Design Systems Designer

We are currently seeking a Designer with strong UX and UI skills and a demonstrable history of working in building and shaping design systems, as well as a history of bringing design thinking insight to deliver compelling user experiences and user interfaces to join our growing UX organization. You will be joining a team of passionate UX professionals, working collectively to elevate design thinking and user-centered design across our products.

As a Designer on the Design System team, you’ll work closely with other designers, developers, accessibility specialists, and researchers to develop and grow our new design system ecosystem.

About the Role

As our Design Systems Designer, you will:

• Create and build: Rapidly iterate through journey maps, storyboards, user flows, sketches, wireframes, and other design artefacts to effectively communicate interaction and a dynamic content strategy. Have deep experience with responsive UI design methodology and processes (user-centered and iterative design). Create prototypes for UX research testing with industry-leading tools. This will also be a hands-on role for creating the building blocks of our product component libraries and design tokens across the board, collaborating very closely with other designers from across the organization.
• Operationalise: Come to the role ready to operationalise the plan for a unified design system across our web and app experiences. Success for the person coming into this role will be determined by their ability to get the design system broadly adopted by the design and engineering teams in partnership with their engineering counterpart.
• Be part of a collaborative team: Work closely with the UX Designers, Accessibility Specialists and UX Researchers in a collaborative team-oriented environment to create new products, features and functionality. Advocate for the user’s needs while developing features that align to the needs of the user.
• Be an Effective Facilitator: Share ideas, participate in peer reviews, and exhibit strong listening skills. You justify and articulate design decisions during design reviews. You lead brainstorming and sketching sessions with product teams and can share outcomes using your excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Be Curious & Innovative: Continuously update yourself with next-generation user experiences, technology, and contribute to process development practices. Turn user research and usability feedback into easy-to-use solutions. Gather, analyze, and synthesize UX needs for complex product and user requirements.

About You

You’re a fit for this role if you have:

Basic qualifications:

• Experience with creating or contributing to a corporate/enterprise design system
• 3+ years design experience creating simple solutions for complex challenges
• 1+ year in a design system environment
• Experience in responsive design with case studies in your portfolio
• Experience in complex application design
• Experience with Accessibility guidelines (WCAG, AODA)
• Experience with industry leading design tools (Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD)
• Strong portfolio of work that illustrates your process, your level of craft and the results you have driven
• Familiarity with Agile development
• Strong time-management, multi-tasking and prioritization skills
• Understand the importance of teamwork and can leave your ego at the door. 
• A willingness to grow with the role and make it your own. 
• Comfortable working in a complex and dynamic environment, juggling multiple priorities, and interacting with people at all levels of the organization and across multiple functions. 

Preferred qualifications:

• BA/BS in graphic design, fine art, visual communications, HCI or related field (or equivalent industry training /experience)
• Familiarity with: Web standards (W3C and 508)
• Familiarity with front-end development best practices (HTML, CSS, JS)

The Reuters Design Organisation is a growing team of global UX professionals, all excited to be part of a collaborative team environment. Team culture is a big deal to us, and we make a lot of effort to ensure that we can do our day-to-day work in a safe environment of curiosity, learning and collective sharing of ideas. We celebrate our differences and hold space for continuous dialogue on how we can best work together and understand each other. Reuters is globally recognised for equality, diversity, inclusion and flexibility, and we embrace these as core principles of our team.  

The interview process for successful candidates (subject to change depending on circumstances):

We will aim to complete the interview process in 5 key stages:

• Recruiter call
• Hiring Manager Interview: 45 minutes
• Stakeholder Interviews: 1 x 60 minutes or 2 x 30 minutes
• Take-home simple UX task or 30 minute interview to share problem-solving skills for UX task.
• Hiring manager final interview: 30 minutes

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

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