Production Designer - Facebook Design System

Meta Platforms, Inc.•New York, NY

36d

About The Position

Design Systems is a team of ~50 people reporting into the Foundation pillar. We are experienced systems designers, working on the functionality and performance of the design library and corresponding tools we offer. We ensure product teams have the most accurate and functional design system possible so that every design file, every design conversation and decision is relevant and meaningful to the Facebook app and it's users.

Requirements

5+ years' relevant design experience
Experience working on design systems, toolkit development and stewardship
Experience in Figma, limitations, and execution
Experience Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.)
Experience with file management and versioning (Dropbox, Google Drive, GitHub)
Experience training others and scaling the organization/product/team knowledge base
Experience with Apple Keynote and Google Slides
Experience designing native platforms (iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows) as well as web for both mobile and desktop
Familiar with HTML/CSS/Basic Markup
Demonstrated experience in a highly detail-oriented and a process forward environment
Experience thriving in the face of rapidly shifting priorities and occasional project ambiguity

Nice To Haves

Experienced using and maintaining a task system for the intake and tracking of work
Interested in the code side of components or experienced shipping code diffs
Experience supporting a large design system (100> designers)
Familiarity with branching and merging work flows
Demonstrated prototyping skillset
Previous experience building a design system supporting 100> designers
Experience communicating ideas and present well in order to gain consensus on new ideas and processes
Experience advocating for design systems teams, and interested in nurturing partnerships with product teams

Responsibilities

Organize, maintain, and distribute a large library of files
Create, revise, and maintain individual component files
Provide detailed design specs for existing components
Update and maintain design system component documentation
Help product designers explore new variants for existing components
Help develop and maintain both team and cross-functional processes
Update and maintain templates for key product screens and flows
Create, organize, track, and assign tasks (passing design specs to engineers, updating Design Kit and other internal tools, etc.)
Troubleshoot issues with design files (layer structure/organization)
Provide help/guidance in relevant support groups
Conduct extensive design audits (iOS/Android/Web, screenshots/video recordings)