UI Designer - Design System team

In this role, you'll join the Design System team, focused on creating, maintaining, and evolving our Design System. You'll also collaborate closely with Riverty's broader design community across UX design, content design, and service design. We operate in a regionally-distributed hybrid setup with an expectation of twice-weekly office presence, along with occasional travel for team meetups or cross-functional workshops. As a UI Designer for the Design System team, you'll report to the Design lead for the Design System.

What you'll do:

• Design, refine, and maintain core components and patterns. Ensuring they're visually consistent, accessible, and correctly use our design tokens and assets.
• Maintain and evolve our token and asset libraries in Figma, balancing brand expression with consistency, reliability, and usability.
• Enable adoption and contribution by actively supporting designers and engineers through guidance, reviews, drop-ins, and shared best practices.
• Identify and resolve Figma-related issues to keep our libraries reliable and easy to use. Also, ensure alignment between Figma and coded components.
• Create and maintain clear usage documentation for components, patterns, tokens, and assets. Embedded in our (AI) tools where possible and/or published globally on our Design System website.

Do you have experience in UI design?, * 3+ years of UI design experience, with at least 1 year contributing to a Design System at scale (multi-product or platform).

• Figma mastery: confident designing components (simple and complex), working with variables/tokens, using plugins effectively, and familiarity with Figma Make.
• A sharp eye for detail: you care about color theory, spacing, typography, responsiveness, and consistency. You notice when things don't line up (literally and conceptually).
• Strong documentation skills: you can explain the why behind decisions, write clear guidance, and provide practical examples and do's and don'ts.
• Ownership mindset: You proactively pick up tasks, drive them forward, and thrive with a high level of autonomy.
• Great collaboration skills: you communicate clearly, ask the right questions, and work well with product designers and engineers.
• A case study that shows how you contributed to a Design System at scale; including your role, the decisions you made, and the reasoning behind them.

We would be especially excited if you have any of the following (but we're also excited if you're keen to learn with us):

• A strong understanding of accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA+).
• Experience designing animations and micro-interactions that enhance usability and delight.
• A real passion for branding; translating brand expression into thoughtful, consistent UI.

Our hiring process has four steps:

• A first get-to-know-you call with one of our recruiters.
• An interview with the Design Lead of the Design System.
• A case study presentation to designers from the Design community.
• A final conversation with Design System team members., * Mobile Office: Opportunity to work from home
• Discounts & Extras: Exclusive Bertelsmann discounts and financial benefits, e.g., €1,500 referral bonus
• Flexible Working Hours and Models: Customize your working hours to suit your needs
• Training & Development: A variety of (online) courses, from language learning to leadership training, e.g., from Bertelsmann University
• Health & Leisure: Supported sports and (mental) health programs, e.g. from our partner TELUS Health
• Appreciative Environment: Diversity and employee networks enrich our culture

At Riverty, we believe that everyone should be in control of their own financial situation. Our shared commitment is to make financial solutions more innovative, empathetic and user-friendly to empower financial growth for everyone. To do this, we rely on 50 years of experience and the commitment of over 5,000 creative minds, innovators and explorers in 11 countries. Are you ready? As part of our community, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills and transform the world of finance together with us. We create an environment where you can evolve personally and benefit from our flexible working conditions and work-life balance.