Production Designer

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. As a Production Designer on the Central Design team, your role will be to provide product design teams with the technical design support needed to help team designs high-quality user experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Champion the adoption of Yahoo's design system by aligning with product team objectives and proactively addressing challenges and gaps. This may include migrating design files from one library to another, building product-specific modules using design system components. Work closely with the Systems Design team and to help identify gaps on product teams and contribute back to the design system
• Support designers and engineers during the development process by providing asset optimizations and technical design support needed during the development process. Provide supplemental technical design requirements so that product designers can focus on designing products
• Research across multiple project files to see the commonly used components, catalog inconsistencies and provide recommendations to improve the consistency and speed of design workflows
• Help create, maintain and update asset and component libraries to streamline the design process across products
• Review design files that are ready for engineering, add detailed specifications for developers and provide technical design partnership to engineers during the development process

Requirements:

• 3-5+ Years Experience as a Production Designer, Systems Designer, or in a similar design role
• Proficient in Figma. Familiarity with other design tools such Adobe, Framer, etc. is a plus
• Strong technical understanding of design systems, web and mobile development processes
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
• Highly-organized and detail-oriented with the ability to deliver precise and accurate specifications and documentation