Principal Associate, Product Design - Design Systems

We're looking for a designer who will take a systems-mindset to defining and deploying consistent, reusable componentry and patterns across our product portfolio. This designer gets excited by enabling fellow design and product partners with the documentation needed to leverage, contribute to, scale, and evolve our library.

Product Design Expertise: Leverage deep expertise in product design and skills across interaction, visual and service design to elevate the quality and maturity of the design practice at Capital One; in collaboration with cross-functional partners, use appropriate tools, platforms, frameworks and design systems and work with teams to create artifacts that may include journey maps, blueprints, high-fidelity designs and prototypes

Design System Expertise: Apply a deep understanding of Figma's advanced design system features to:

- Expertly build and maintain robust, scalable components with nested instances, variants, text-properties, booleans, and interactive components

- Document component tech specs and usage guidelines like dos, don'ts, accessibility guidance and usage examples

- Create responsive components and documentation via auto layout, constraints, and interactive connections.

- Effectively apply atomic design methodology to ensure proper level of inheritance throughout our design system

- Efficiently organize and publish new versions of our design library and suite of documentation via branching controls with a risk-adverse mindset

- Provide a single source of design truth by managing access and ensure version control

Human-Centered: Champion the customer through the design process, leveraging critical-thinking skills that factor in data, research insights, scalability, tech constraints and feedback

Business-Focused: Understand and apply business and customer strategy, facilitate design process activities with team and partners, negotiating customer needs and business goals for harmonious outcomes

Problem-Solving: Actively build an understanding of the potential of tech and data capabilities and emerging technologies and use this knowledge to inform work, identify new opportunities and help your team navigate technical limitations

Collaboration: Foster relationships with partners and continuously expand your network, listening to diverse points of view and collaborating with an informed perspective to influence outcomes, break down silos and gain alignment.

- Collaborate with designers across various teams to validate new components and evolve existing ones

- Partner, mentor and teach other designers who contribute to the design system.

- Collaborate with our Tech team to ensure the Design and Tech libraries are in-sync.

- Perform Quality Assurance (QA) on the technical build of design system components and documentation

Communication: Present work to audiences across levels and job functions using a human-centered approach that integrates design frameworks, data and research insights to effectively articulate insights and design decisions

- Through governance, provide action-oriented guidance and approval for teams leveraging our design system

- Share important announcements to the community regarding our design system and processes

The ideal candidate has a strong portfolio demonstrating their process, results, and impact.

- At least 3 years of experience with design and prototyping tools, such as Figma

- At least 4 years of experience with design and prototyping tools, such as Figma

- At least 4 years of experience collaborating with product, tech and business partners

- At least 4 years of experience working with an established design system

- Experience working in heavily regulated, data heavy problem spaces