We’re hiring on behalf of one of our leading clients in the digital transformation space! They’re looking for a Design Technologist who can bridge the gap between design and development—bringing high-fidelity UI concepts to life through production-ready code.
Role Overview
A Design Technologist in a design systems unit serves as a bridge between designers and developers—supporting both to build consistent, high-quality digital products across the organisation. Design system engineer acts as a workflow integrator, ensuring cohesion between design and engineering.
Ideal for someone who can take design ideas from prototypes through to production-ready code.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with designers to translate hight-fidelity UI designs into interactive, coded UI components.
- Build and maintain design-system components (React, Vue, Angular) ensuring design consistency across products.
- Develop accessible, performant, responsive interfaces (WCAG standards, internationalisation).
- Document design patterns, assist in creating/maintaining the style guide and code library.
- Document Design System components in Storybook.
- Work within agile methodologies, participate in Agile ceremonies across Tribes.
- Collaborate closely with front-end engineers to refine component, define and integrate design tokens and APIs.
Requirements & Skills
Technical Skills
- HTML5, CSS3 (SASS/LESS), JavaScript (ES6+) – solid foundation
- Familiarity with at least one modern UI framework or library (React/Vue/Angular)
- Build/design tooling: Storybook, Styleguidist, Figma‑to‑code plugins, Babel, Webpack
- Understanding of component architecture: theming, tokens, props API
- Accessibility (WCAG 2.0/2.1), responsive design, mobile-first
- Version control (GitHub)
- Agile/scrum experience
Design & UX Skills
- Proficient in Figma
- Strong sense of interaction, visual, and motion design with attention to detail
- UX fundamentals: user flows, accessibility, inclusive design
- Familiarity with ISO usability standards (ISO 9241) a plus
Soft Skills
- Excellent communication & cross-functional teamwork abilities
- Problem-solving mindset and attention to detail
- Analytical mindset: use data & feedback to iterate
- Self-starter, proactive in system improvements
Experience & Qualifications
- 2–5 years in front-end, product design, UX engineering or similar
- Experience working on or contributing to a design system
- Bachelor’s degree in HCI, interaction design, computer science, or related field preferred
Category
Specific Skills & Experience
- Languages - HTML5, CSS3/SASS, JS (ES6+)
- Frameworks - React, Vue, or Angular
- Design Tools - Figma, Sketch, Adobe Suite
- Prototyping - Storybook, prototypes to production level
- UX/Accessibility - WCAG 2.x, inclusive/principled design
- Collaboration - Agile, Git, design–dev hand-offs
- Soft Skills - Communication, problem-solving, UX empathy
