Design Systems Lead

The Company 

RightShip is the world’s biggest third party maritime due diligence organization, providing expertise in global safety, sustainability and social responsibility best practices. 

We bring together years of industry expertise with the output from analytics and large data sets to provide our safety and environmental scoring systems, recommendations and consultancy services. 

Using leading data and technology, we aim to set new benchmarks in environmental protection. We support global initiatives and action influencing practical and impactful change, enabling “win-win” for business and the environment. 

To find out more visit RightShip.com. 

What we offer 

We offer a place where you know you are contributing to an organization who are constantly working to ensure ships are safe as possible so that crew and cargo are protected. We are passionate about maritime efficiency, safety and sustainability practices. 

We offer generous rewards. Our base salary is competitive, we support employee wellbeing and provide our employees with a Healthy Living Allowance and our annual incentive scheme is awesome. We have some great talent who are happy to share their experience and skills to help you on your way and we are committed to professional development to make sure your career keeps growing while you’re working with us.

What makes RightShip a great place to work at:

RightShip is an equal opportunity employer, and we champion diversity. Our teams are composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, and generations. We believe that a diversity of experiences makes us stronger—as individuals, as communities and as an organization.

Don’t meet every single requirement of this role? Still apply! Research tells us that that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply unless they meet every single requirement.  At RightShip we believe that the right hire is someone who makes an addition to our culture, rather than someone who fits in and conforms to our status quo. We want to add team members who not only value RightShip standards and workplace culture, but also bring an aspect of diversity that positively contributes to our work environment. If you are excited about this role, or about our company in general, we would love to hear from you!

Position Description

Permanent; Full-time 

Location: Singapore 

Team: Product & Innovation 

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The Design System Lead will be front and center in creating the experience underpinnings of RightShip’s entire platform by creating simple, flexible and configurable components that allow UX designers to fully focus on creating journeys and solutions instead of on UI. 

You will report to the Head of Design and work with a multi-cultural, multi-disciplined team in a fast-paced, dynamic, agile environment. You’ll collaborate closely with other designers, Front End engineers and other partners to ensure our products work well, are simple to produce and scale easily. 

We are looking for someone who can help develop the vision, strategy and roadmap for creating and implementing a system that can gradually replace the one we already have in use. The scope covers everything from the fundamental modular web platform concept to component atoms, molecules and configurable organisms. You will also cover responsiveness, accessibility and iconography. 

Major Responsibilities   

EFFICIENCY  

• Your success is measured by the efficiency you achieve with respect to making UX designers and front-end developers faster and more confident.  

DS STRATEGY  

• Collaboratively build an experience vision that aligns with business goals and lowers productivity efforts. 
• Audit the existing system in Figma to identify short-, medium- and long-term changes in accordance with this vision. 
• Develop a strategy that makes screens responsive, scalable and simple to be iterated upon. 
• Create an implementation roadmap that smartly shares and utilises planned squad time. 

DESIGN 

• Craft not the highest fidelity system in the ‘right way’ with the ‘best tools’, but a system that adheres to commercial needs and drives outcomes in the leanest possible way. 
• Create effective components that are easy to understand, to consume and to configure for UX designers. 
• Use Figma Variables, slots and component nesting, exposing a minimal number of stage components to designers that sport a broad and controlled range of configurations. 
• Govern the use and implementation of the system in both, design and development and iterate upon it according to the respective needs. 
• Actively solicit feedback and requests from UX designers and developers while advising on consistent component and pattern use. 
• Maintain and iterate upon our icon library, data viz assets, font and color scales. 
• Participate in usability testing to understand potential issues and opportunities with regards to the UI and patterns. 

PARTNERSHIPS 

• Every design system is only as good as its coded implementation - you need to partner closely with front end developers to plan approach, structure and taxonomy, ensuring minimal to no delta between Figma and coded components. 
• Define usage patterns and behaviour in collaboration with FEDs and UX designers. Craft behaviour for comprehension, not decoration. 
• Actively participate in design reviews to stay in touch with the work and partner with UX designers on solving experience challenges. 
• Develop and maintain strong professional and collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders – As your system underpins everyone’s work, you need to invite collaboration at any time and be open to feedback. Relationships will power your impact. 
• Communicate design rationale to stakeholders to achieve alignment and shared understanding– your work is central to move conversations away from UI and towards utility, predictability and scalability. 
• Involve yourself in every step – your understanding of commercial strategy and customer pain points is important to identifying how the design system can seize opportunities for efficiency and effectiveness. 

Qualifications, Skills & Experience  

• Proven experience in creating design systems in Figma for commercial use, ideally in large complex B2B environments. 
• Excellent UI design skills for creating simple and highly usable interaction patterns, with a propensity towards simplification. 
• Strong understanding of ways to structure components that makes designers more efficient. 
• Experience with B2B data-rich platforms. 
• Familiarity with user research and usability testing. 
• Strong curiosity and desire to up-skill and explore. 
• Open-mindedness and constantly looking to push for improvements in flow and success rate. 
• Creative candour – the desire to challenge any decision, including your own, with rationale. 
• Experience working in Agile development processes.  
• Previous experience in a technology-based company or in growing businesses in emerging markets.  
• Background in UX, UI or code – Understanding code is not required but a big plus as it helps the collaboration with Front End. 

RightShip is an Equal Opportunity Employer and values diversity, enables access and promotes inclusion in our workplace. You must have the right to live and work in this location to apply for this job.