Design System Specialist

Salary: £58,184
Grade: Level 5, Zone 2
Location: 5 Pancras Square, London N1C 4AG
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 36, Full Time
Closing Date: Wednesday 4th September 2024; 23:59

About Camden

Camden is building somewhere everyone can thrive, by making our borough the best place to live, work, study and visit. Because we’re not just home to the UK’s fastest-growing economy. We’re home to the most important conversations happening today. And we’re making radical social change a reality, so that nobody gets left behind. Here’s where you can help decide a better future for us all.

What You’ll Be Doing / How You’ll Be Involved

You will be designing digital products and services, working in the open with the user at the centre of all you do and working across all channels within a service.

As Camden’s Design System Specialist reporting to the Experience Lead, you will be instrumental in building on our front-end library to create a robust, unified, and adaptable design system - a set of components, patterns and guidance that will serve as the foundations for all our citizen-facing digital products and services.

Your key responsibilities include leading the development and implementation of the design system – working closely with developers, product managers and service designers on how to make it operational and ensuring it aligns with our digital vision and goals. 

You will lead our efforts to design with accessibility and inclusivity at the forefront, ensuring compliance with and surpassing WCAG AA standards. 

You will collaborate very closely with developers, content designers and service designers and owners, to conceptualize, create and refine the design system components and guidelines to work for prototypes, external partners as well as internal product teams. 

You will champion best practice, emphasizing the centrality of the design system in our product development process. 

You will be confident and experienced in using research and analytics to improve your work. 

You will employ a diverse range of prototyping methods to validate and refine design concepts, preferably in code and/or collaborating with developers.

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All About You

You will have a relentless focus on the importance of the detail of interaction design to making digital products and services truly inclusive and accessible.

You will have an understanding of service design principles, practices and methods and of product development methodology, frameworks and principles.

You will have the ability to influence, persuade and communicate and to make data and evidence-driven decisions.

What We Offer

At Camden, you’ll receive a host of benefits. From flexible working to 27 days annual leave (+ bank holidays!). We also know that a work life balance is extremely important so we also offer family leave, loan schemes and access to our incredible staff networks. We also have an incredible pensions scheme. 

Visit 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits' for more details.

Inclusion and Diversity 

We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.

To discover more about Camden and our commitment towards diversity, equality and safeguarding, please visit camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits' for more details.

Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.

Asking for Adjustments 

Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, at resourcing@camden.gov.uk or post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG.