Job Description
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. is a leading global retailer serving millions of customers across digital and in-store touchpoints. The Senior UX Designer – Design Systems plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of the digital ecosystem across global brands, leading the evolution of the Design System to ensure consistency, scalability, and accessibility across various platforms.
- Responsibilities
- Evolve the Design System: Define visual language, interaction patterns, and component standards leveraging Figma libraries, design tokens, and variable-based theming for multi-platform scalability
- Implement a sophisticated token architecture: Drive adoption of semantic tokens for style foundations to ensure consistency across web and native environments
- Collaborate with engineering: Partner with developers to integrate tokens into codebases and ensure parity between design and production using tools like Figma Rest API and Storybook
- Maintain robust documentation: Create clear, accessible guidelines for components, patterns, and usage principles in Figma
- Champion accessibility and inclusivity: Validate components against WCAG standards and ensure global usability
- Mentor and foster design system culture: Host office hours, tutorials, and workshops to teach best practices for implementing the Design System in their workflows and designs
- Foster design education and community building: Create learning resources, internal documentation, and lead initiatives that promote a culture of design excellence across the organization
- Advocate for design maturity: Present new component logic, advise on native and custom patterns to stakeholders, socialize updates, and mentor designers on system best practices
- Stay ahead of trends: Continuously research emerging tools (e.g., AI-assisted design, variable fonts, advanced prototyping, MCP servers) to keep the system future-ready
- Skills
- Bachelor's in Design, HCI, or equivalent experience
- 5 years minimum in digital product design, with a strong portfolio showcasing design system principles across responsive web and native apps
- Expertise in Figma: Advanced use of variables, component properties, variants, auto-layout, Dev Mode and token plugins
- Familiarity with design-to-code workflows, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and frameworks like React, AEM, SwiftUI, and Kotlin
- Experience with design tokens, variable theming, usage of native components and cross-platform component architecture
- Strong understanding of Agile and Design Thinking methodologies
- Ability to synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights into scalable design solutions
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills in a remote environment
- Proficiency in mentoring and teaching others: Skilled at guiding designers through design system adoption and best practices, fostering growth and knowledge-sharing across teams
- Benefits
- Incentive bonus program
- 401(K) savings plan with company match
- Annual companywide review process
- Flexible spending accounts
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Life and disability insurance
- Associate assistance program
- Paid parental and adoption leave
- Access to fertility and adoption benefits through Carrot
- Access to mental health and wellness app, Headspace
- Paid Caregiver Leave
- Mobile Stipend
- Paid time off and one paid volunteer day per year, allowing you to give back to your community
- Work from anywhere (Mondays and Fridays are “work from anywhere” days for most roles and six work from anywhere weeks per year)
- Seven associate wellness half days per year
- Merchandise discount on all of our brands
- Opportunities for career advancement, we believe in promoting from within
- Access to multiple Associate Resource Groups
- Global team of people who will celebrate you for being YOU!
- Company Overview
- Abercrombie & Fitch Co. It was founded in 1892, and is headquartered in New Albany, Ohio, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://abercrombie.com.
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