Senior Product Designer - Design System

Serko is a cutting-edge tech platform in global business travel & expense technology. When you join Serko, you become part of a team of passionate travellers and technologists bringing people together, using the world's leading business travel marketplace. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer, we embrace the richness of diversity, showing up authentically to create a positive impact.

Requirements

In this role, you will work closely with a dedicated Design System team of passionate and highly skilled front-end engineers and designers. You will establish foundational patterns, UI components, tools, and documentation that will enable Serko’s pursuit of a new and exciting chapter for our enterprise products.

You will bring a systematic and scaleable design approach to your work and your understanding of technical requirements will help bridge the gap between design and engineering.

What you will be doing

• Create foundational components, interaction patterns and documentation that empower other designers to do their best work.
• Shape and maintain a robust and structured Figma library; from foundational elements to complex components.
• Providing support, training, guidance, and feedback to other teams.
• Collaborate with other product designers to ensure a consistent and cohesive experience across our products.

What you will bring

• Proven project and work experience in design systems
• You thrive in a collaborative, team environment
• Experience working with, building and maintaining a Design System
• You’ll have a basic understanding of front-end coding
• Passion for design systems and infectious energy when it comes to communicating the value of a design system to the wider organisation
• Knowledge of technical constraints and guidelines that apply to various platforms, including web, iOS and Android
• You are a Figma power-user
• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) and are comfortable liaising with internal and external stakeholders
• Excellent time management skills and be able to use your initiative when it comes to prioritising based on impact and value
• You are comfortable with rapid change and the dynamic environments that come with working in a high-growth tech company
• You have a portfolio that demonstrates exemplary foundational design skills (typography, colour, layout, interactions)

Benefits

At Serko, we aim to create a place where people can come and do their best work. This means you will be operating in an environment with great tools and support to enable you to perform at the highest level of your abilities, producing high-quality and delivering innovative and efficient results. Our people are fully engaged, continuously improving, and encouraged to make an impact.

Some of the benefits of working at Serko are:

• A competitive base salary
• KiwiSaver covered with employee contribution matched up to 3% of salary, and life insurance.
• Health & Wellbeing: discounted Southern Cross Health Insurance, access to confidential support, guidance and counselling service, wellbeing and voluntary leave and free flu shots.
• Focus on development: access to a learning & development platform, committed budget and opportunity for you to own your career pathways.