 3 months
About YLD:Our goal is to help our clients keep moving forward. We work with them to build the skills and capabilities they need to stay ahead of the competition, and we know our success only happens when they succeed. We’re a team of curious, talented people, and we’re committed to making YLD a place where great people want to work, grow, and stay.
We’re a remote-first consultancy specialising in software engineering, product design, and data. Our teams are based across London, Lisbon, and Porto, and we create digital solutions that continue to deliver value long after our work is done.
About the role:As a Digital Product Designer consultant at YLD, you’ll collaborate with client teams to design and deliver innovative digital products. We’re looking for someone curious, passionate, and driven — a designer who thrives on understanding users, solving complex problems, and turning insights into elegant, scalable solutions. You should have experience crafting intuitive interfaces, building cohesive design systems, and communicating ideas clearly across disciplines.
- Experience in UX Design, Product Strategy, UI / Interaction Design
- Experience with animation and incorporating it into UI is very much welcomed
- Experience working with, or good knowledge of implementing web accessibility, would also be a big bonus
- Coding skills / ability would be a benefit, but is in no way essential
- Experience working with Zeroheight and Storybook very welcome
- Significant experience in Design Systems and UI design
- Are confident with creating UI components independently to craft a reusable design systems
Non-technical competencies:
- You are happy to collaborate with both more senior and junior people to establish a design language
- Enjoy transforming complex concepts into simple and easy-to-use experiences
- Happily participate in all phases of product design: Research, Sketching, Wireframing, UI Design, Prototyping, User Testing
- Love working with other experienced designers and learning from them as well as sharing your own knowledge
- Love working alongside front-end developers and being a part of a cross-functional team
- Believe that product, design and engineering are closely connected and work best when collaborating together
- Care about accessibility and creating products that are inclusive to all people
- Are very hands-on
- Feel comfortable with moving at a fast pace with your team
- Believe that learning and self-development never end
- Want to bring your drive, passion and experience to our work and processes
- Are comfortable working either in a remote environment, or surrounded by your colleagues in the office.
What we'd like to see from you:
- A portfolio (pdf, presentation or website) demonstrating critical thinking, creativity and visual design
- CV outlining any professional experience and creative training/education, incl. any kind of official UX / UI training that you may have
- All written documents must be sent in English
As well as the chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people, you’ll also get:
- The chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people and to develop and grow your skills in a fast-moving business
Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:
- 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
- Interview & Portfolio Review with Head of Product Design and one Senior Designer (~1h30)
- Call with Client Partner of the Project (15-30 min)
We live and breathe our values, and know you will too:
- Growing every day
- Including everyone
- Relationships built on honesty and ethics
- Inspiring solutions
- Winning together
We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity in all its forms. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability. We also offer a remote-first working environment, with flexible working and work–life balance as standard for all employees.
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What We Do
With offices in London, Lisbon, and Porto, YLD is a product design and software engineering consultancy specialising in customer experience and disruptive technologies. We were among the first adopters of innovative technologies like Node.js, React.js, React Native, Kubernetes, and GraphQL, which are now staples for many businesses. YLD was also an early adopter of Design Systems as a service and founded Design Systems London, a non-profit community focused on design and product. We leave your teams and tech in a better space by curating bespoke teams of cross-functional experts in software engineering, architecture, DevOps, delivery, design, product and data science to work alongside your teams through close collaboration and, where needed, pair programming or technical training. We drive rapid iteration towards key business objectives, vision and chosen metrics, creating a long-standing product culture and delivery capability in each piece of work. We’ve helped companies like Bulb, Uphold, NewDay, GoDaddy, CondeNast, and many others, achieve technical product excellence. As a result, we enable organisations, regardless of industry, to become their most successful by creating and nurturing a culture that embraces experimentation and learning that lasts beyond the partnership. We are committed to the Open Source community, with almost 10,000 contributions across 500 open source projects. Collective contributions result in more robust, innovative and faster solutions, allowing open source communities to review the code and propose improvements that increase security and reliability. We are also actively engaged in numerous engineering and design communities, supporting and organising the likes of ReactJS Girls and Design Systems London with both online and in-person events and conferences
