Senior UX Designer, Design Systems

About SimpliSafe

We’re a high-tech home security company passionate about protecting the life you’ve built and our mission of keeping Every Home Secure. And we’ve created a culture here that cares just as deeply about the career you’re building. Ours is a no-ego culture of collaboration and innovation where those seeking their next challenge can find big opportunities and make a huge impact on the lives of all those who we protect. We don’t just want you to work here. We want you to grow and thrive here. 

We’re embracing a hybrid work model that enables our teams to split their time between office and home. Hybrid for us means we expect our teams to come together in our state-of-the-art office on two core days, typically Tuesdays or Wednesdays and Thursdays, to work together in person, and teams can choose where they work for the remainder of the week. We all benefit from flexibility and use the best of both worlds to get our work done.

Why Are We Hiring?

Well, we’re growing and thriving. So, we need smart, talented, and humble people who share our values to join us as we disrupt the home security space and relentlessly pursue our mission of keeping Every Home Secure. 

SimpliSafe is seeking a Sr. UX Designer to lead and manage our design systems to join our growing UX Design and Research team within Product. In this role, you will work across the organization to evolve and maintain a comprehensive design system for internal and consumer products across web and mobile platforms working collaboratively with product, engineering, and other UX designers across multiple product areas to deliver engaging services across all platforms.

What You'll Do:

• Design mobile and web components and patterns in close collaboration with design and engineering teams, brand guidelines, and business requirements
• Work collaboratively with designers, content designers, researchers, product managers, developers, and stakeholders to define and develop our design system to meet the business's and user goals and drive adoption
• Maintain and improve the mobile and web component design libraries in Figma based on internal user feedback
• Stay on top of industry trends and best practices to evolve the design system
• Create detailed documentation to support the design and engineering use of the design system, including governance to uphold the quality, change management, QA, and release cycles
• Management of branching and tracking the development work in Figma for design handoff processes
• Lead and improve how our product teams design and build day-to-day using the design system
• Build accessibility into the creative design process and advocate for inclusive experiences across all platforms.

What You Need for Success:

• You are an expert with various design tools such as Figma, Zero Height, Storybook, etc.
• You are a design systems, visual design, interactions, and micro-animations expert.
• You love orchestrating the visual flow of UI content, using design fundamentals like typography, color, and iconography.
• You have deep experience designing for both consumer-facing and back-office products for iOS, Android, and web.
• You understand technical constraints, have coding experience, and can design iterative solutions to effectively partner with UX and engineering teams.
• You have experience with Design Ops orchestrating design teams, processes, and tools to amplify creativity and impact at scale.
• You are passionate about design as a craft and meticulous attention to detail driving what needs to be done, why, and the best way to do it.
• You are a strong communicator, generative, open to new ideas and diversity of thought.
• You have created products that have successfully shipped that need to evolve and be maintained.
• You must have an online portfolio that highlights your design thinking and expertise.

BONUS

• Degree in a design and/or human behavior-related field, such as Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial design, Architecture, graphic design, interaction design, Sociology, Communication, Information Science, Economics, or Computer Science.
• You understand that great user experiences go beyond the digital screen, and you have experience working with experiences at the intersection of hardware, software, and service design.

What Values You Share:

• Customer Obsessed: Building deep empathy for our customers, putting them at the core of our work, and developing strong, long-term relationships with them.
• Aim High: Always challenging ourselves and others to raise the bar.
• No Ego: Maintaining a “no job too small” attitude, and an open, inclusive and humble style.
• One Team: Taking a highly collaborative approach to achieving success.
• Lift As We Climb: Investing in developing others and helping others around us succeed.
• Lean & Nimble: Working with agility and efficiency to experiment in an often ambiguous environment.

We wholeheartedly embrace and actively seek applications from all individuals, no matter how they identify. We are committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we believe our work is enriched when we incorporate a multitude of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. We want everyone who works here to thrive and contribute to not only our mission of keeping every home secure, but also to making our workplace safe and supportive for others. If a reasonable accommodation may be needed to fully participate in the job application or interview process, to perform the essential functions of a position, or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact [email protected].