Job description

contract position with a financial firm. Hybrid in Newark, NJ. Seeking an experienced Senior Designer, Mobile Design Systems to join our Design System team. This role is crucial for enhancing brand and customer experience across the digital product portfolio. You will collaborate with a geo-distributed mobile native team, collaborating with multi-disciplinary experts and SMEs to deliver accelerated, brand-aligned, and accessible components at enterprise scale, as we expand our mobile Design System for designers and developers. What You Can Expect: Work collaboratively with Brand, Design/Creative, Product, Accessibility, User Research, Analytics and Technology SMEs. Create and maintain mobile branding, themes, components, modules, patterns and templates as reusable libraries, test automations and documentation. Adhere to Brand, Design, Engineering and Accessibility guidelines and standards. Provide leadership on implementing and improving mobile platform coding standards, tools and workflow. Prioritize and orchestrate the work of others. Consult closely with Product teams who develop full mobile native applications. What You'll Need: Must have experience in an agency environment or regulated industry (financial services preferred). Must possess at least 5 years of iOS and Android development experience. Use of React Native is mandatory; occasional lower-level Swift/Gradle interoperability is a plus. Must have experience coding, publishing and maintaining mobile libraries over several major versions. Have solid experience coding and supporting automated tests against UI libraries (Vitest/Jest preferred) and high-value journey flows (Appium or equivalent). Must have experience crafting accessible experiences including interactions with assistive technologies. Must have experience with Figma, possess strong design-thinking and be comfortable working in a design-led product development environment. Additional pluses include the use of Storybook, Figma Code Connect, BrowserStack/Saucelabs for visual and automated QA, mainstream AI agents, and Github Actions (or equivalent). Have experience mentoring junior associates and facilitating a "we win together” ethos. payrate: 65- 80 per hour, depending on experience. LI-AR1

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Must-haves

contract position with a financial firm.
Hybrid in Newark, NJ.
Work collaboratively with Brand, Design/Creative, Product, Accessibility, User Research, Analytics and Technology SMEs.
Create and maintain mobile branding, themes, components, modules, patterns and templates as reusable libraries, test automations and documentation.
Adhere to Brand, Design, Engineering and Accessibility guidelines and standards.
Provide leadership on implementing and improving mobile platform coding standards, tools and workflow.
Prioritize and orchestrate the work of others.
Consult closely with Product teams who develop full mobile native applications.
Must have experience coding, publishing and maintaining mobile libraries over several major versions.
Must have experience crafting accessible experiences including interactions with assistive technologies.
Must have experience with Figma, possess strong design-thinking and be comfortable working in a design-led product development environment.
Additional pluses include the use of Storybook, Figma Code Connect, BrowserStack/Saucelabs for visual and automated QA, mainstream AI agents, and Github Actions (or equivalent).
Have experience mentoring junior associates and facilitating a "we win together” ethos.
payrate: 65- 80 per hour, depending on experience.

Nice-to-haves

Must have experience in an agency environment or regulated industry (financial services preferred).
Must possess at least 5 years of iOS and Android development experience. Use of React Native is mandatory; occasional lower-level Swift/Gradle interoperability is a plus.
Have solid experience coding and supporting automated tests against UI libraries (Vitest/Jest preferred) and high-value journey flows (Appium or equivalent).

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