Digital Product Designer (Design Systems)

Location: Portugal (remote)

Department: Product Design

Employment Type: Permanent

Hours: Full-time

About YLD:

Our goal is to help our clients keep moving forward. We work with them to build the skills and capabilities they need to stay ahead of the competition, and we know our success only happens when they succeed. We’re a team of curious, talented people, and we’re committed to making YLD a place where great people want to work, grow, and stay.

We’re a remote-first consultancy specialising in software engineering, product design, and data. Our teams are based across London, Lisbon, and Porto, and we create digital solutions that continue to deliver value long after our work is done.

About the role:

We’re looking for a very experienced, hands-on Digital Product Designer with proven Design Systems skills and good UX knowledge to join our Product Design team.

As a Product Designer, you’ll be part of a client team shaping innovative, user-centric products. We expect you to be curious, passionate, and driven, with a strong eye for detail and a deep understanding of design principles. You’ll be skilled at solving complex problems through thoughtful design, creating intuitive and visually compelling experiences.

You’ll be an effective communicator, able to articulate your decisions clearly, and a collaborative team player. You and your team will work in a fast-paced, iterative environment, consistently delivering high-quality design outcomes that elevate the product and delight users.

You’ll have the following skills and experience:

• Experience in UX Design, Product Strategy, UI / Interaction Design;

• Significant experience in Design Systems and UI design;

• Are confident in creating UI components independently to craft a reusable design systems.

• Experience working with Zeroheight / Supernova (or similar) and Storybook is very welcome;

• Experience with animation and incorporating it into UI is very much welcomed;

• Experience working with, or good knowledge of implementing web accessibility, would also be a big bonus;

• Coding skills/ability would be a benefit, but is in no way essential;

You should apply if you:

• Be happy to collaborate with both more senior and junior people to establish a design language;

• Enjoy transforming complex concepts into simple and easy-to-use experiences;

• Happily participate in all aspects of product design: Research, Sketching, Wireframing, UI Design, Prototyping, User Testing etc;

• Love working with other experienced designers and learning from them, as well as sharing your own knowledge.

• Love working alongside front-end developers and being a part of a cross-functional team;

• Believe that product, design, and engineering are closely connected and work best when collaborating together;

• Care about accessibility and creating products that are inclusive to all people;

• Be very hands-on;

• Feel comfortable with moving at a fast pace with your team;

• Believe that learning and self-development never end;

• Want to bring your drive, passion, and experience to our work and processes;

• Be comfortable working either in a remote environment or surrounded by your colleagues in the office.

• Have great stakeholder management skills and be able to help, guide, and support the client to success.

What we’d like to see from you:

• A portfolio (PDF, presentation, or website) demonstrating critical thinking, creativity, visual design, and Design System experience;

• CV outlining any professional experience and creative training/education, incl. any kind of official UX / UI training that you may have;

• All written documents must be sent in English.

As well as the chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people, you’ll also get:

• Company Private Health Care

• Enhanced fully paid maternity and paternity leave for up to 6 months

• 25 days annual holiday (excluding Public Holidays)

• €2000 annual allowance for Training/Conferences

• €300annual allowance for additional hardware

• Mental Health support: access to Spill app

• Meditation/Sleep support: Headspace or Calm app subscription

• Bonus (depending on Company performance and results)

• Company laptop

• Generous referral schemes

Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:

• 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)

• Portfolio Review with two of our Senior Designers (~1h30)

• Interview with Head of Product Design (30/45 mins)

• Meet the team! (30 mins)

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We live and breathe our values, and know you will too:

• Growing every day

• Including everyone

• Relationships built on honesty and ethics

• Inspiring solutions

• Winning together

We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity in all its forms. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability. We also offer a remote-first working environment, with flexible working and work–life balance as standard for all employees.