What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Product Designer, Design Systems position at oura?
Our mission at Oura is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.
Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office.
We are looking for an exceptional and experienced Senior Product Designer, Design Systems to join our team to define, evolve, and scale our growing design system. This role will be an architect of intuitive and delightful user experiences, translating complex problems into accessible solutions that ensure consistency and quality across all Oura product surfaces. You'll partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Science teams to empower feature teams with the tools and guidance they need to build beautiful and accessible experiences.
What you will do:
- Contribute to the strategy, evolution, and governance of Oura's design system, including its core components, patterns, and visual foundations.
- Collaborate with product designers, engineers, and cross-functional partners to build, document, and maintain a shared library of platform-level components.
- Advise stakeholders on common design patterns and champion new changes to design guidance and frameworks.
- Ensure seamless integration of the design system across web and native applications, guaranteeing design fidelity and a pixel-perfect user experience.
- Contribute to the refinement of core system elements, such as typography, color, and iconography, with an optional focus on illustration and motion depending on expertise.
- Define and refine production workflows, including clear handoff expectations, and collaborate with engineering partners to ensure scalable implementation.
- Collaborate and support other designers, elevating the overall craft and a systems-thinking mindset across the product organization.
This is a hybrid-remote role, with the expectation to work from our San Francisco offices at least half-time.
REQUIREMENTS
We would love to have you on our team if you have:
- 5 years of experience as a product or UI/UX designer, with a strong portfolio showcasing design systems work.
- Experience building and scaling design systems for a rapidly scaling or mass-market mobile application, connecting bridges between design and development.
- Mastery of Figma and other relevant design tools, including proficiency with components, variables, and library management.
- A proven track record of working collaboratively and effectively with cross-functional teams to drive system adoption and uphold quality standards.
- Comprehensive knowledge of mobile design patterns and a deep understanding of accessibility standards.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate a vision and drive alignment across the organization.
BENEFITS
At Oura, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at Oura has a ring of their own and we are continually looking to improve employee health and add to our benefits!
What we offer:
- Competitive salary and equity packages
- Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
- An Oura Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family
- 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off
- Paid sick leave and parental leave
- Amazing culture of collaborative and passionate coworkers
Oura takes a market-based approach to pay, which may vary depending on your location. US locations are categorized into tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. While most offers will be closer to the starting range, successful candidates' pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.
- Region 1: $162,000 - $203,000
A recruiter can determine your zones/tiers based on your US location.
We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Arkansas (AR), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Missouri (MO), Nebraska (NE), Oklahoma (OK), Rhode Island (RI), South Dakota (SD), Vermont (VT), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI)
Oura is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Individuals seeking employment at Oura are considered without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
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