Sr. Designer, Design System

Sr. Designer, Design System

What you’ll do: NinjaTrader’s growing Design organization is seeking an experienced, highly skilled, and collaborative Senior Design System Designer. Working closely with our Design Systems Lead, you’ll help evolve and scale our design system while enabling designers and engineers to build high-quality, consistent experiences across our trading platform. You’ll combine exceptional visual design craft with systems thinking, partnering across Product, Engineering, and Design to improve efficiency, accessibility, and product quality.

In this role you will: Partner with the Design Systems Lead to evolve and scale NinjaTrader’s design system across web, desktop, and mobile experiences

Create, document, and maintain high-quality reusable UI components, patterns, templates, and interaction guidelines

Maintain and extend design token architecture that supports scalable implementation across platforms

Collaborate directly with Engineering to ensure design system components are accurately implemented and maintained in Storybook and production

Identify opportunities to improve consistency, usability, accessibility, and efficiency throughout the product ecosystem

Build and optimize Figma libraries, variables, plugins, automation, and AI-assisted workflows to streamline design operations

Support product designers by providing guidance, documentation, onboarding, and best practices for using the design system effectively

Contribute to governance processes that ensure the design system evolves intentionally while supporting product velocity

Help define and track adoption metrics, component health, and system usage to continuously improve the effectiveness of the design system

What you’ll need: 7+ years of experience in UX, UI, or Product Design, including at least 2 years focused on design systems

Demonstrated experience designing, documenting, and maintaining scalable component libraries and design systems for complex digital products

Expert proficiency in Figma, including components, variables, auto layout, libraries, and modern workflow automation

Strong understanding of design tokens, component architecture, and design-to-development workflows

Working knowledge of Storybook and modern frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript frameworks) with the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers

Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design practices

Strong visual design, interaction design, and systems thinking skills with a portfolio demonstrating scalable design solutions

Experience balancing consistency with product flexibility across multiple teams and products

Excellent communication, collaboration, and documentation skills with the ability to influence without direct authority

Passion for craftsmanship, continuous improvement, and elevating design quality across an organization

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