Principal Designer - Design systems

Gen is a global company powering Digital Freedom through consumer brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG, ReputationDefender, and CCleaner. Our combined heritage is rooted in providing safety for the first digital generations. We bring leading technology solutions in cybersecurity, privacy and identity protection to more than 500 million users in 150 countries so they can live their digital lives safely, privately, and confidently today and for generations to come. We're always looking for smart, fearless, and dedicated people. Together, we have collective passion and a big vision to power Digital Freedom by protecting consumers and giving them control of their digital lives.

Principal, Product Design – Design Systems

Location - This is a flexible hybrid position - 3-days per week office based in London or Prague.

We’re the Product Design team at Gen. We work on the world’s best digital security products - including Norton, Avast and AVG. Our family of brands harness the latest technology to create cybersecurity, identity protection and online privacy products that are chosen and trusted by hundreds of millions of users around the world.

As a leader within the Design System team, you will drive the creation and evolution of Gen’s multi-brand, platform agnostic design system, aligning to Gen’s design principles and accessibility standards. You will help set the bar for design quality and innovation across the organisation.

This role requires a systematic approach to solution design, combined with strong product design skills, a strong sense of aesthetic, a passion for complex problem solving, experience with the latest accessibility standards, and outstanding leadership and interpersonal skills.

What you’ll be doing

• Evolving and scaling Gen’s product design language to create a modern user experience that aligns with each of Gen’s brand identities
• Partnering with Engineering counterparts to establish how we successfully create and maintain a token architecture to meet the specific needs of each of our brands
• Leading design craft critiques and reviews to drive and elevate design quality across the organisation, and being hands on when needed to articulate ideas and concepts 
• Continuously conducting end-to-end audits of our UI, visuals and design system, come up with designs to solve for discrepancies and push the visual design system forward, while considering each brand and Mac, iOS, Android, Windows design guidelines.

• Building successful engagement models that empower Product teams to contribute back to the design system 
• Staying up to date with industry standards, emerging technologies and design system best practices to continuously enhance the design system
• Advocating and socialising the benefits and importance of a robust design system with our partners and senior leaders

About you

• 8+ years of experience working in user experience, product, or relevant design field 
• 4+ years’ experience working in an explicit design systems role 
• You have exceptional design craft with a strong portfolio in visual interface design, showcasing expertise in scaling visual and motion design concepts across different applications and platforms
• You have solid knowledge of the foundations of engineering principles for best practices with design systems and tokenization
• You thrive in the details and are an expert in best practices, creating clean, modern UI systems
• You are a passionate and effective advocate for design with non-design audiences
• You use analytics and data to drive design decision making to best serve our customers

• You consider technical opportunities to drive good designs, whilst balancing the trade-offs of implementation cost and long-term maintenance
• You have experience working with content designers, motion designers, and illustrators as well as UX, UI, growth and product designers, engineers, and product managers

Benefits:

• Annual bonus scheme
• Unlimited PTO (paid time off), flexible working hours
• The chance to join a major global tech company listed on the S&P 500.
• Opportunity to learn and work with the best in the Digital Security industry.
• Cafeteria points are provided by Benefit Plus (meal plan, pension insurance, travel, free time activities, multisport card, and much more).
• Tuition reimbursement for job-related courses
• Learning & Development plan.
• Sustainable home improvement bonus
• Mac/Windows laptop and mobile phone

Gen is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible environment for all employees. All employment decisions are based on merit, experience, and business needs, without regard to race, color, national origin, age, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth or related medical conditions), genetic information, disability (physical or mental), medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, military or veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local law. Gen strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination based on such protected characteristics and seeks to recruit the most talented candidates from diverse cultures and backgrounds. 

We also consider employment-qualified individuals with arrest and conviction records. In addition, we will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. Learn more about pay transparency. 

Gen complies with all anti-discrimination laws. 

To conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.