Figma Specialist

Figma Specialist

About the Role

We’re hiring a senior UI craftsperson who lives in Figma and can take clear direction to produce high-quality screens, flows, and prototypes—primarily by extending and tidying an existing design system. You’ll work directly with the CTO via Slack and voice notes, turn rough guidance into precise UI, and keep files clean and developer-ready. This is a direction-led, craft-driven role: less stakeholder wrangling, more building beautiful, consistent product UI quickly.

What You’ll Deliver

• New screens & user flows that extend current patterns.
• Clickable prototypes for internal reviews and quick tests.
• Light design-system upkeep (components, variants/states, documentation as needed).
• File hygiene: clear structure, naming, styles/tokens, annotations.
• Developer handoff: accurate specs, measurements, and exportables in context.

How We’ll Work

• Inputs: Slack messages, voice/Loom notes, occasional Jira tickets, references, and existing components.
• Turnaround: fast iterations; confirm receipt same business day; share concise progress updates in Slack.
• Judgment: follow direction and system first; propose tasteful improvements when they raise clarity or quality.

Responsibilities

• Extend existing patterns to new use cases (onboarding, settings, error/empty states, confirmations, etc.).
• Build precise flows across breakpoints (mobile/tablet/desktop) and, when relevant, align with common platform norms (e.g., iOS).
• Create/adjust components, variants/states, and tokens to keep the system coherent.
• Prepare dev-ready specs and answer lightweight implementation questions.

Must-Have Skills

• Expert Figma: Auto Layout, components, variants/states, prototyping, styles/tokens, library usage.
• Strong UI craft: layout, spacing, type scales, contrast/accessibility basics.
• Speed + accuracy under direction; comfortable working from rough guidance.
• Clean handoffs developers trust.

Nice-to-Haves

• Micro-interactions (smart animate) or Lottie handoff.
• Awareness of web implementation (CSS variables/spacing scales) or Webflow.
• Familiarity with common native patterns (e.g., Apple/iOS) for parity when needed.

Experience

• 3+ years in product/UI design with a portfolio showing:
  • extensions of an existing system,
  • complex components/variants, and
  • tidy, dev-ready handoffs.
• Applications must include a Figma portfolio link.

Location & Employment

• Full-time.

Application

• Figma portfolio link highlighting system extensions, component work, and handoff examples.
• 2–3 sentences on your approach to file hygiene and keeping systems coherent.
• Optional: 3-minute Loom walking through a complex component you built.