Sr. UX Designer - Design Systems (REMOTE)
About The Position
At Abercrombie & Fitch, we are 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 our digital ecosystem across global brands. As part of A&F’s Digital Product Design team, you’ll lead the evolution of our latest Design System, ensuring consistency, scalability, localization and accessibility across responsive web, native apps (iOS/Android), and emerging platforms. This role is highly collaborative, partnering with UX designers, engineers, product managers, and brand teams to deliver a token-driven, Figma-based system that powers seamless, inclusive experiences for millions of users worldwide.
Requirements
- 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.
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.
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!
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
