Senior Design System Designer

Summary

Love geeking out on design system details? We are looking for a proven specialist who can shape, scale, and help operationalize enterprise-grade design systems within complex environments—with a strong focus on insurance workflows and future-ready, AI-supported workflows. This role sits within the Jutro Design System team with a specific specialisation and ownership focus on design tokens. In this role, you will work with design tokens, create components in Figma and with emerging AI tools, and collaborate with engineering and stakeholders.

Job Description

In this role you’ll join a close-knit and multidisciplinary UX team working to make cloud software that is at the forefront of the insurance industry. We’re committed to building an inclusive workspace that embraces people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, skills, and talents. At Guidewire, we foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, and responsible use of AI — empowering our teams to continuously leverage emerging technologies and data-driven insights to enhance productivity and outcomes.

This role can be located in any of Guidewire’s supported European countries, with a preference toward Dublin or Krakow (in office 2 days per week). 

What you will do (must haves):

• Create and maintain design component libraries in Figma, ensuring they are structured, usable, and up to date.

• Write clear component and token usage specifications, pattern rationale, and best practices that empower application teams to design consistently and at speed.

• Own and evolve the design token architecture and naming taxonomy

• Manage the full lifecycle of tokens in Figma (Figma Variables, Tokens Studio)

• Partner with design system developers to ensure seamless implementation of components and to ensure that design tokens align with code repositories (like Storybook).

• Actively explore, test, and implement AI-driven tools and workflows to improve design & development efficiency for our teams.

• Communicate openly, ask great questions, provide rationale, and defend design decisions; partner with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

• Advocate for design system adoption and best practices.

What you will bring:

• Proven design system experience: 3–5+ years working on creating and evolving a design system, component library, or UI framework.

• Proficiency with Token Studio and Figma Variables.

• Experience with GitHub, PRs, and repo-based token management.

• Experience working with the Figma MCP server.

• Strong systems thinking, understanding modular design approaches, AI, and how they break down to component level with tokens.

• Knowledge of accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG 2.2 Level AA).

• Development knowledge (how design tokens and components are consumed in code, e.g., in component libraries).

• Proactive and pragmatic approach with an ability to work with constraints.

• Ability to suggest improvements and incorporate feedback into the work.

• Cross-collaboration experience with PMs, engineers, designers, and other various stakeholders.

• Experience with design system agentic workflows preferred.

How we work @ Guidewire

• Collaboration: We build on each other’s ideas and draw on interdisciplinary approaches to craft impactful experiences. 

• Integrity: We stand behind our words and commitments as part of a global community, respecting and recognizing our interdependence.

• Curiosity: We are lifelong learners, with a growth mindset, who are passionate about advancing our discipline through entertaining new ideas and unique perspectives. 

• Humility: We leverage our expertise while respecting other viewpoints and challenging our own assumptions.

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.

Guidewire Software, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace, and believe that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.

Guidewire is proud to be a disability inclusive employer. We are committed to providing individualized accommodations and support to candidates for any part of our hiring process. If you think you may need disability-related accommodations, please email EmployAbility at accommodations-gw@employ-ability.org.uk, our disability partner, or schedule a call with an EmployAbility expert (calendar booking slot) for a confidential conversation.