product designer for design systems

Twinkl provides trusted teaching and learning resources created and reviewed by experienced educators. Its product team maintains and evolves a web platform, creates time-saving tools for adults, and develops educational applications that inspire children to learn.

• Build and refine responsive, accessible UI components using Auto Layout, properties, and variables
• Write and update usage guidelines, interaction specifications, and component do’s and don’ts
• Partner with front-end engineers to align design libraries and assets with code libraries
• Support design and product teams by triaging bug reports, reviewing contributions, and resolving implementation and design blockers
• Conduct regular UI audits across existing products, identify inconsistent patterns, and consolidate them into the system
• Lead core component design, manage standardised design libraries, and drive design system adoption across product and design teams
• Construct, optimise, and document foundational system elements
• Guide and support peer designers contributing to the system

• Proven digital product design experience, focused on or substantially contributing to design systems
• Strong working knowledge of Figma component architecture, library publishing, and basic variables and tokens management
• Ability to assess how components function across different user flows and use cases
• Foundational knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG), their application, and quality assurance
• Portfolio showcasing design system processes, user research, and final designs
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• First-hand experience with recent AI prototyping tools, professionally or through personal experimentation
• User empathy, collaboration, creative problem-solving, attention to detail, adaptability, openness to learning, and responsiveness to feedback
• Будет плюсом: understanding of the EdTech landscape and emerging technologies such as AI

• 12-Month fixed-term contract
• 37.5 Hours per week; core hours are 10:00am–2:00pm, Monday–Friday
• Westfield Health Cash Plan for everyday healthcare expenses, including dental, optical, and therapy treatments, up to set limits
• 33 Days of annual leave inclusive of bank holidays, pro rata
• One paid “Me Day” each year
• One paid charity volunteering day each year
• Free Twinkl subscriptions for the employee and their family
• Enhanced pension contributions and life insurance
• Enhanced maternity, adoption, and paternity pay
• Long-service awards and additional annual leave
• Flexible working with opportunities to work from home
• Friendly, welcoming, supportive, people-first culture focused on collaboration and kindness
• Inclusive workplace with employee network groups focused on LGBTQ+, People of Colour, disabilities, women in tech, and working parents