Senior Design Systems Designer, UK

Design           ·         London, England, United Kingdom (Hybrid)       ·       Full time / Permanent

About the job

Giving the world more time.

For the first time in human history we have the technology, data, and insights to redefine health. Together with our partners, we will make the leap from reactive to proactive medicine. By collectively benefiting from the data we individually generate, we can all live our longest, fullest lives. Huma partners with scientists, technologists, healthcare, and life sciences professionals to understand, treat, and ultimately prevent ill health. Giving knowledge and power to those with medical conditions, while saving clinicians time, energy, and valuable resources.

At Huma, we pride ourselves on our approach to fully discovered, patient centric, research based design output. In the last 4 years – we have refined the product to include an ecosystem of applications that fulfil the needs of our clinical requirements. Not only for clinicians – but patients, researchers and other health care professionals. 

We believe highly accessible, visually considered user interface design is at the heart of our products. It’s what we do best, and we pride ourselves on the high attention to detail, quality of output and inclusivity by design of our products.

We are looking for a highly experienced senior UI/ UX product designer that is familiar with design systems management to maintain and procure our Huma core design system.

N.B. We are unfortunately unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Your mission

• Develop, maintain and evolve the design system to help other designers do their best work
• Establish procedures to effectively maintain the design system and ensure alignment with the live products and the engineering documentations
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and clinical teams, ensuring that all the right stakeholders contribute to the design delivery
• Work closely with software engineers to develop and ship the design system and UI libraries
• Write documentation and provide guidance to other product designers on how and why components, styles and patterns are applied in code and design
• Help with the embedding of event management / analytics within the design system

From day one in this role, we’ll expect you to have

• BA/BSc Degree in systems engineering, computer science, product design, or graphic design
• Relevant working experience in product design, graphic design and/or engineering 
• At least 5+ years of experience as product designer, on a scaling product 
• Strong experience with design tools and UI libraries – Such as Figma, Adobe, amcharts, SB, Material UI etc
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong knowledge of the design industry and the latest software tools that improve effectiveness of design systems and collaboration tools
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• A passion for healthcare – keen to get stuck in, and make a difference to the health technology / clinical trial space.

You will thrive at Huma if you are

• Resilient – show adaptability, be a pro-juggler and have the ability to move fast
• A strong communicator – you practice open and clear dialogue, while listening with fairness 
• A collaborator – you achieve some of the greatest results by working together
• A problem-solver – a passion to creatively find solutions that solve one of the biggest global challenges – human longevity

What we can offer you

• Competitive pension scheme & salary sacrifice with Aviva
• Prioritisation of your health and wellbeing with ClassPass or Urban Sports Club
• EAP scheme and gym membership discount with AXA
• Progressive private health insurance with AXA Health
• AIG Life & income protection scheme
• Generous share options – every employee is an owner
• 25 days paid vacation + UK bank holidays
• Home office allowance to support home working
• Bike2Work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Family first culture – giving the flexibility you need
• Growth & development opportunities

Come join us!

We believe magic happens when you bring together diverse ideas, experiences, and styles. We want to create a world where people live longer, fuller lives, and to do that well we need a team that represents all of the people and communities who use our solutions. We aspire to create an environment where everyone has the opportunity to do their best work. We are always looking for ways to improve so if you have any suggestions, please get in touch.

Dear recruitment agency friends: Huma attracts an amazing number of direct candidates and we do not need any help at this stage, so please do not send us unsolicited agency resumes. This is not a great use of your time, and we will not accept any liability or fees for any resumes or candidates which we have not asked you to find for us.

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