ezCater is the most trusted provider of corporate food solutions and is purpose-built for business. ezCater's corporate food platform and flexible, scalable food solutions allow organizations to centralize and track their food spend, and fulfill everything from daily employee meals to client meetings and company all-hands. ezCater backs this up with business-grade, best-in-class, customer service and an unmatched nationwide footprint. We're backed by top investors including Insight, Iconiq, Lightspeed, GIC, SoftBank, and Quadrille.
At ezCater, we care a lot about building incredibly helpful products that our customers, caterers, and delivery partners love to use. We’re looking for someone with a strong visual point of view and modern design aesthetic to support the ongoing development of our design system, Recipe. Your sweet spot is balancing solid systems thinking principles with the flexibility needed to support a wide range of touch points across web and mobile.
As Senior Product Designer for Recipe, you’ll help craft a clear vision and strategy for how the Recipe design system supports every ezCater product. You’ll be a vocal design systems advocate and work hand-in-hand with our design systems engineers in driving adoption of Recipe by all product teams. You’ll be the owner of our Recipe UI components in Figma and work closely with your engineering partners to translate, test, and implement those components into code for others to consume.
What you’ll do:
- Collaborate with product designers and engineers to establish a clear vision and roadmap for the design system and actionable guidelines for UI design and development.
- Define and own the implementation strategy and standards for design systems, as well as the organizational metrics to measure adoption of the system itself.
- Work with design and engineering partners to understand future needs and requirements for a comprehensive cross-platform design system (web and apps).
- Provide guidance and mentorship to consumers of the design system and ensure proper implementation and productivity for all things system related.
- Identify analogous UX patterns across ezCater products and implement them as global design systems concepts.
- Build and maintain performant, reusable components that meet the needs of both engineers, product designers, and brand designers.
- Review and provide feedback on design team contributions to design systems projects to ensure consistency, quality, and scalability.
- Serve as a primary advocate for WCAG accessibility standards across ezCater products through education, tools, and processes that enable teams to achieve high levels of compliance.
- Craft thorough design documentation, translating concepts between design and code, and educating designers and engineers on rationale for usage of components.
- Raise the bar for the quality of design at ezCater through your design work, mentorship, facilitation, and workshop skills.
What you have:
- 4+ years of experience as a product designer, user experience designer, interaction designer, or similar role with accompanying experience in visual/graphic design.
- 2+ years of experience driving the evolution of a design system by establishing, maintaining, and scaling design systems foundations, token systems, complex components, and adoption of systems-related processes.
- Solid understanding of product design fundamentals and proficiency in Figma and Storybook.
- Ability to build components in Figma, manage a Figma component library, and educate others on how to use these tools efficiently.
- Passion for inclusive design and accessibility with solid understanding of WCAG best practices and accessibility testing.
- Excellent communication skills and can clearly articulate your vision and rationale verbally and through written form.
- Ability to be autonomous and take initiative and ownership of projects while collaborating with cross-functional partners and other designers.
- A transparent approach to working that invites others into the process and provides a welcoming venue for feedback.
- A positive attitude and ability to provide clear feedback, as well as regularly seeking feedback on your own performance.
- A detailed portfolio that showcases a knack for solving complicated problems and how your work led to business and customer impact.
- Soft skills that are as well developed as your research skills.A sharp mind, a soft heart and a large funny bone.
- A sharp mind, a soft heart and a large funny bone.
Bonus points if you have:
- An active member of the design systems community with experience speaking to large audiences on the importance of design systems.
- Experience designing for B2B audiences or marketplaces.
- Worked in the restaurant or delivery industry.
- Conducted some amount of UX research.
The national cash compensation range for this role is $141,000 - $181,000* per year
*Please note: Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise and region & may vary from the amount above. This range does not represent additional compensation benefits (such as equity, 401K or medical, dental or vision insurance).
ezCater does not sponsor applicants for work visas or legal permanent residence.
What you’ll get from us:
You’ll get a terrifically compelling opportunity, in an environment of radical transparency, open access to all the data, and collaborative colleagues at every level of our organization. You’ll also get sane working hours and great flexibility around work/life balance.
Have people in your life – of any age – who always, often, or sometimes need your help? We make room for that. Have a bad thing or a good thing happen to you? We make room for that, too.
Oh, and you’ll get all this: Market salary, stock options that you’ll help make worth a lot, the usual holidays, all-you-can-eat vacation, 401K with ezCater match, health/dental/FSA, long-term disability insurance, remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston or Denver offices OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office (you choose!), a tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy, wicked awesome co-workers, cupcakes (and many more goodies)when you’re in one of our offices, and knowing that you helped get this rocket ship to the moon.
ezCater is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace humans of every background, appearance, race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, and disability status. At the same time, we do not employ jerks, even brilliant ones.
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