Senior Product Designer with Technical Expertise

Project overview

Senior Product Designer - Design Systems & Front End

Dublin, Ireland | On-site, 5 days a week | 6-month contract, extension possible | Start: 1 December 2026

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer with strong technical depth to join the digital design team of a global payments technology leader. The role sits across product design and Front End engineering, and focuses on moving the design system onto a modern, code-integrated stack.

THE TEAM AND PRODUCTS

You will join a team of six designers within the Digital unit, working on global products used across EMEA:

• An international payment platform: a single point of access for every persona in the payments ecosystem
• A responsive merchant portal: small and large merchants track transactions, order terminals, generate reports, manage employees and order services
• A merchant onboarding tool for new customers
• An Android application for smart payment terminals
• A developer platform giving developers access to the company's payment APIs

Responsibilities

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Design tooling

Design systems

Front End development

Development tools and life cycle

Desirable

EXPERIENCE AND BACKGROUND

• Improve the user experience through visual design suited to user needs and cognitive load
• Own the visual consistency of digital products by implementing changes to the design system
• Move the design system library onto a modern technology stack by integrating Figma properly with the development environment
• Design final UI views and assets for web and mobile
• Research, develop and deliver design solutions for acquiring portals, E-commerce and mobile applications
• Create and present interaction concepts, wireframes, prototypes and final designs
• Run user research directly with end users: design and test concepts and prototypes, uncover unmet needs and rapidly prototype solutions
• Translate findings into solutions for merchant and financial institution customers
• Analyse usability testing and research results and recommend design direction
• Track UX/UI trends and emerging technology
• Advanced Figma: components, variants, auto layout, variables and modes, library management
• Figma-to-code integration, including Dev Mode and Code Connect
• Design token workflows with Tokens Studio
• Hands-on experience using and extending a design system at scale
• Design tokens to current standards (W3C Design Tokens Community Group format)
• Token transformation and distribution with Style Dictionary
• Component documentation in Storybook
• HTML and CSS to production standard
• Working knowledge of a modern Front End framework: React or Angular
• Familiarity with Front End libraries and component-driven development
• Node.js and npm-based tooling
• Working in an IDE (eg VS Code)
• Git version control with GitLab
• CI/CD pipelines and how design system changes move through them
• Experience writing Figma plugins
• 4+ years in product design
• Degree in interaction design, industrial design, computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience
• A portfolio showing UI design work, including design system and Front End contributions
• Solid grounding in UX design process and user research methods
• Experience in a corporate setting within a large organisation
• Clear communicator, able to present ideas and propose solutions to stakeholders
• Proficient spoken and written English

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Location: Dublin, Ireland, IE