iCapital

Design System Designer - Assistant Vice President

iCapital  •  Lisbon, PT (Remote)  •  4 hours ago
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Job Description

About the Role

We are looking for a systems thinker with strong visual design skills, exceptional attention to detail, and a passion for creating scalable experiences. You thrive on collaboration, bring clarity to complexity, and influence teams through thoughtful solutions. Naturally curious and proactive, you continuously seek opportunities to improve how teams work, stay ahead of emerging trends in design systems, and enable others to create consistent, high-quality user experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain reusable design system foundations, components, patterns, templates, and documentation that enable consistent, accessible, high-quality user experiences.
  • Contribute to evolving the design system into AI infrastructure.
  • Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to identify reusable opportunities and evolve the design system to support emerging product needs.
  • Review and guide design system contributions from product designers, ensuring a high standard of quality.
  • Champion the design system by educating and enabling teams, driving adoption, gathering feedback, and continuously improving the system.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in Product Design, including at least 2 years of dedicated, hands-on experience designing and evolving design systems.
  • Proven experience building and maintaining design systems, with a track record of solving complex design challenges through scalable solutions.
  • Strong visual and UI design skills with exceptional attention to detail.
  • Expert-level proficiency in Figma, including library management, complex component architecture, and variables.
  • Strong systems thinking with the ability to translate product needs into reusable patterns and scalable solutions.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a proven ability to work effectively across Design, Engineering, and Product teams.
  • Experience collaborating with engineers to bring design system components from concept to implementation. Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, Git, and Visual Studio Code is a plus.
  • Self-motivated, collaborative, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating your design process, problem-solving approach, outcomes, and measurable impact is required.

Nice to Have

  • Experience designing accessible experiences and familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG).
  • Experience with motion design and interaction design.

We believe the best ideas and innovation happen when we are together. Employees in this role will work in the office four days, with the flexibility to work remotely one day (Friday). 

Benefits

iCapital offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes a total compensation program consisting of competitive salary, annual performance bonus, and equity for all full-time employees; healthcare with 100% employer-paid health and dental insurance; and generous paid time off (PTO).

For additional information on iCapital Network, please visit https://www.icapitalnetwork.com/about-us Twitter: @icapitalnetwork | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/icapital-network-inc

iCapital

About iCapital

Innovating at the intersection of technology and investment opportunity, iCapital streamlines the integration of alternative investment strategies into client portfolios. For asset managers seeking to capture private wealth assets and advisors looking to diversify through private market investing, iCapital provides the means to grow and scale efficiently.

At the forefront of the digital transformation in alternative investing, iCapital’s secure platform delivers a complete portfolio of management capabilities for education, transactions, data flows, analytics, and client support throughout the investment lifecycle. With $880 billion of global volume activity on platform, inclusive of $220 billion in global alternative assets, the iCapital operating system automates and streamlines the complex process of private market investing and seamlessly integrates with clients’ existing infrastructure platform and tools.

iCapital employs more than 1,750 people globally and has 16 offices worldwide, including New York, Greenwich, Zurich, Lisbon, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, and Toronto. iCapital has consistently been recognized for its outstanding innovation, fintech industry leadership, and performance, including CNBC World Top Fintech Companies for 2024, and Forbes Fintech 50 for seven consecutive years since 2018.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
New York, NY
Year Founded
2013
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