Product Designer, Design Systems
Working At Bitso
We are a diverse team that takes pride in understanding the perspectives of others. We fully embrace working remotely and we are eager to act, improve and accelerate progress inside and outside of our organization.
To drive revolutionary changes in society and make crypto useful, we delight our customers with world-class products, deep care, and intentional empathy.
Your Purpose
As a Product Designer, you will drive innovative output across our variety of products with strong skills in interaction design, UI patterns, and demonstrated expertise in creating digital design systems with a solid approach to delivering consistent, scalable, and development-ready work.
As a Product Designer, you are a talented and driven contributor who partners with other UX designers, engineers, and product owners to make high-quality work that solves the proper problems at the right time. We’d love you to help define, maintain, and evolve our system, understanding the user’s needs to create guidelines, build components, identify patterns, interactions, and behaviors for products built using iOS, Android, and React.
Reports To
Product Design Director
Who You Are
Failure to meet any of the following required qualifications could result in an automatic rejection.
- English speaking and writing fluency.
- Between 2 to 4 years of relevant experience in web/mobile design
- High level of proficiency with Figma.
- Ability to create wireframes, prototypes, and design specifications.
- An exceptional portfolio that highlights thoughtful and high-quality UX and UI work for web and mobile apps and/or design systems (please share a link to your portfolio with us).
- Ability to drive an end-to-end design process and communicate design decisions to cross-functional partners, and to negotiate for a final result that works for the business and for users.
- Experience discovering solutions through research and user testing (sharing prototypes with customers and internal stakeholders).
- Experience applying the best practices for designing mobile-first experiences.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Familiarity with design principles and design foundations, typography, colors, grids, and layouts and dynamic type.
- Advanced level knowledge of design pattern libraries and design components.
- Ability to identify patterns and tokenize the common ground assets into a systematic framework.
- Knowledge of accessibility standards and guidelines.
- Ability to define and implement style guidelines.
- Comfortable writing systems documentation.
- Great communication skills.
- Ability to gather design system metrics and present them to leadership and stakeholders.
- Understanding of front-end web and mobile technologies that are required to build out experiences. Partnering well with developers is a must.
- Interested in building Figma plugins to support the design system is a nice to have.
What You Will Do
- Collaborate with product design, engineering, and research to establish, build, and maintain a comprehensive library of shared components, using a modular approach for Web, iOS, and Android interfaces which will be part of Bitso’s Design System.
- Work closely with React, Android an iOS engineers to ensure our designed components are in-sync with their needs. Consider technical constraints to always bring incremental value.
- Extend and enhance our design system patterns.
- Facilitate the creation and maintenance of proper styles, components and patterns documentation and communication.
- Utilize research methods to assess the efficacy of the system and understand customer needs.
- Measure, improve and align Design System impact metrics with company objectives.
- Advocate for accessibility standards, inclusive design principles, and best practices.
- Empower and educate teams across the company to adopt and contribute to the design system.
- Stay current with trends in UX, design, and Crypto.
- Propose ways to improve the workflow of the design system team by creating and maintaining Figma plugins and other design tools.
- Create a world-class user experience
- Leverage data and business metrics to prototype experiences and make decisions.
- Collaborate with Product Managers and the research team to identify users’ needs
- Monitor our design tasks and documentation.
- Review work from your teammates and provide mindful and actionable feedback.
Who We Are
With over 7 million users, Bitso is the leading cryptocurrency platform in Latin America. We are developing the cryptocurrency ecosystem in the region and enabling financial inclusion. We believe crypto is the future of finance, and we’re committed to making it useful by providing equal access to safe and intuitive financial products.
We are here to make a lasting impact on our customer’s lives and we do so by embracing our core values:
- Be Human: we delight our customers through great products, deep care and true empathy. We are humble and we take pride in understanding the views of others to help us see the full picture.
- Drive Change: we’re fearless pioneers committed to unlocking the crypto revolution for humanity. We move fast, take risks and work together to drive lasting impact.
- Choose Bold Honesty: we seek the truth, especially when it’s uncomfortable, in our teams, products and business reality because that will uncover where we need to focus.
- Be An Owner: our sense of urgency makes us have a bias towards action, where we prioritize exceptionally and are wise in allocating our time to ensure we always deliver creative and innovative results.
Learn more about our culture and values.
Compensation & Benefits
At Bitso, you are taking the front seat on the edge of crypto innovation, creating the next generation of crypto-powered products.
So for those willing to commit, adapt and pioneer the most important change of the century we offer:
- Me Time program, including unlimited paid time off.
- Remote-first work environment.
- Employee Stock Option program.
- Zero trading fees through our Bitso app.
- Extended Family Leave policy: all birthing parents, non-birthing parents and adopting parents are eligible for a 4-months leave.
- Premium health, dental and life insurances in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.
- Mental wellness platform.
- Volunteering days.
- Subsidized caregiving for children, adults or pets.
- Monthly stipend for gym memberships, relaxation activities, sports equipment, cooking classes, books, entertainment and more.
Want to leave an undoubtedly legacy with us? Fasten your seatbelt and join this spaceship, where you will find exponential growth and the opportunity to thrive!
- These are the applicable requisites, although equivalent competencies in any of the above will also be considered.
- This role is expected to work remotely.
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