Our client, a well known and highly regarded pharmaceutical company, is currently seeking a freelance Senior Design Systems Strategist / Designer to join their Experience Design team for long term work, through 2024 (with potential to extend into 2025).

This is remote role, 40hrs/week working east coast hours (You can pick between 8:00-5:00 ET or 9:00-6:00 ET).

Design Systems Strategist / Designer will be working cross functionally, focused on taking an existing design system and modifying it to build out a new system for another sector of the business.

MUST HAVE:
- Deep knowledge and understanding of design systems and how they play between a "parent design system" and a "child design system"
- Strong proficiency in Figma
- Must be hands on to take the design system and modify it / build it out for another business unit

Responsibilities:
- Craft vision and roadmap for the new design system, aligned to business goals, user needs and quality (starting with the existing)
- Align standards and governance to parent / child model
- Shape the scope to scale effectively to additional TAs and content types
- Establish a quality assurance framework for how the system is built, maintained and used in accordance with business management and governance
- Test components to ensure they are built with usability and accessibility best practices and inherit accessible, tested patterns
- Drive user-centricity and ensure the system is user-friendly, oversee documentation for use and trainings for designers and developers
- Measure success by defining and tracing key metrics to measure the design system's impacts
- Gather feedback and iterate to identify areas of improvement and evolve with the changing needs

Requirements, Skills and Expertise:
- Skilled at creating interaction design solutions for desktop, web and mobile applications
- Strong visual design skills, able to create compelling, branded, high-fidelity product screens
- Familiar working with design systems that consistently scale across platforms
- Preferred technical experience (Figma REQUIRED) (e.g., Figma and Adobe Suite); nice to have technical experience (e.g., Jira, Invision, Zeplin, HTML, JS, CSS, MaterialUI, React-JS, Bootstrap)
- Experienced in in designing systems and tools to enable customer interactions and collaboration (e.g., digital self, precision marketing, DAM, immersive technology)
- Experience in underlying conceptual models based on human-centered design principles to deliver a fully aligned, context-driven experience
- Foundational skills (at minimum) in Data Engineering, Cybersecurity, Intelligent Automation and Emerging Technology
- Hands-on experience designing consumer applications for desktop, web, and mobile
- Proven experience working in design teams in an Agile Product Development setting

Creative Circle's Freelance Employee benefits package includes eligibility for Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) medical plan, dental/vision/term life package, discount prescription program, critical illness, accident, tele-behavioral health, and 401(k) plan. Sick leave is provided to Candidates whose assignment work location is in a state or city subject to sick leave laws. A Minimum Value (MV) PPO medical plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and paid holiday eligibility are based on length and dates of service.

Submit resume (and samples if applicable) to: Jennifer.Marshall@jobalert.creativecircle.com

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