Design Technologist/Senior Design Technologist, Design Systems

About the role:

We're looking for a Design Technologist to help us accomplish our mission to improve lives by learning from the experience of every cancer patient. Here's what you need to know about the role, our team and why Flatiron Health is the right next step in your career. 

What you'll do:

You’ll be joining our Design Systems team at the very beginning and will have the opportunity to help define how Flatiron products and tools should work, no matter who the end users are. You will help level up the way designers and engineers work together and help evolve our Design System into a core part of our software toolkit. Your work will enable teams to rapidly prototype new ideas and create high-quality user-facing applications that focus on usability, consistency, and accessibility. You will work with teams across the organization to help define front-end best practices for scalable and reliable code that touches the lives of millions of cancer patients. In addition, you’ll also: 

• Help shape the holistic vision of user interfaces in Flatiron products with an eye towards consistency, flexibility, and scalability
• Solve UI interaction problems for both internal and external users across a wide variety of tools and applications
• Partner with teams across the organization to design interaction patterns that reflect the Flatiron brand 
• Design, prototype, and test UI components that solve for a wide variety of use cases in a consistent and flexible way
• Improve designer workflows by managing shared tools and libraries and creating more efficient processes
• Build front-end UI components that follow Flatiron and industry best practices that can be used to create high-quality user interfaces
• Write new and refactor existing components that are modular, extensible, testable, and accessible
• Communicate best practices for leveraging the Design System through guidelines, documentation, process, and code reviews
• Collaborate with engineers to develop and evolve our standards for high-quality front-end code 

About you:

You're a hybrid designer who codes, or an engineer who can design. You are able to generalize user behaviour to create a scalable system of interactions that can be used by many types of applications. And then you can mock them up in Figma and can code them in the front end. You're excited by the prospect of rolling up your sleeves to tackle meaningful problems each and every day. You’re a kind, passionate and collaborative problem-solver who seeks and gives candid feedback, and values the chance to make an important impact. 

• You have prior experience working on a design systems team or as an influential contributor
• You are a systems thinker, with an appetite to dig into complex UI problems and an ability to break them down into small, modular pieces
• You have the ability to design UI that is simple and usable yet flexible enough to serve a variety of use cases
• You have deep expertise in design collaboration tools and managing shared design resources in a tool such as Figma
• You have an understanding of clean, modern web markup in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and experience with front-end frameworks like React
• You are an excellent communicator, capable of presenting your ideas clearly and in the context of user behaviour and technical sustainability
• You value outcome over output and understand the role of an iterative, collaborative design process to measure progress toward solving cross-platform problems. 

If this sounds like you, you'll fit right in at Flatiron.