Design System Lead- Remote

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Summary

The Design System Lead will help drive the vision, project management of a design system of visual style, UI components, and other design concerns. The ideal candidate will take a systems-mindset to build and integrate consistent, efficient components across the product portfolio. Emphasis will be on the complete systems lifecycle, from establishing a practice and vision that endures to design, build, document, and maintain a library used by many product teams.

• REMOTE work from HOME*

Essential Functions

• Be responsible for identifying business, design, and development needs, defining parameters for design system components, documentation, and governance, and leading teams to create and deploy functional and durable design elements.+ Work with the development team on implementation of a React-based design system.+ Document design system components to be implemented in the UX team's workstream for design consistency.+ Collaborate with other designers and cross-departmentally with product/development teams.+ Extract meaning from user research data, making it easy to consume to move forward in the design process.+ Clearly articulate and present concepts to the larger product team and other stakeholders.

Additional Responsibilities

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills and Abilities

• Hands-on experience contributing to design systems including building adoption, guiding contribution and maintaining component libraries.+ Expert knowledge working in design tools such as Invision, Sketch, Figma or similar.+ Skilled at anticipating and designing for user needs by incorporating research, strategy and analytics.+ Strong visual/verbal communicator with strong presentation, negotiation, collaboration and interpersonal skills
• Able to provide a portfolio of design projects based on web / mobile applications.+ Demonstrated history of acquiring user data (e.g., conducting usability studies, performing user research) is a plus.+ Rapid wireframing and UI prototyping to produce interactive experiences for usability testing.

Qualifications

• H.S. Diploma required. Vocational training in related field and/or experience with industry tools.+ Bachelor's degree in psychology, interaction design, visual design, human-computer interaction (HCI), computer science or UX degree preferred.+ Five (5) years or more directly contributing to design and front-end components in React and Figma.+ Five (5) years or more proven experience showing clear understanding of the intersection between user needs, technology requirements, and business goals.+ Five (5) years or more gathering and evaluating user requirements, in collaboration with product managers and engineer.

Travel: 10-20%

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Applicants from California, Colorado, Hawaii, New Jersey, New York City, and Washington:

Salary is determined based on internal equity; internal salary ranges; market

data/ranges; applicant's skills; prior relevant experience; certain degrees or

certifications, etc. The salary for this position ranges from $90K to $115K

Ryder offers comprehensive health and welfare benefits, to include medical,

prescription, dental, vision, life insurance and disability insurance options, as well as paid time off for vacation, illness, bereavement, family and parental leave, and a tax advantaged 401(k) retirement savings plan

Job Category: Digital Marketing & Demand Generation

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