Senior Design Technologist
HybridAuckland, Auckland, New Zealand or Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Job Summary
Own and maintain the design system as the single source of truth for components, patterns, interaction flows, and UX guidelines. Build and maintain production-ready UI components, scalable front-end patterns, and automation pipelines that translate design decisions into working code. Encode design tokens, accessibility requirements, and layout rules into structured, reusable systems while creating clear documentation for designers, engineers, and AI-assisted tooling. Ensure front-end code quality, WCAG compliance, performance, and standards alignment by partnering with engineering teams to support seamless integration between design system outputs and build processes. Evolve the design system based on customer feedback, user insights, and research outcomes, contributing technical expertise to governance discussions and sharing knowledge across teams.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years' experience across UI/visual design and/or front-end development
- Demonstrated experience building and maintaining design systems or component libraries at scale
- Strong front-end development skills across HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks such as React
- Strong knowledge of design systems, token architecture, component APIs, and documentation standards
- Experience translating design decisions into production-quality front-end code
- Familiarity with modern tooling such as Figma, Storybook, GitHub, MUI, and design token pipelines
- Knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG), user-centred design principles, and information architecture
- Experience working within cross-functional teams alongside designers, researchers, and engineers
- Proven ability to create clear, structured system documentation consumable by both people and AI-assisted workflows
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to articulate technical and design decisions clearly
- Bachelor's degree in Design, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline — or equivalent practical experience
Desired Qualifications
- Experience working in AI-augmented or AI-led product delivery environments
- Knowledge of agentic AI workflows, orchestration, and AI-assisted design-to-code pipelines
- Understanding of machine-readable documentation structures and AI context engineering
- Experience within SaaS or product-led environments
- Understanding of CMS and CRM platforms
- Front-end performance optimisation experience
- Relevant certifications in front-end development, UX/UI design, or design systems
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