Staff Product Designer, Design Systems

$167,000 - $251,000/Yr

GrubHub - New York, NY

Full-time - Senior

New York, NY

Food Services and Drinking Places

About the position

Grubhub is seeking a talented Staff Product Designer to join our Design Systems team, where you will play a crucial role in evolving and maintaining Cookbook, Grubhub's comprehensive design system. This position is integral to empowering design and product teams to create high-quality, consistent experiences more efficiently. You will help define the vision for the design system and uphold the highest standards of design quality across the organization. Your work will involve creating designs, specifications, and documentation for new components and patterns that cater to diverse user experiences, including consumers, drivers, and restaurants. In this role, you will collaborate closely with product designers, engineers, and other stakeholders to understand user needs and business goals, ensuring that the design system supports the organization's objectives. You will also work with product, design, and engineering leadership to identify and prioritize product areas in need of component discovery, setting the vision and quality bar for the design system. Building strong working relationships and continuously championing Cookbook across the business will be key to your success. Your responsibilities will include refining and enhancing the design system by incorporating feedback and staying current with design trends and best practices. You will build and maintain Figma libraries of Cookbook components, ensuring they utilize the latest features, and guide and support designers in using these components effectively. Additionally, you will maintain and improve component documentation and design guidelines, partner with engineering counterparts to ensure consistent execution of design ideas across iOS, Android, and Web platforms, and collaborate with Design Systems leadership to define frameworks, workflows, and best practices for design system processes. Moreover, you will work with the marketing team to ensure consistency with the brand's look and feel, enhance documentation and governance efforts to ensure the design system's scalability and consistency, and help build and maintain an effective onboarding program for designers, engineers, and product managers.

Responsibilities

• Create designs, specifications, and documentation for new components and patterns that serve diverse user experiences, including consumers, drivers, and restaurants.
• Work closely with product designers, engineers, and other stakeholders to understand user needs and business goals, ensuring the design system supports the organization's objectives.
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering leadership to identify and prioritize product areas in need of component discovery, setting the vision and quality bar for the design system.
• Foster strong working relationships and continuously champion Cookbook across the business.
• Refine and enhance the design system by incorporating feedback and staying current with design trends and best practices.
• Build and maintain Figma libraries of Cookbook components, ensuring they utilize the latest features.
• Guide and support designers in using Cookbook components effectively.
• Maintain and improve component documentation and design guidelines.
• Partner with engineering counterparts to ensure consistent execution of design ideas across iOS, Android, and Web platforms.
• Work with Design Systems leadership to define frameworks, workflows, and best practices for design system processes.
• Collaborate with Design Systems leadership to build and maintain an effective onboarding program for designers, engineers, and product managers.
• Work with the marketing team to ensure consistency with the brand's look and feel.
• Enhance documentation and governance efforts to ensure the design system's scalability and consistency.

Requirements

• Minimum of 6 years of experience contributing to and maintaining a design system.
• Strong UX/UI design skills with a portfolio showcasing beautiful craftsmanship and competence in typography, color, iconography, and animation.
• Deep understanding of native mobile and responsive design methodologies and patterns.
• High level of expertise with Figma.
• Confidence to move projects forward independently while synthesizing feedback from various teams and functions.
• Ability to collaborate closely with engineers and discuss technical details.
• Ability to research, analyze, and make decisions based on multiple sources, including usability best practices, user research, feedback from product designers, A/B testing, analytics, and other design systems.
• Acute self-awareness and deep empathy for Grubhub's customers, as well as for the designers, engineers, and product managers you'll work with.

Benefits

• Flexible PTO allowing employees to recharge.
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401k matching.
• Employee network groups and paid parental leave.
• Generous compensation package with eligibility for incentives, bonuses, commission, or RSUs.
• Weekly Grubhub credit for free meals to support local restaurants.
• Paid time off each year to support social causes through the Grubhub Community Fund.