Senior Design System Designer

It is a great time to be in Digital Experience Design at IKEA!
Guided by our motivation to create a better everyday life for the many people, we are driving human-centered-design into all areas of the organization to put the customer and co-worker at the center of everything we do.
Our ambition is to create the best-in-class digital experience for customers and coworkers alike, constantly listening and learning from them, creating those experiences with them, iterating and improving in perpetuity. We do not exist without our customers and co-workers and believe that we report to them. Their feedback is our success and our failure.
Five principles guide us:
Design puts people first
Design brings confidence to decisions
Design is a catalyst for growth
Design brings ideas to life
Design empowers the many people

We take Design seriously!
Our team is made up of passionate experts in all areas and levels of Digital Experience Design: Product UX Design, Strategic Experience Design, Data Experience Design, Experience Design Research, Emerging Tech Design, Digital Taxonomy, Content Strategy, Experience Writing, Optimization Writing, Inclusive Design, Design Systems, Motion Design, and Design Ops to hold us all together and keep us efficient.
We are building the entire Digital Experience Design organization from scratch and need passionate co-workers to help drive IKEA into the future!
Join us to start the journey of a lifetime.
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING DAY TO DAY
As a Senior Design System Designer, you will be a key driver of our global design system, Skapa, creating consistency in the IKEA customer experience for billions of customers around the world. By using human centred design practices and design craftsmanship you will have the opportunity to define the standards for a unique IKEA omnichannel experience and to continuously develop and improve Skapa.
You will be working in a highly collaborative Centre or Expertise team and partnering with design, business, product, engineering and data teams. Your work will contribute to forming the global design system strategy and you will be a driver in the development, governance and roll out of the design system.
To succeed in the role, we see that you have experience in many of the following:
• Knowledge and experience of human centred design methodologies and approaches
• Defining, driving and implementing processes and guidelines for development, governance, updates and feedback of a design system to enable adoption across all products
• Leading collaboration with multi-disciplinary cross functional teams, to ensure alignment and fluidity in the ways of working, e.g., that coded components meet defined standards
• Leading and driving collaboration with content, writing, taxonomy, research, design, motion, and inclusive design leaders to ensure that subject matter expertise and standards for all areas are included and catered for
• Defining processes and driving coordination across a variety of teams and functions with the intent to secure understanding of common needs, adoption and continuous development of the design system
• Driving, leading and executing training and educational sessions for optimal design system adoption
• Driving and leading brainstorming sessions, design sprints, human-centred design workshops and other co-creative design methods to bring the design system strategy to life
• Defining best practices by benchmarking against industry standards to continuously validate and improve the design system
• Excellent design skills and experience working with the most common design tools, e. Figma, Sketch etc.
TOGETHER AS A TEAM
At Group Digital, we set the global digital agenda in order to enable IKEA to become the world´s leading multichannel home furnishing company. We drive the development, provision and operation of our digital products and services using new and existing technology with agile delivery methods. At the same time, we provide a home for digital skills to both develop and extend technical, people and business skills needed to continuous development and growth.
Where our Digital Transformation is allowing us to create new ways we meet and interact with our customers and co-workers, our Digital Experience Design team is responsible for shaping what the future looks like. The team has a clear vision: to create everyday digital experiences for the many people through our human-centric methodologies that enable design, inspiration and innovation.
QUESTIONS AND SUPPORT? LET'S CONNECT!
This role reports to the Head of Global Design Operations and is located Malmö, Sweden. Our organization has co-workers in Amsterdam, Sweden, Madrid, Shanghai and Philadelphia.
Please note that we don’t handle any applications on mail and in English only.
You might have some questions about the recruitment process, and we are more than happy to answer those! Feel free to connect with our recruitment specialist, Sam Foged Jensen, sam.foged.jensen@ingka.ikea.com.
We like to kindly ask you to expect some delays in response to your application, due to the Christmas and New Year Holidays.