Marriott International · 2 hours ago
FLEX Senior Manager - AX Product Designer, Design Systems
Bethesda, MD
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$52.06/hr - $80.96/hr
5+ years expMarriott International is one of the world’s largest hotel companies, and they are seeking a Senior Manager - AX Product Designer, Design Systems to lead the development of their Marriott Associate Design System. This role involves designing and enhancing digital experiences, overseeing governance processes, and collaborating with various teams to ensure a seamless associate experience.
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Responsibilities
Actively designing, expanding and continuously advancing the future of our Marriott Associate Design System (MADS)
Supporting hands-on efforts, overseeing governance processes, and ensuring that the design system enhances the associate experience across our business
Partnering closely with the Director of Associate Experience and Engineering colleagues in driving harmony and connection between products
Producing technical documentation, leveraging Figma’s advance technical features, and providing guidance to both designers and developer consumers of the design system
Managing and facilitating office hours for feedback and follows procedures to propose new elements when necessary
Championing appropriate patterns, components, and styles during user experience design reviews and workshops
Producing sketches, wireframes, personas, journey maps, flows, designs, motion specs, prototypes and/or presentations as needed to communicate experience design and interaction considerations
Providing subject matter expertise on key functional systems to help shepherd strategic initiatives from idea to feasible implementation
Producing both innovative high-level design concepts / strategy visualizations as well as development-ready designs with specifications
Ensuring a quality experience on live digital products by participating in the user acceptance testing process
Keeping skills up-to-date on industry trends and applying new knowledge to job, identifying strategic opportunities for competitive advantages through those findings
Clearly presenting work citing industry best practices, qual and quant data to support decisions
Collaborating with a variety of user experience disciplines within the team (UX, UI, Information Architecture, Design System/Standards, User Research, Copywriting) to advance work
Qualification
Required
5+ years of relevant experience in UX/UI or digital product design with proven design system expertise
4-year undergraduate degree, with bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience in relevant discipline
Experience in multiple of the following user experience disciplines: user experience (UX), interaction design, and visual design
Experience with major, large-scale global digital apps, web sites, or other digital products
Proven experience with design system is defining and deploying consistent, reusable componentry and patterns across various product portfolio
Well versed in industry best practices for design system documentation and governance process
High expertise in design tools (Figma, tokens-based workflows, documentation platforms like Storybook/Zeroheight) and design-to-code handoff pipelines
Proven experience delivering scalable components and UI patterns across platforms (desktop, mobile web, app, etc.)
Experience with design systems for enterprise or customer-facing products
Champion design system governance while balancing a visual design and engineering considerations
Promote system-mindset and design system best practices drawn from a variety of disciplines (within and beyond hospitality)
Can balance user, business, and technical needs
Collaborate with designer and developers to ensure consistency across features and platforms while meeting platform-specific needs
Communicate through compelling visuals and deliverables
Demonstrate self-confidence, energy, and enthusiasm in leading and influencing teams
Showcase Strong Presentation, Negotiation, And Persuasion Skills
Thrive in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to simultaneously manage multiple tasks
Preferred
You consider yourself a Figma ninja and are super enthusiastic about the latest Figma releases and trends
Expertise in large-scale global digital entities or other digital products within Hospitality/Travel industry
Superior communication and interpersonal skills including discovery facilitation, presentation, and storytelling
Experience influencing partner adoption and making it easy to realize business and development impact
Experience with Agile / SAFE development methodologies
Benefits
401(k) plan
Stock purchase plan
Discounts at Marriott properties
Commuter benefits
Employee assistance plan
Childcare discounts
Coverage for medical
Dental
Vision
Health care flexible spending account
Dependent care flexible spending account
Life insurance
Disability insurance
Accident insurance
Adoption expense reimbursements
Paid parental leave
Paid sick leave
0.0384 PTO balance for every hour worked
Minimum of 9 holidays annually
Company
Marriott International
Marriott International, Inc.
10001+ employees
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