Senior UI/UX Designer

Senior UX/UI Designer — Design Systems

This is a pivotal role for a designer who thinks in systems. As Cyncly's Senior UX/UI Designer — Design Systems, you will lead the creation and stewardship of a unified design language across our global product portfolio. You will work in close partnership with the Head of UX Design, product designers, and engineering teams to build a design system that scales — one that is component-rich, token-driven, accessible by default, and genuinely adopted across the business.

This is a hands-on role with strategic reach. You will be crafting components yourself, defining usage standards, and advocating for design system adoption while influencing the wider product experience. You will champion consistency and quality without sacrificing the flexibility individual product teams need to move fast.

Key Position Responsibilities Include:

• Own the end-to-end design and evolution of Cyncly's design system — from foundations (colour, typography, spacing, iconography, and motion) through to complex interactive component patterns.
• Build and maintain a scalable token architecture that bridges design and engineering, ensuring parity between Figma component libraries and front-end implementation.
• Define and document component specifications, usage guidelines, accessibility requirements, and interaction patterns in a format engineering teams can act on directly.
• Partner with front-end engineers to deliver design system components that meet WCAG 2.1 AA standards and are framework-agnostic or aligned to Cyncly's chosen tech stack.
• Audit existing product UIs across the portfolio to identify inconsistencies, establish a component inventory, and create a prioritised roadmap for system coverage.
• Collaborate with product designers across squads to gather requirements, validate new patterns, and ensure the system grows through real product needs rather than in isolation.
• Establish governance processes — including contribution models, versioning, deprecation workflows, and change communication — so the system remains trusted and maintainable at scale.
• Champion accessibility and inclusive design throughout the system, ensuring that compliance is built in at the component level, not bolted on after the fact.
• Evangelise the design system internally — running enablement sessions, creating Figma documentation, and supporting designers and developers in adopting the system effectively.
• As the team grows, help define the design systems function — contributing to hiring decisions, mentoring junior designers, and shaping how design quality is measured across Cyncly.

Qualifications:

A degree in a relevant field such as Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related discipline is preferred. Equivalent professional experience demonstrating the same depth of knowledge will equally be considered.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 5–8 years of UX/UI design experience, with at least 3 years in a dedicated design systems or design infrastructure role, ideally within a B2B SaaS or enterprise software environment.
• Demonstrable experience building and scaling a design system from early foundations — including component libraries, token systems, and contribution frameworks.
• Expert-level proficiency in Figma, including component variants, auto-layout, design tokens (via Variables or third-party plugins), interactive prototyping, and library management.
• Strong understanding of front-end implementation constraints — comfortable working directly with engineers using HTML, CSS, and component-based frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, or Web Components).
• Solid working knowledge of WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards and the ability to embed accessible design patterns into system components at the specification stage.
• Experience establishing governance processes for a design system — versioning, deprecation, contribution guidelines, and change communication.
• Skilled at documenting design intent clearly: writing usage guidelines, annotation specs, and decision rationale that engineering teams can act on without ambiguity.
• Experience conducting design audits, building component inventories, and producing prioritised system roadmaps aligned to product and business needs.
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills — able to bring designers and engineers along on system decisions without formal authority over product teams.
• Comfortable working with globally distributed teams, navigating different time zones, working styles, and varying levels of design maturity across squads.

Working for us:

At Cyncly, we call our team OneCyncly, a reflection of how we work together as one, united by our purpose: powering businesses that bring spaces to life. Our strength comes from our diversity of experiences, perspectives, and skills - and we thrive when we work together with openness, trust, and respect.

Here, you'll join a group of colleagues who take ownership, solve problems, and focus on making an impact. We embrace curiosity, welcome new ideas, and see mistakes as opportunities to learn. You'll have the freedom to work flexibly and autonomously, supported by teammates and leaders who are committed to your growth.

We celebrate the different ways people contribute and encourage everyone - from every background - to bring their authentic self to work. Because when we collaborate, challenge each other, and share what we know, we build something better together.

If you want to work in a place where your ideas matter, your growth is valued, and your work shapes the spaces people live, work, and play in - come join us.

In accordance with applicable pay transparency laws, we are committed to providing clear and equitable compensation information. For this remote position, the expected salary range is $50,000 - $145,000 USD, depending on location, experience, and qualifications. This role may also be eligible for additional compensation such as bonuses, commissions, as well as a comprehensive benefits package. Candidates applying from jurisdictions with specific pay disclosure requirements (e.g., California, Colorado, New York, Washington, Illinois, British Columbia) will receive location-specific compensation details in compliance with local laws.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement:

Cyncly is committed to equal opportunity and does not discriminate based on race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the country in which they are applying to work (United States or Canada). This role is not eligible for employer sponsorship now or in the future.