About the role

Principal UX Designer shaping the design ecosystem at Upshop. Leading design practices and mentoring team members in UX strategies and systems design.

Responsibilities

Own and evolve the Upshop Design Platform and System: components, guidelines, interaction language, motion principles, and shared patterns.
Partner with engineering to ensure consistency, scalability, performance, and technical feasibility at platform scale.
Define and document standards for how design is expressed across products — from tokens to complex state behaviors.
Advocate for accessibility, performance, and inclusive design across the system.
Create and iterate high-fidelity prototypes, interaction models, and design artifacts that clarify intent and drive alignment.

7+ years of UX / product design experience with a strong portfolio of work that demonstrates both strategic depth and craft excellence.
Experience creating and scaling design systems or shared UX platforms in complex multi-product portfolios across different medium (web, tablet, mobile)
Proven track record of mentoring designers and elevating team quality.
Hands-on design fluency: end-to-end interaction design, advanced prototyping (Figma), motion where applicable.
Deep systems thinking: ability to decompose and organize design patterns that scale across products and teams.