Granicus is looking for an energetic, outcome focused, Senior UI Designer to manage and grow our Design Systems. Working closely without team of UX Designers and Front-end Developers, reporting to the Director of UX Design.
The focus of this role is to craft, share, and safeguard the building blocks of the UIs of Granicus software from components to processes
What your impact will look like here
- You will be growing a very capable design system for one product, to one that works for six products, over ten engineering teams, and over five UX designers.
- As an experienced UI designer, you will be responsible for the user experience and
- visual design quality of the contents of the design system.
- As a systematic thinker and excellent communicator, you will implement design system
- processes and document and share updates to the design system.
You will be responsible for:
- Refreshing the existing design system structure and processes
- The quality of components
- Aligning with stakeholders on design system content
- Writing the design system content
- Checking that coded components match the designs
- Working with designers and developers to design and create components in
- Figma
- Working with developers create components in Storybook
- The speed of delivery of components
- Planning the delivery of components
Your days may typically consist of:
- Adding components to the design system in the documented source of truth and Figma
- Using your top-notch Figma skills to create responsive and props-based
- Components that work for developers and designers
- Working with Engineering to add components to Storybook
- Communicating updates to the cross-functional teams
- Managing expectations and stakeholders
You will love this job if you have
- A keen eye for detail
- Have a passion for simplifying complexity
- Enjoy sharing knowledge
- Adaptive communication style to suit different audiences
Required experience, knowledge, and skills:
- Over 2 years of experience in maintaining an enterprise software design system making components and templates, Documenting components, principles, requirements and working with effective processes
- Over3years of experience in enterprise software design in a large software company (Please note we are not looking for a designer from a mobile apps or websites background)
- Excellent understanding of the structure and popular patterns used in enterprise software
- Atomic design practitioner
- Understands how UI component sets work for designers and developers
- Industry leading,100% up-to-date, skills in Figma
- Excellent understanding of CSS
- Excellent eye for design
- Understanding of build effort for UIs and ability to balance quality and time
Good to have:
- Experience in stakeholder management and shaping processes in a software company
- Previous experience of designing with, or design systems using; Material-UI, Chakra or Amplify
- Design Degree, Bain UX, Graphic Design, or related area
Other:
- This position will have a 6-month probation period
- This role is subject to a background check
- This role may require domestic and/or international travel from time to time
- Shortlisted applicants will be required to showcase a portfolio of their previous work and demonstrate their knowledge and capabilities
- Candidates should be prepared to do a design walk through and task as part of the interview process
The Team
We area globally distributed workforce across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, India, Armenia, Australia, and New Zealand.
The Culture
At Granicus, we are building a transparent, inclusive, and safe space for everyone who wants to be a part of our journey. A few culture highlights include –
- Employee Resource Groups to encourage diverse voices
- Coffee with Mark sessions – Our employees get to interact with our CEO on very important and sometimes difficult issues ranging from mental health to work life balance and current affairs.
- Embracing diversity & fostering a culture of ideation, collaboration & meritocracy
- We bring in special guests from time to time to discuss issues that impact our employee population
The Company
Serving the People Who Serve the People
Granicus is driven by the excitement of building, implementing, and maintaining technology that is transforming the Govtech industry by bringing governments and its constituents together. We are on a mission to support our customers with meeting the needs of their communities and implementing our technology in ways that are equitable and inclusive. Granicus has consistently appeared on the GovTech 100 list over the past 5 years and has been recognized as the best companies to work on BuiltIn.
Over the last 25 years, we have served 5,500 federal, state, and local government agencies and more than 300 million citizen subscribers power an unmatched Subscriber Network that use our digital solutions to make the world a better place. With comprehensive cloud-based solutions for communications, government website design, meeting and agenda management software, records management, and digital services, Granicus empowers stronger relationships between government and residents across the U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. By simplifying interactions with residents, while disseminating critical information, Granicus brings governments closer to the people they serve—driving meaningful change for communities around the globe.
Want to know more? See more of what we do
here.
The Impact
We are proud to serve dynamic organizations around the globe that use our digital solutions to make the world a better place — quite literally. We have so many powerful success stories that illustrate how our solutions are impacting the world. See more of our impact
here.
The Process
- Assessment – Take a quick assessment.
- Phone screen – Speak to one of our talented recruiters to ensure this could be a fit.
- Hiring Manager/Panel interview – Talk to the hiring manager so they can learn more about you and you about Granicus. Meet more members on the team! Learn more and share more.
- Reference checks – Provide 2 references so we can hear about your awesomeness.
- Verbal offer – Let’s talk numbers, benefits, culture and answer any questions.
- Written offer – Sign a formal letter and get excited because we sure are!
Benefits at Granicus India
Along with the challenges of the job, Granicus offers employees an attractive benefits package which includes –
- Hospitalization Insurance Policy covering employees and their family members including parents
- All employees are covered under Personal Accident Insurance & Term Life Insurance policy
- All employees can avail annual health check facility
- Eligible for reimbursement of telephone and internet expenses
- Wellness Allowance to avail health club memberships and/or access to physical fitness centres
- Wellbeing Wednesdays which includes 1x global Unplug Day and 2x No Meeting Days every quarter
- Memberships for ‘meditation and mindfulness apps including on-demand mental health support 24/7
- Access to learning management system Say., LinkedIn Learning Premium account membership & many more
- Access to Rewards & recognition portal and quarterly recognition program
Security and Privacy Requirements
- Responsible for Granicus information security by appropriately preserving the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) of Granicus information assets in accordance with the company's information security program.
- Responsible for ensuring the data privacy of our employees and customers, their data, as well as taking all required privacy training in a timely manner, in accordance with company policies.
Granicus is committed to providing equal employment opportunities. All qualified applicants and employees will be considered for employment and advancement without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical or mental disability, age, genetic information, sexual or affectional orientation, marital status, status regarding public assistance, familial status, military or veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law.
