Aquent Studios x Adobe is a custom-built creative agency partnership that provides scalability with world-class talent to Adobe’s in-house studio and web team. This collaboration creates exciting opportunities to work with Aquent Studios and impact millions of customers, showcasing Adobe’s products via innovative storytelling and unique visual experiences.
Job Description: UX Designer, Consonant
We’re looking for a UX Designer on the Aquent Studios team to support Adobe’s Consonant Team. This UX Designer can look at the big picture from a user experience, product technology and business standpoint, and is unafraid to step outside the box to deliver compelling user experiences on web properties. The ideal designer brings strong experience creating design systems, most preferably in Figma, but experience in larger scale design systems such as Polaris will also be given strong consideration. This designer should also possess strong strategic, creative, and planning skills that enable them to effectively communicate, negotiate and drive design solutions to all company web experiences.
What you’ll do:
Envision and create a design system (primarily in Figma). You may, on occasion, need to interact with Adobe XD as well.
Work closely with and support the UX/Web Design Teams and dev/engineering teams, across multiple CMS environments
Work closely with content strategists and product managers to ensure what we’re building is usable
Help development teams create components by ensuring its built according to design and interaction specifications
Maintain the design system, create, and update documentation, and library components
Help establish design standards and principles accompanying the design system for scalability, efficiency, and consistency
Evaluate and improve usability and accessibility of components, and be a champion for the user
Improve the design to development handoff process
Occasionally conduct/participate in research that is relevant to building the design system
Uphold a high standard for design excellence, and contribute to raising the bar for design at our company
Participate in our design community
What you need to succeed:
Very clear demonstrable experience building design systems, component libraries, and/or UI Kits (if you cannot show this, please do not apply).
4+ years working in a digital design profession as a UX designer, UI designer, interaction designer, product designer, or similar
End-to-end design skills including very strong graphic/UI/visual design skills
Bachelor’s degree HCI or design field, or equivalent work experience.
Very knowledgeable of user-centric processes and design thinking principles
Experienced and highly knowledgeable about differences in designing for multiple platforms, devices, screen sizes, pwa, etc.
Experience creating and maintaining clean design system documentation
Mastery of standard design tools (Figma, Sketch, Adobe CS & XD)
Solid understanding of design theory (typography, color, grid, etc.)
Knowledge of accessibility standards/patterns and designing for accessibility
Experience (or at least familiarity) front-end web development
Excellent communication & collaboration skills
Excellent creative and critical thinking skills.
Comfortable working with virtual teams across multiple time zones and geographies
Able to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
Early adopter who enjoys staying current on technology, design, and keenly aware of trends
Portfolio with work samples must be included.