Role Context We are looking for a product-focused web designer to join the IT department team — someone who understands development, knows how to work with design systems, prototypes, and interface animations, and will be a full-fledged part of the IT team rather than marketing.
The main responsibility is designing product interfaces in close collaboration with developers, with a focus on usability, scalability, and straightforward implementation. Readiness to quickly make changes to layouts is required. Role Responsibilities * Design product interfaces (web application, mobile application, CRM). * Propose improvements to existing design solutions. * System design: develop, implement, and maintain a design system (UI Kit) in Figma, including components, tokens (colours, typography, spacing, shadows), and clear rules for their usage. * Keeping designs up to date: continuously synchronise Figma designs with the implemented product functionality. The designer is responsible for ensuring developers always work with up-to-date and detailed layouts. * Dark/light theme: design and implement full support for both themes at the design system level. * Create interfaces that are user-friendly, clear, and scalable. * Design intuitive interfaces for complex functional product blocks, considering all element states (including errors, loading states, and empty states). * Technical feasibility: create animations and micro-interactions that improve UX without complicating development. Willingness to discuss and simplify solutions based on technical constraints.
Requirements and Responsibilities1. Product Design: * Experience with product UI (including mobile applications). * Experience designing interfaces for web applications or SaaS products. * Ability to design complex interfaces considering all component states. * Development of user flows and edge cases. * Focus on usability and clarity without excessive visual effects.
2. Collaboration with Developers: * Constant interaction with the development team. * Discussion of solutions before development starts and during implementation. * Ability to: * explain design decisions; * accept technical constraints; * adapt design solutions to technical limitations. * Ability to prepare designs for development handoff: * well-thought-out user flows, * specifications, * exportable assets, * multiple element states. * Understanding of basic frontend development principles: * HTML / CSS; * browser and CSS limitations. * Ability to estimate the implementation complexity of solutions. * Knowledge of browser limitations.
Strong plus: deep understanding of frontend development principles. Knowledge of Flexbox/Grid, DOM, CSS limitations, and the ability to assess the complexity of implementing specific animations. 3. Design System: * Experience creating and maintaining a design system: * components; * tokens (colours, typography, spacing); * states (hover / active/disabled / loading). * Experience with a component-based approach. * Understanding how a design system speeds up development and ensures consistency. * Hands-on experience creating or significantly updating a design system in Figma (Auto Layout, Variants, Component Properties, Tokens). * Confident use of Figma: * components; * variants; * auto layout; * component properties. * Clean and well-structured layouts. * Responsiveness: * desktop; * mobile; * responsive layouts; * Understanding of breakpoints and interface behaviour across different screen sizes.
4. Animations and Interaction: * Design of simple and clear animations: * transitions; * Lottie animations; * micro-interactions. * Understanding of UI animation basics: * timing, * easing, * Material Motion principles or equivalents. * Animations should be: * useful; * lightweight; * realistically implementable. * Ability to create functional prototypes (in Figma, ProtoPie, Framer) to demonstrate transition logic and micro-interactions.
5. Dark / Light Theme: * Designing interfaces with dark and light theme support. * Theme handling at the design system level rather than on individual screens.
Nice-to-Have: * Experience with layout (HTML/CSS). * Technical background or experience working closely with development. * Experience working in a product environment: * Jira / YouTrack; * Slack.
Important: a full-time frontend developer is not required, but layout experience significantly simplifies communication. Language Requirements * English — B1-B2 (working level): * reading and understanding technical requirements; * basic written communication; * participation in work calls when necessary.
Not Required: * Branding and visual identity. * Banners, advertising creatives, and SMM. * Illustrations, 3D, complex motion.
