Design System Architect Lead

$166,400 - $176,800/Yr

Aquent - Atlanta, GA

posted about 2 months ago

Full-time - Mid Level
Remote - Atlanta, GA
Administrative and Support Services

About the position

We are looking for an experienced UX Architect to support the Design Systems team of an industry-leading tech client for Aquent Studios. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in shaping the foundation of the information architecture (IA) across the product suite. Your expertise in content modeling, strategy, both frontend and backend structures, and design systems will be crucial in informing a scalable and cohesive user journey. You will work with the internal Design Strategy team to ensure their vision can be seamlessly implemented through a scalable and cohesive user journey. Additionally, you will collaborate with backend engineers, Design Systems engineers, and the Design Systems leadership to ensure feasibility for implementation. Your role will involve conducting a detailed audit and analysis of the end-to-end product and content experience from both the backend and front-end perspective. You will develop comprehensive content models that capture the structure, relationships, and taxonomies of the digital content, ensuring optimal content organization that aligns with the product and technology strategy. Collaborating with the Design Strategy and UX research teams, you will gather insights and feedback to inform content modeling, and in some cases, you may conduct unmoderated research yourself. You will translate research findings into actionable design recommendations and strategies, leveraging content modeling techniques to create logical structures to organize the product's content, defining relationships between different pieces of information and how they all connect. As a Design Systems Architect, you will architect the design system to be responsive and uphold accessibility standards. You will collaborate closely with developers to ensure seamless implementation and integration, evolving design principles, guidelines, and best practices to ensure a cohesive and consistent user experience across all touch-points while keeping up with industry trends. Your responsibilities will also include driving the evolution and governance of our design systems, ensuring consistency and scalability across platforms and products, and enabling flexibility for experimentation while planning for future iterations.

Responsibilities

  • Support the Design Systems team in shaping the information architecture across the product suite.
  • Collaborate with the internal Design Strategy team to implement their vision through a cohesive user journey.
  • Conduct audits and analyses of the end-to-end product and content experience from both backend and frontend perspectives.
  • Develop comprehensive content models that capture the structure, relationships, and taxonomies of digital content.
  • Ensure optimal content organization that aligns with product and technology strategy.
  • Collaborate with Design Strategy and UX research teams to gather insights and feedback for content modeling.
  • Translate research findings into actionable design recommendations and strategies.
  • Leverage content modeling techniques to create logical structures for organizing product content.
  • Design intuitive information architecture that facilitates seamless navigation and content discoverability.
  • Create an end-to-end sitemap of all app and web pages.
  • Create information hierarchy to strategically organize and prioritize page content.
  • Create wireframes and low-fidelity prototypes for internal UX teams as architectural references.
  • Architect the design system to be responsive and uphold accessibility standards.
  • Collaborate closely with developers for seamless implementation and integration of design systems.
  • Evolve design principles, guidelines, and best practices for a consistent user experience.
  • Drive the evolution and governance of design systems for consistency and scalability across platforms.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), User Experience Design, or a related field.
  • Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.
  • Proficiency in object-oriented design as a UX Architect, Content Architect, Information Architect, or similar role.
  • Strong background in content modeling and design systems.
  • Deep understanding of user-centered design principles, design patterns, methodologies, and best practices.
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with attention to detail.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, able to articulate complex concepts in non-technical language.
  • Proficiency in wire-framing, prototyping, and design tools such as Figma, Sketch, and Principle.

Nice-to-haves

  • Proficient in creating and maintaining design systems, including component libraries and usage guidelines.
  • Proficient in moderated research tools like usertesting.com.
  • Enjoys reading and occasionally writing technical guidelines for non-technical audiences.
  • Knowledge of coding and development practices is a plus, with some front-end development skills (HTML, CSS, Javascript, UIKit, Compose) being beneficial.
  • Passion for staying up-to-date with the latest trends, techniques, and technologies in user experience design.

Benefits

  • Medical insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • 401k with 50% matching
  • Paid time off (PTO)
  • Paid holidays
  • Flexible learning opportunities
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