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About the Role

We are seeking a Product Designer to join our Design Systems team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. This role is based in London and focuses on evolving Origami, the FT’s design system, to enhance consistency, quality, and pace in design and development across web and mobile platforms. You will collaborate with various teams to ensure a cohesive user experience and maintain high accessibility standards.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve reusable components, patterns, foundations, and libraries within Origami.
• Contribute to system solutions across web and mobile, supporting hybrid environments.
• Identify opportunities for reusable patterns and system improvements.
• Support design work from problem framing through validation, documentation, and handover.
• Create clear documentation and specifications using Figma, Zeroheight, and other system tooling.
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure feasible and scalable solutions, including design token implementation.
• Support designers and engineers through contribution and governance processes.
• Work with product teams to identify gaps, improve consistency, and embed system thinking.
• Support the delivery of roadmap priorities to enhance efficiency, quality, and adoption.
• Maintain high standards for accessibility, craft, and coherence across the system.
• Explore and apply AI-assisted tooling to support prototyping, component definition, and documentation.
• Contribute to making Origami usable within AI-assisted workflows.
• Collaborate with engineers to explore practical AI-assisted approaches to component development and documentation.

Requirements

• Strong product design craft across interaction, visual design, and prototyping with attention to detail.
• Experience working on or contributing to digital products or design systems.
• Understanding of how systems scale across teams and platforms.
• Experience designing across web and mobile, including familiarity with iOS, Android, and hybrid environments.
• Confidence applying accessibility standards in practice.
• Ability to communicate ideas clearly and document work for design and engineering.
• Working understanding of HTML, CSS, and accessible, semantic markup.
• Collaborative approach with the ability to build relationships across teams.
• Comfortable collaborating through feedback, contribution, and shared ways of working.
• Understanding of how individual design decisions contribute to broader system quality, consistency, and maintainability.
• Up-to-date with and interested in how AI is shaping design and development workflows.
• Experience using or exploring AI-assisted tools.
• Interest in applying AI to improve speed, quality, and consistency.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong product and systems thinking with evidence of impact.
• Experience working in Figma, including component libraries, variables, tokens, and prototyping.
• Experience creating or contributing to reusable components, patterns, or guidance for digital products.
• Experience working closely with engineers to deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams within product delivery environments.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• An interest in systems thinking, accessibility, and emerging tooling.
• Experience or interest in AI-assisted design or development workflows is a plus.

Skills

• Product Design
• Interaction Design
• Visual Design
• Prototyping
• Design Systems
• Figma
• Zeroheight
• HTML
• CSS
• Accessibility Standards
• Systems Thinking
• AI-assisted tooling

Location

• London

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Fixed-term contract

Experience Level

• Mid-level

Benefits

• Generous annual leave
• Medical cover
• Inclusive parental leave packages
• Subsidised gym memberships
• Opportunities to give back to the community

About the Company

• The Financial Times is a leading global news organisation known for its authority, integrity, and accuracy.
• The FT's mission is to deliver quality information and services worldwide.
• The company fosters a culture of curiosity and rewards ambitious thinking.
• Employees have the opportunity to reach millions, create impactful work, and deliver impartial journalism.
• The FT offers a warm, collaborative culture with a diverse community of experts.
• The company supports employee growth, career aspirations, and wellbeing.
• The FT provides opportunities that challenge and inspire, allowing for career exploration and skill development.

Equal Opportunity

• We believe in the power of unique perspectives and want all voices in our organisation to be heard, respected, and valued.
• A supportive workplace is one where employees feel they can be themselves and operate to their full potential.
• We are committed to removing barriers for everyone, with a focus on addressing those faced by underrepresented groups.
• We are a disability confident employer and Valuable 500 signatory.
• Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments/personalisation as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview.