Senior Design Systems Designer

Who We Are

NEXT Ventures is where ambition takes shape and momentum becomes movement. As a global platform revolutionising access to performance-based capital, we empower the world’s most driven individuals to rise. Through our flagship brand, FundedNext, we empower dreamers to become doers, and potential to turn into performance. With 500+ driven minds across five countries, we power a global rhythm—220,000+ daily users from 170+ nations, each chasing greatness in their own way.

Your Role in Our Mission

As our founding Senior Design Systems Designer, you'll architect and build the design system that powers our entire product ecosystem. This is a rare opportunity to establish the foundation of design at scale, defining standards, creating components, building documentation, and championing adoption across product teams.

You'll work at the intersection of design and engineering, balancing craft with pragmatism, and creating systems that empower designers to move faster without sacrificing quality. This isn't a maintenance role, it's a design engineering role. You'll shape the practice from day one, working independently across overlapping time zones with design, product, and engineering teams to scale our design operations.

How You’ll Make an Impact

Design System Strategy & Foundation

• Build and evolve the design system from the ground up (components, patterns, tokens, guidelines, documentation)

• Establish scalable foundations across web and mobile

• Define design tokens, accessibility standards, and responsive patterns for global products

Brownfield Optimization & System Audit

• Audit existing products to identify inconsistencies

• Establish baseline components and unified standards

• Create a phased roadmap for systematic improvement

Engineering Partnership & Implementation Excellence

• Partner closely with engineers to ensure design-to-code fidelity

• Establish structured handoff processes

• Build reusable, production-ready component libraries

Documentation, Enablement & Adoption

• Create comprehensive documentation for designers and developers

• Develop enablement materials to support system usability

• Conduct workshops, office hours, and 1:1 sessions to drive adoption

• Evangelize system usage and gather continuous feedback

Governance & Operational Framework

• Define contribution guidelines and review workflows

• Establish governance models balancing quality control and autonomy

• Maintain system integrity while enabling team velocity

Cross-Functional & Global Collaboration

• Collaborate with product designers, engineers, and stakeholders globally

• Travel occasionally for co-working sessions, offsites, research, and planning

Measurement & Continuous Improvement

• Measure system impact through adoption metrics

• Track efficiency gains and consistency improvements

• Iterate based on data and team feedback

What You Bring

• 5-8+ years of product design experience focused on design systems, component libraries, or design operations

• A portfolio showcasing design systems work; component libraries you've built, documentation you've created, and measurable adoption/impact

• Competent Figma skills including components, variants, auto-layout, variables, and design tokens; you're the person teams come to for advanced Figma questions

• Deep understanding of design fundamentals: typography, color theory, spacing systems, responsive design, and accessibility (WCAG 2.1, 2.2)

• Experience working with both greenfield (building from scratch) and brownfield (systematizing existing products) scenarios

• Strong collaboration and communication skills; you can advocate for system thinking while being pragmatic about trade-offs

• Self-starter mentality with a track record of building practices from 0 to 1 without heavy oversight

• Bonus: Front-end development skills (HTML, CSS, React) or strong technical fluency to partner deeply with engineers

• Bonus: Experience in fintech, trading platforms, SaaS, or complex data-rich products

• Bonus: Experience with enabler tools like Tailwind, Storybook, Zeroheight

Your Journey After Applying

• 30-minute HR Session with the Talent Acquisition team

• 60-minute Session with the Direct Supervisor

• 60-minute Session with Chief Strategy Officer

Why Join NEXT

At NEXT Ventures, performance is more than numbers — it’s the pulse that drives innovation and impact. Join us to architect a world-class performance and rewards ecosystem that shapes how success is recognized across continents. Be part of the team that turns ambition into achievement and potential into performance.

Your next chapter in global leadership begins here.