Design System Designer in London

Design System DesignerJoin Journey, a leading hotel marketing agency focused on digital innovation in the luxury hospitality and travel industry. This UK‐based remote role requires residing in the UK.

What You\’ll DoWe\’re looking for a contract Product Designer with deep design systems expertise to help consolidate, rebuild, and evolve our system into a single, robust, enterprise‐ready foundation. You\’ll work across our B2B and B2C platforms, partnering closely with designers, engineers, and product teams to establish the standards, components, tooling and governance that support consistent, high‐quality experiences.

Audit existing product surfaces, UI patterns, component libraries and workflows to identify inconsistencies and priorities.

Define the system\’s foundations — architecture, naming, taxonomy, and design principles.

Build and maintain design tokens, components, variants, documentation and clear usage guidelines.

Use advanced Figma capabilities (variables, modes, component properties, auto‐layout, prototyping) to create a scalable, flexible system.

Consolidate and migrate existing assets into a single governed library.

Establish accessibility standards and ensure they\’re embedded across the system.

Partner with engineering to align design tokens, component architecture and frontend implementation.

Create governance processes including versioning, contribution models, and change control.

Ensure the system integrates cleanly into existing product team workflows and development pipelines.

Support designers across squads to adopt and apply the system effectively.

Advocate for system thinking and help elevate design quality across the organisation.

What You\’ll Bring

5+ years in product design, with at least 1–2 years focused specifically on design systems. Strong portfolio demonstrating component design, documentation, system architecture and UI scalability.

Deep expertise in Figma — from variables and modes to tokens, libraries, constraints and advanced component workflows.

Strong understanding of design tokens, and how they translate into engineering frameworks.

Experience working with frontend engineers on system alignment, component quality and implementation details.

Ability to audit, rationalise and restructure existing design patterns into scalable, coherent systems.

Excellent communication skills — clear, structured, and able to articulate standards and rationale.

Experience influencing adoption across multiple teams in a cross‐functional product environment.

Solid understanding of accessibility and inclusive design.

A balance of strategic thinking, systems architecture and hands‐on design execution.

Highly autonomous — able to self‐manage, set priorities and deliver at pace.

Seniority LevelMid‐Senior level

Employment TypeFull‐time

Job FunctionArt/Creative and Design

IndustriesSoftware Development

Location: London, England, United Kingdom (Remote within UK)

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