There are a number of opportunities for professional growth in this role including working in a highly collaborative team environment, exposure to all aspects of design system work, and a high degree of personal ownership over assigned projects. Additionally, everyone on the team has time each week to build their skills and focus on professional development.  

What you’ll be doing   

• Create and refine a systematic and unified interaction language for all Northwestern Mutual digital products 

• Use a collaborative and iterative process to design, prototype, and validate design ideas 

• Write guidelines for using and implementing the design system 

• Support users of the system through multiple channels 

• Plan and manage the scope of work for a small project team 

• Design digital applications using the design system 

• Identify and initiate ways to improve the quality of the design system program 

• Engage with community to understand wants and needs and use the feedback to advocate for projects in the roadmap 

Bring your best! What this role needs  

A Senior Product Designer will have the following experience & skills:  

• You have a bachelor’s degree, or equivalent  

• Experience that may include a combination of the following 

• Working on or using a design system or reusable component libraries 

• Working on complex, highly transactional, data intensive digital products & services  

• Developing a visual style across a variety of executions 

• Demonstrate a well-rounded set of digital design skills with primary emphasis on system and interface design with secondary abilities in information architecture and research.  

• Evince an enthusiasm for design systems and supporting designers and non-designers alike in using one. 

• Comfortable exploring and executing work with minimal direction from leadership 

• Demonstrate ability to balance specific product needs into more broadly applicable components and patterns for multiple products. 

• You are an advocate for design process and methods, and have experience teaching non-designers how they can make use of them and gain value from their practice for themselves. 

• Responsive to direction and comfortable working with multiple people from different disciplines to achieve an outcome 

• You are strategic and outcome oriented and present your work based on a critical eye to the business.  

• You are not only proficient in relevant tools of the trade but explore tools & tooling to always be ready to switch to the next outstanding tool.  

• You use your communications and social skills to influence collaborators, as well as to clearly communicate requirements, requests, and responses.  

Preferred qualifications:   

• Experience in a regulated industry like financial/banking, insurance, and/or healthcare  

• Experience working in accessibility, particularly assessing conformance of user interface designs to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines