Job Description

The Role:

Upwise is looking for a visually focused designer to lead our design system effort. Our design system lead will be responsible for the ongoing development of our design system as our brand’s service and touchpoints expand. You will help to plan new design system features and work with engineers to ensure their successful delivery. Including but not limited to new UI patterns, icons system, imagery, and language patterns across mobile and desktop.

Key Relationships:

Reports to Upwise’s head of design.
Work closely with our product managers and designers to build a design system that supports their work.
Occasionally work with our marketing team to assure all touchpoints and materials adhere to the Upwise brand.

What Success Looks Like:

Success in your first 6 months will look like:

Fully emerge yourself in Upwise’s point of view on financial wellness.
Design and launch V2.0 of our design system.
Set our design language so that it can be extended to all brand touchpoints beyond the Upwise app.
Increase the velocity of the Upwise build team.
Introduce motion into our work.

Characteristics:

A founder’s mentality. We are a small team, with no middle management. You must be self-motivated to push Upwise forward.
You are a maker. You find fulfillment in building things. You enjoy learning through doing, and shipping product.
Direct and truthful. The Upwise team is efficient and shoots it straight.
Grit and optimism to drive the right outcomes. We are the spear tip in the digital transformation of a 153-year-old organization.

Key Responsibilities:

Set new standards in the visual execution of our product.
Build out and maintain the design system’s libraries, tooling, workflow, and arbitration process.
Maintain the system’s documentation and standards.
Present the system’s purpose, uses, and process to our product teams.
Provide quality assurance and design system support to other designers and product managers.
Identify opportunities to increase the consistency.

Competencies / Skills:

Deep expertise in human-centered design
The rigor to create meaningful systems and their documentation
Great visual taste
A design practitioner who can craft meaningful design solutions and see them through to implementation
Ability to build traditional design system artifacts

Grids
Type scales
UI Patterns
Documentation of theory

Detail-oriented

Qualifications:

4+ years of experience
Degree in Graphic Design / HCI or equivalent

Preferred Location: New York City, New York, but open to US Region

The wage range for this position specific to Connecticut and Colorado is $107k - $134k/year.  You may be also eligible for the MetLife Annual Variable Incentive Plan ("AVIP").  Your eligibility for an AVIP award is governed by the terms of the applicable plan or program documents. MetLife offers a comprehensive benefits program that includes Medical, Dental, Life, Vision plus Retirement benefits and Paid Time Off.

What to Send Us 

Your résumé
Your portfolio
A brief note listing a one of your favorite design systems and why you love it

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