Design Systems Expert (f/m/d)

Full Time
Munich, Germany
11 months ago
JOIN OUR TEAM

The EQS Design Team is looking for a new colleague! We are looking for a skilled innovative system designer for our creative team. As a Design Systems Expert, you will play a key role in establishing and maintaining a cohesive design system that aligns with our brand and user experience.  Experience is definitely important, but we’re looking for a person with the right mindset: someone who’s proactive, motivated, a team player, a design lover, and simply an honest and fun human being. If this is you – come and let’s shake this up together.  EQS Group is a leading international cloud software provider in the fields of corporate compliance, investor relations, and ESG. By working with EQS Group, thousands of companies worldwide inspire trust by fulfilling complex national and international disclosure obligations, minimizing risks, and communicating transparently with stakeholders. As you might have already guessed trust, compliance, and transparency is very important to us. That's why we communicate all our commitments to sustainability, diversity, equality, and well-being on our homepage and our social media platforms. We do this for you, for us, for everyone – fairly and publicly. The key to our success is hiring talented people who bring passion to the table every day, take responsibility, and support each other in the best possible way to create a trustworthy environment.  Help us revolutionize together!

OUR CULTURE DRIVES OUR BENEFITS

  • You're important. A trusting environment and lifelong learning for your individual development. Set personal development goals, receive support and regular feedback. We support you in equipping yourself for success. 
  • Living our values. Take responsibility for a variety of tasks, find out what you like to work on, and find your way to make your own personal impact with us!    
  • Great atmosphere. Regular team events, BarCamps, corporate volunteering days, a talented international team, and a common goal that unites us all. 
  • Be part of an exciting journey.  Contribute to our success story of becoming the leading European cloud provider for corporate compliance, investor relations solutions, and sustainability reporting (ESG Tech). We share our success with you through our employee share ownership program. 
  • Work-life balance is a must.  You will work in our modern office in the heart of Munich and be equipped with up-to-date hardware. In addition, you can work remotely, even from other European countries, and flexibly arrange your working hours. And if you need a longer break, we also offer you paid vacations and the possibility of a sabbatical – because your free time is just as important to us as you are. 
  • Your special extra.  In addition to our share plan, we offer you other exciting benefits such as a company pension plan, salary optimization in the form of customized bonus and benefit programs, as well as corporate shopping benefits. 
  • Health is a priority. Company-sponsored sports program for the use of various fitness studios, leasing via JobRad, mental health counseling, and much more for you. 

YOUR IMPACT

Our Product Design Team, aims to create innovative, user-centered products and we want to make EQS – a hidden champion – shine brighter. ✨ As a Design Systems Expert you will report to Head of Product Design and together with your team and peers, you’ll define design standards for components while getting your own hands “dirty”.  Here’s a sneak peek at how you would contribute: 

  • Design Nerd – You are responsible for the design system, including UI components, patterns, layouts, color schemes, typography, and interactions.  
  • You strive for consistency – Help the team define and create a unified interaction language for all EQS digital products Ensure that the design system is consistent, accessible, and user-friendly across all digital platforms and devices.  
  • Evangelize design system – Act as a subject matter expert on design system principles, advocating for its use and benefits within the organization. 
  • Collaborate – with Product engineers to ensure seamless integration of design system components into the development process.  
  • Design products with what you have built – Design digital applications using the design system you created and suggest continuous improvements to it. Aim for the top! 
  • Challenge everything – Conduct regular audits of digital products to identify areas for design system improvements and updates.  

THIS IS YOU

We will make RegTech “fun and sexy” – and for this, we need your impact.To succeed in this role, you should: 

  • You are a design systems enthusiast – and supporting designers and non-designers alike in using one drive and motivates you. 
  • Figma is your home base – You understand atomic principles, the implementation of design tokens & variables. 
  • Have a strong portfolio showcasing great UX and UI solutions as well as design systems - You have experience in designing and maintaining design systems for complex B2B digital products.  
  • Strong understanding of user-centered design principles - web standards, typography, accessibility, color theory, and layout principles.  
  • Basic understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and their impact on design system implementation. 
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills - You have the ability to articulate design decisions and rationale effectively. 
  • Be a fluent English speaker. German is a nice-to-have.  
  • Be humble. We want to work with people who can truly collaborate and help each other out. With your pragmatic, creative, and communicative approach, you simply bring people together.  
  • Be open-minded and hungry for knowledge and continuous improvement, but also you just love to have FUN!