UI Designer, Design Systems (6-month contract, Bangkok-based)

Getting to know our Agoda Design Team:

Embark on a journey with the Agoda Design Team, a vibrant community of product designers crafting innovative solutions from the heart of Bangkok, Thailand. As a pivotal force in our product-driven company, we collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to unravel customer challenges, shaping workflows, interactions, and visual interfaces. Whether you’re honing your craft, expanding your skillset, or stepping into a leadership role, now is the time to join a team that’s both scrappy and hands-on yet influential enough to drive change and shape product strategy. Be a part of Agoda’s Design team and contribute to unlocking the world for our global community of travelers.

About our Design Systems Team:

ADS is a multi-platform design system, and we provide the building blocks for Agoda and our white-label partners to build better products faster. We are a cross-functional team of designers, engineers, QA, accessibility experts and a product manager.

UI Designer, Design System at Agoda is responsible for:

You will be a key contributor to help us scale ADS to become a best in class design system. You’ll help our team lay scalable foundations, evolve our components and expand into new areas that can help Agoda unlock quality and efficiency in the organization. You will drive and continuously improve the collaboration with cross functional partners within our team, as well as makers across other product teams. Your work will impact 1000+ makers at Agoda and millions of customers around the globe. You’ll be expected to influence our strategy to ensure that the system evolves and continue to play a key role in how we build products at Agoda. You will ship well-crafted and accessible designs that help our stakeholders across design & engineering ship products with improved efficiency, quality & building products our users love.

Day to day, it looks like: 

• Expertise: You’ll bring your expertise in building design systems that balance flexibility, scalability, and ease of use. Your designs will scale across multiple platforms and use cases. You apply systems thinking to create reusable patterns that drive consistency. You consider competing needs and dependencies across teams to craft effective solutions.
• Advocating for Quality: You thrive in the details and are an expert in best practices, creating clean, modern UI systems. You push for accessibility and craft elegant solutions that work well for users of different abilities across various types of devices. You consider technical opportunities to drive delightful designs, whilst balancing the trade-offs of implementation cost and long-term maintenance. You build a deep understanding of our customers deeply,  and use data to guide decisions and measure success.
• Collaborate & Evangelize: In this highly matrixed role, you will work proactively across teams to uncover needs, drive alignment, and generate enthusiasm for design system adoption. You establish and enforce healthy processes, driving alignment across teams with a clear impact. You will also coach mid-level and junior designers to become better design systems designers.

UI Designer, Design System at Agoda means you have a track record of:

• 1-3 years experience working in an explicit design systems role
• User-Centered Design approach, designs interfaces that priorities user needs, behaviors, and Accessibility
• Visual Design Skills, has mastery of typography, color theory, layout, and visual hierarchy.
• Prototyping and Wireframing, ability to builds wireframe and prototypes to communicate design ideas effectively
• Interaction Design experience, creating engaging experiences with animations, transitions, and micro-interactions
• Excellent proficiency with relevant tools, standards and frameworks (Figma, Design Tokens, WCAG etc.)
• Experience working with creative directors, motion designers, and illustrators as well as product designers, engineers, and product managers
• Knowledge of Design Systems, develops and maintains design systems for consistency across platforms
• High-level understanding or experience with frontend development (CSS, React, SwiftUI, Jetpack compose etc.)  
• Problem-Solving and Critical Thinking: Analyses user pain points and proposes innovative, business-aligned solutions

Qualities we value in designers:

• Past projects that showcase major systems evolution or expansion (such as redesigns, theming, modes, platforms, or a11y/i18n)
• Prior experience designing for consumer-facing products
• Visual design skills

Join us in shaping the future of travel experiences at Agoda!

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