Position: Product Designer
Company: Piano
Category: Design
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2022-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

Our design system is a common visual language and library of components used by feature designers to advance the capabilities of our expansive product portfolio. 
The lead designer will collaborate with feature designers to ensure that all interfaces are built with smart, sustainable, responsive, pixel-perfect, and developer-ready components. You will also work on innovative features at the platform level, core functionality such as global navigation, landing experiences, object libraries, and more.
At Piano, we believe that our product experience is the brand experience — to that end, our designers are key stakeholders of not only our product experience, but also our brand identity and international market appeal.

**Primary responsibilities**

* Continually drive forward the holistic identity, sophistication, character, and recurring patterns of our brand and our overall design system.
* Set the standard of excellence in design and maintain it throughout every phase of a project. Collaborate closely with fellow designers and other product creatives by utilizing the latest technologies and software. Work closely with other disciplinary leads to ensure the integrity and solidarity of design implementation.
* Create and maintain detailed workflows and processes for working within the design system, creating new components, pushing updates, etc.
* Work with product managers, strategists, business analysts, and fellow designers to understand and translate challenging business requirements into incredibly sophisticated interfaces.
* Discover, conceptualize, and fully form the complete design vision for platform-level features, interface elements, interaction patterns, and more.
* Continually push the envelope by seeking radically new ways of solving problems both new and old, familiar and unfamiliar.
* Lead the design and evolution of the core components, styles, elements, visual assets and tools that make up our design system.

**The ideal candidate**

* Has a proven track record in designing and maintaining design systems for product teams.
* Has at least 2-3 years of product design experience in consumer or enterprise software.
* Has strong experience in Figma, as well as the Adobe Creative Suite.
* Can intuitively weave new technologies, emerging design and interaction trends, and timeless design principles together.
* Knows the rules, but knows when and how to use them, bend, break, or rewrite them entirely in the pursuit of new and innovative solutions.
* Has an eye and an intuition for what “feels right” in the absence of objectivity.
* Has either an interest or a talent in ancillary skillsets: 3D, motion graphics, programming, prototyping, or generative/procedural design.
* Excellent interpersonal, communication, organizational, and analytical skills.
* Can simultaneously think about the big picture and all of the little details.
* Can present, articulate, defend, and critique your ideas, concepts, and solutions — as well as those of your team.