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Senior Design System Designer

Guidewire·Dublin, Ireland
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Guidewire is hiring a Senior Design System Designer to shape, scale and help operationalize enterprise-grade design systems, with a strong focus on insurance workflows and future-ready, AI-supported workflows. The role sits within the Jutro Design System team with a specialisation and ownership focus on design tokens: working with tokens, creating components in Figma and with emerging AI tools, and collaborating with engineering and stakeholders. It can be based in any of Guidewire's supported European countries, with a preference for Dublin or Krakow, in office two days per week.

AI skillsThis role asks for AI & agentic skills, exactly what we teach at Into Design Systems

What you'll do

  • Create and maintain design component libraries in Figma, keeping them structured, usable and up to date
  • Write clear component and token usage specifications, pattern rationale and best practices so application teams can design consistently and at speed
  • Own and evolve the design token architecture and naming taxonomy
  • Manage the full lifecycle of tokens in Figma (Figma Variables, Tokens Studio)
  • Partner with design system developers to implement components and keep design tokens aligned with code repositories such as Storybook
  • Actively explore, test and implement AI-driven tools and workflows to improve design and development efficiency
  • Communicate openly, provide rationale and defend design decisions while partnering with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
  • Advocate for design system adoption and best practices

What they're looking for

  • 3-5+ years creating and evolving a design system, component library or UI framework
  • Proficiency with Tokens Studio and Figma Variables
  • Experience with GitHub, PRs and repo-based token management
  • Experience working with the Figma MCP server
  • Strong systems thinking, understanding modular design approaches and AI and how they break down to component level with tokens
  • Knowledge of accessibility standards (e.g. WCAG 2.2 Level AA)
  • Development knowledge of how design tokens and components are consumed in code
  • Cross-collaboration experience with PMs, engineers and designers; experience with design system agentic workflows preferred

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