Location
London, based at Bracken House near St Paul’s, with a hybrid working model requiring onsite presence approximately 50% of the time.

Hours
Full Time, 12-month fixed-term contract covering maternity leave.

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
The Financial Times is a globally recognised news organisation committed to delivering quality information with authority, integrity and accuracy. We foster a warm, collaborative culture where curiosity thrives and ambitious thinking is rewarded. As a Product Designer in the Design Systems team, you will play a key role in evolving Origami, the FT’s design system, enabling teams to design and build with greater consistency, quality and speed. You will work across reusable principles, patterns, foundations, components and libraries that support product delivery across web and mobile platforms, including iOS and Android in a hybrid environment. Collaboration with product designers, engineers, product managers, Brand and Editorial Design teams is essential to ensure alignment across foundational styles and journalistic layouts. You will contribute to a federated contribution model, helping teams adopt and evolve the system over time. Accessibility is fundamental to this role, ensuring all patterns, components and guidance meet high accessibility standards from the outset. You will also explore and apply AI-assisted tooling to support prototyping, component definition and documentation, contributing to making Origami usable within AI-assisted workflows. This role offers the opportunity to develop your design systems practice within an established and evolving team while creating a premium, coherent FT product experience.

Experience
- Strong product design craft across interaction, visual design and prototyping with clear attention to detail and quality.
- Experience working on or contributing to digital products or design systems, understanding how systems scale across teams and platforms.
- Experience designing across web and mobile, including familiarity with iOS and Android platform conventions and hybrid environments.
- Experience working in Figma, including component libraries, variables, tokens and prototyping.
- Experience creating or contributing to reusable components, patterns or guidance for digital products.
- Experience working closely with engineers to deliver high-quality outcomes.
- Experience working in cross-functional teams within product delivery environments.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

About you
- Collaborative approach with ability to build relationships across product, engineering, editorial and brand teams.
- Comfortable collaborating through feedback, contribution and shared ways of working.
- Curiosity about systems thinking, accessibility and emerging tooling.
- Interest in AI and emerging design and development workflows, with experience or enthusiasm for AI-assisted tools.
- Ability to communicate ideas clearly and document work to support both design and engineering, with a working understanding of HTML, CSS and accessible, semantic markup.
- Commitment to maintaining a high bar for accessibility, craft and coherence across design systems.

Qualifications
- A portfolio demonstrating strong product and systems thinking with evidence of meaningful impact.
- Interest in applying AI in practical ways to improve speed, quality and consistency is a plus.