UX Designer, Design Systems

About the RoleAs a member of our Experience Team at Gap, Inc., you’ll shape how customers engage with our multi-billion-dollar portfolio of global brands.
In this role, you will independently partner with a cross-functional team in a fast-paced Agile environment, participating in every stage of the design and build process – from research, journey mapping, user flows, and exploratory design sprints to wireframing, prototyping, delivery of high-fidelity designs, and iteration with product and engineering through the development process. You have excellent interaction and visual design skills and can communicate design thinking and rationale, leading and influencing during complex design discussions with partners and leaders.
Experience with retail, e-commerce, transactional, rewards or loyalty programs, and design systems is a plus. A passion for fantastic customer experience and empathy is a must.
A resume and portfolio are required upon application to this position. Be prepared to present and speak to previous and relevant work during interviews.What You'll Do

• Working largely independently, contribute to the UX/UI design of 2-3 projects at a time by optimizing for usability, preference, and ease of adoption.

• Ensure designs and user interfaces communicate consistent, effective experiences and messages across all platforms/breakpoints while aligning with the core strategy.

• Advocate for and participate in user testing where appropriate, co-crafting the learning agenda with our research and product team.

• Facilitate workshops and design sprints with project teams and stakeholders to explore problem spaces, identify pain points, and create alignment; produce summarizing documents for executive share-out where necessary.

• Independently partner with product, engineering, and business partners to evaluate the right solution based on feasibility, impact, and budget.

• Escalate to your design manager when necessary with solutions and recommendations for the path forward.

• Maintain a growth mindset, leveraging soft skills to give and receive feedback graciously and translate critique into a productive direction for the team to act upon

Who You Are

• 3 to 5 years of experience designing for web and mobile, with a strong portfolio demonstrating your experience creating user-centered design solutions.

• Minimum of 1+ years of experience maintaining, contributing to, and managing design systems, in both code and Figma; bonus for experience establishing a new design system and socializing with a broad team of designers and partners

• Fluent in Visual (UI) and Interaction Design (UX) - able to synthesize custom elements from an existing design system with native mobile patterns to deliver an effective combination of consistency, familiarity, brand expression, and ease of use.

• Comfortable critiquing proposed and implemented work, providing candid feedback to fellow designers and developers, holding the cross-functional team accountable to delivering the application as designed, or arriving at compromises that keep the customer experience at the forefront.

• Familiar with gathering end-user input and conducting or participating in usability testing and needs-finding research.

• Detail-oriented with excellent work-file organization and respect for sustainable but evolving design processes.

• Excellent communicator who has the conviction to champion your point of view but can also successfully collaborate with others.