NewPrincipal Product Designer - Design Systems
Apply on HalterHalter is hiring a Staff Product Designer to lead the design of a significant area of their product experience. The role is based in Halter's Auckland, New Zealand HQ and relocation and visa assistance are provided. The role involves setting and advancing design foundations across mobile and web, building and maintaining design systems with engineers, and spending real time with farmers, ranchers and graziers in the field. Halter is office first (working from the office is the default, with flexibility when needed).
What you'll do
- Set, own and advance design foundations across mobile and web
- Set the standard for craft and make that standard usable through principles, guidance and worked examples
- Shape the technical architecture and system structure alongside engineers
- Treat the system as a product: set its direction and prioritise what to build next based on what designers and engineers need
- Give teams a clear point of view on which pattern to reach for and why
- Turn field conditions into standards the system carries by default (legibility, target sizes, clarity at a glance)
- Work alongside teams to spot what's working across new product surfaces and promote it into documented, reusable foundations
- Decide what earns the right to be a pattern and what should be a considered one-off
What they're looking for
- 8+ years designing digital products, with significant time spent designing and building design systems at scale
- Exceptional visual craft and command of typography, layout, spacing, colour, accessibility, interaction and motion design
- Proven experience shipping a design system with engineers
- Knowledge of how tokens and component libraries are structured in code, and experience building and maintaining the Figma to code connection
- A portfolio showing both foundational systems work and concrete high-craft experiences built with it
- Conviction and the language to make your judgment explicit, teachable and useful to others
- A track record of coaching other designers and raising quality around you, and the presence to build alignment and defend an opinionated decision
Learn the skills this role asks for
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