[Remote] Sr. UX Designer - Design Systems (REMOTE)
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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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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