PLATFORM - UX - SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGNER, DESIGN SYSTEMS (EUI)

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people.
The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter.
By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.
What is The Role.
We are looking for a talented and detail-oriented Design System Designer to help create, maintain, and improve our design system for our B2B data-intensive interfaces for data analysis and management.
You will work closely with product designers, engineers, and solution stakeholders to ensure a consistent, functional and user-friendly design language across our platform.
Your expertise will ensure that the design system meets the needs of both our users and internal engineering teams.
Our design system, known as Elastic User Interface, or ‘EUI’ for short, is open source and used by hundreds of engineers in their daily work.
Available at https://eui.
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o/#/ This role reports into the Design Director - Platform as part of a larger Platform solution design team of ~15 designers.
You will be working closely with two other designers within the Global experiences area of the Kibana Platform - supporting two engineering teams - EUI and Shared UX, managed by a single PM.
You are curious to learn and capable of coding.
You are not a developer, but you can speak the language and are comfortable writing HTML and CSS.
You desire to craft user experiences for complex products and have collaborated with product managers and engineers.
Please note that the inclusion of a portfolio or case studies is essential for consideration.
We appreciate your understanding.
What You Will Be Doing.
Develop and maintain a comprehensive design system that includes UI components, patterns, style guides, figma design toolkits and documentation.
Collaborate with product and UI/UX designers to create scalable design solutions for web Work closely with engineering teams to ensure seamless implementation of design system components.
Ensure consistency in visual language, interaction design, and accessibility across the platform.
Create and maintain detailed design documentation for designers and developers.
Contribute to the evolution of the design system by identifying areas for improvement and implementing best practices.
Conduct usability tests to refine design system components.
Enable internal partners through clear guidelines, shaping working practises, design deliverables, and creative problem-solving Your diplomatic personality allows you to walk the tightrope between giving platform orientated expert recommendations whilst bringing solution requirements into your design thinking What You Bring.
Structured systems thinking, with the ability to break down molecules into atoms.
Ideally you have experience working on design systems for complex B2B or technical products.
Balances the big-picture vision of design systems with a pragmatic, iterative approach—delivering solutions that are elegant, feasible, and future-ready.
Strong understanding of design principles, UI/UX, and responsive design.
Strong interaction, IA and visual design skills Proficiency in design tools - we use Figma and Figjam Understanding of accessibility standards and how to implement them within a design system.
Knowledgeable about front-end development technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) Familiarity with Git/Github - you are comfortable running a local development environment, reviewing and commenting on Pull requests, and contributing layout and style changes to a codebase.
Strong communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally with designers, engineers, and stakeholders.
Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to effectively convey ideas in groups and clearly explain your design decisions You are an organised self-starter and able to adapt to work across timezones.
Asynchronous updates help in our remote set-up and even oversharing aids alignment with your team across the globe You are passionate about latest design and technology trends and adopt modern techniques, as appropriate Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity.
Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life.
Your age is only a number.
It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.
We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.
Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary Health coverage for you and your family in many locations Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles Generous number of vacation days each year Increase your impact - We match up to $ (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave Different people approach problems differently.
We need that.
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Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.
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What Elastic Has to Offer Elastic is the company behind the Elastic Stack - Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash.
From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, Elastic helps people explore and analyze their data differently using the power of search.
Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Cisco, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems.
Elastic offers their employees benefits like.
401(k) / Retirement Plan Minimum 16 weeks of parental leave Health coverage & vision insurance Flexible locations & schedules Work from home policy Generous vacation time & paid holidays