Intuit's Consumer Group is looking to enhance its design system (CGDS) to accelerate the delivery of innovative and foundational design system guidelines, tools, and services, ultimately improving the velocity of the designer and developer experience and delivering a best-in-class end-user experience for millions of TurboTax customers.
Requirements
- Practical design systems experience that shows strong ownership of or significant contribution to an existing design system.
- A clear understanding and point of view on how generative and predictive artificial intelligence will change product design, and how design systems can be cohesively applied across web and mobile to support that evolution.
- Mastery of design tools (we use Figma), agile development methodologies, and accessibility requirements, both in design and code.
Responsibilities
- Own the vision, strategy, and execution of the Consumer Group Design System (CGDS), ensuring it meets the evolving needs of TurboTax customers and teams.
- Define and drive the design architecture, including foundational design tokens, components, patterns, and their use across product themes and modes.
- Create and maintain robust Figma libraries, ensuring synchronization between design and code.
- Evolve the design of innovative system tooling, including Figma plugins, to improve management of tokens, components, and themes.
- Advocate for design system adoption across teams, acting as a subject matter expert and providing consultation through Slack, office hours, and status updates.
- Surface opportunities to improve processes, deliverables, and customer experiences.
- Balance long-term design system strategy with the need to continuously ship, iterate, and evolve.
Other
- 7+ years of experience in system design, visual design, interaction design, product design, service design, or related field.
- 3+ years of experience managing designers.
- Examples of design and development advocacy that led to breakthrough adoption of design system tools, processes, or artifacts.
- Highly collaborative team spirit able to take in multiple points of view, synthesize decisions, and communicate outcomes across the organization.
- Artistry and excellence in simplifying complex ideas, identifying risks and dependencies, and delivering for customers within the constraints of technology.
- Confidence in managing through ambiguity with a track record of creative problem solving that demonstrates flexibility.
- A love for technology, and an insatiable curiosity for new tools to solve real problems.
