Designer IV– Senior UX Designer (Design Systems)

Beast Code•Fort Walton Beach, FL

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

We're looking for a Senior-Level Design Systems UX Designer to help shape and scale our design system across a growing suite of products. Someone who is passionate about defining patterns, reducing design fragmentation and creating systems that help teams move faster and build better experiences. This role requires strong design expertise and the ability to collaborate closely across teams. You’ll be instrumental in evolving our design system, defining patterns and guidelines that scale and helping guide how the system is applied across our products. You’ll also mentor designers and partner with stakeholders to ensure consistent, high-quality user experiences and support the adoption of a design system that grows with our products

Requirements

5-8+ years of UX, Product or UI Design
Strong experience working with or contributing to a design system
Proficiency in Figma + other modern front-end technologies
Strong understanding of interaction design, visual design and accessibility
Experience rolling out design system updates to multiple teams and supporting adoption
Comfortable operating in engineering workflows (version control, PRs/MRs, etc.)
Experience collaborating across design and engineering teams

Nice To Haves

Experience with design system governance at enterprise scale
Familiarity with design system tooling (Storybook, Chromatic, token management platforms)
Experience building internal tooling to improve design-engineering collaboration
Basic knowledge of JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue, etc.)

Responsibilities

Build, maintain, and evolve the design and development of Beast Code’s design system and standards, working alongside contributing designers and engineers
Ensure design decisions are clearly defined, documented and consistently applied across products
Maintain alignment between design intent and product deliverables
Define and document component anatomy, variants, states, and behaviors
Collaborate with and support designers to evolve our long-term product vision, design systems, and internal design collaboration process
Unblock product teams during system adoption
Write clear, practical documentation that helps designers understand, adopt and use the design system correctly
Champion accessibility across all components, ensuring WCAG compliance in real products
Serve as a mentor for designers in system thinking and best practices, supporting how they contribute to and use the design system
Partner with engineering teams to ensure shared understanding of system practices, resources, and updates
Lead knowledge sharing efforts and being an advocate for the design system with internal and external engineers