Senior UI Designer - Digital Design System

We’re looking for a passionate, skilled, and ambitious Senior UI Designer to join our Design System team.

As a Senior UI Designer at the UK’s largest supermarket, you’ll be working on a complex, sophisticated design system that supports and works hand in hand with our product design teams. You’ll discover new opportunities, creating intuitive and effective solutions that improve every stage of our user’s design workflow from Figma to engineering handover. You’ll balance business objectives with our colleagues’ expectations, developing components and Figma library solutions that surpass both. Our Digital Design System is central to our design vision at Tesco. So, you’ll need true expertise working on all aspects of one. You’ll know how to fail fast, get back up, and try again.

Audiences don't get bigger or more diverse than this. So, you’ll really need to know your onions. That includes a big appetite for the latest design and engineering technology, AI, prototyping and testing, and data and analytics. Collaboration mixed with expertise and insight is the recipe for successful design. So, you’ll be working with some of the finest UX and UI designers, researchers, UX writers, service designers, data and analytics experts, product managers and developers.

Here’s a taste of what you can expect:

You’ll join a business that values your expertise, experience, and insight. That nurtures your personal and career growth, with opportunities for every stage of your journey. You’ll play a crucial role in a hardworking team comprised of individuals from a diverse set of backgrounds who share your determination. You'll enjoy a hybrid role that creates the perfect work/life balance, helping you be yourself both professionally and personally. And a benefits package that’s more than competitive.

• Collaborate with your team members to design and maintain our libraries using variants, tokens, and other organising and scaling principles resulting in flexible, reusable components for our platform libraries that are suitable for both designers to use in Figma and that is technically feasible for our engineers.
• Implement and maintain procedures to ensure the continuous relevance and efficient user experience of the design framework, covering community support, research, and assessing its efficiency.
• Collaborate closely with the product teams to implement the develop framework in all UI projects and **improve** our Digital Design System in line with user requirements.
• Work together with teams responsible for products to identify chances for streamlining compositions across products in different business sectors to uphold the lean and effective build system.
• Deliver valuable, high-quality, and consistent work without sacrificing speed.
• Help plan tasks against team objectives, strategic drivers, and key projects.
• Develop and maintain end user documentation detailing the standards and guidelines of our component library to act as a reference for our clientele.
• Create and maintain engineering handover documentation. Work closely with engineering teams to understand feasibility of design ideas and ensure review of design implementation at key stages of the development cycle.
• Deeply understand design to development handover and can support other teams in this area.
• Advocate for the Digital Design Framework among builders in different teams, guiding them in using the framework to construct outstanding work.
• Use Figma and Engineering analytics to help advise your work.
• Promote inclusive design practices and deliver accessible (AA)designs and components.
• Own all end-to-end UI process activities relevant to the design system workflow.
• Collaborate with different departments within product teams, working closely with build experts, researchers, content creators, engineers, product managers, data analysts, and business partners to explore, implement, test, and improve the creation process.
• Advocate for human-centred development within and beyond your team.
• Know how to validate your designs via A/B testing, un-moderated, usability testing, etc. and understand how product teams do this and its impact on the design system.
• Facilitate workshops, run appropriate conceptualisation and participatory design sessions.
• Assist other fields in understanding the importance of the build system in developing project outcomes for outstanding products.
• Continuously seek to improve design processes inside and outside of your team to gain efficiency, remove obstacles, and simplify workflows.
• Provide feedback to other designers to help strengthen your team and Tesco as a whole.
• Help your teammates build expertise, strong decision-making skills, and compassion for our users.
• Adopt opportunities to line manage other designers and help with their learning and development.
• Work with the Design Manager to cultivate a positive, supportive, and inclusive team culture.