OLX
Senior Design System Designer
About this role
Welcome to OLX We're building marketplace sustainable ecosystems that millions of people depend on every month – to buy and sell cars, find homes, land jobs, and trade secondhand goods. It's commerce that matters: safe, smart, and environmentally responsible. We do this with courage to innovate, commitment to outcomes, collaboration across 50+ nationalities and 7 markets, and a customer-led approach that puts real people first. Add a desire to win – and you get a culture that's ambitious, fast-moving, and built on trust. Our brands – including AutoTrader, OLX, Otomoto, Property24, and more – are loved by millions. And we're backed by Prosus, one of the world's largest tech investors. Join OLX and see how far you can go. We believe the future of our products sits at the intersection of AI and design. Our ambition is to become an AI-native organization, where intelligent systems and human-centered design come together to create faster, smarter, and more meaningful customer experiences. We’re rethinking how products are built, how experiences are shaped, and how teams deliver impact. A key part of this transformation is creating the right foundations and infrastructure to enable high-quality experiences at scale - where design systems, patterns, and workflows are structured, scalable, and AI-readable, unlocking new levels of speed, consistency, and innovation. The role We're looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our Design System team, working across our Real Estate products. You'll play a key role in evolving our design system, helping designers and engineers across the business design and build with greater consistency, quality and pace. You'll work day to day within a small, dedicated pod, spanning web and app. But the system serves designers across multiple tribes, each shipping their own product work. You'll work within our contribution model, helping teams outside the pod propose, adopt and evolve components without fragmenting the system. We're looking for someone with strong craft, attention to detail, and curiosity about systems thinking and AI-assisted workflows. You'll help create a coherent product experience across our brands while developing your own design systems practice. Key responsabilities:
- Design and evolve reusable components, patterns and foundations within our design system, reducing duplication and improving consistency across tribes
- Define component behaviour, states and variants, working directly with engineering to ship them
- Run and improve the contribution model: the process and standards that let designers outside the core pod propose and ship components without breaking system coherence
- Support design work from problem framing through to documentation and handover, using research and feedback from teams to inform decisions
- Create clear documentation and specifications covering variants, edge cases and usage guidance
- Collaborate closely with engineers on token strategy and the practical link between Figma and production code
- Resolve conflicts between a tribe's local need and the system's long-term coherence
- Work with product design teams to identify gaps and embed stronger systems thinking across products AI-enabled Design Systems:
- Use AI-assisted tooling as part of your daily workflow, from research through to prototyping and component definition
- Contribute to making the system well-structured for AI-assisted workflows, including tokens, documentation and reusable patterns
- Know when to override AI output with your own design judgment, and be able to explain why What we're looking for:
- Proven experience designing and maintaining a design system at scale, not just documenting one