T-Mobile

Sr Design System Technologist

T-Mobile$97K — $175K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree plus 5 years of related experience or an Advanced degree with 3 years of related experience
  • Experience in Computer Science, Engineering or related fields
  • 4-7 years user experience design experience
  • Strong communication skills
  • Project management experience

Responsibilities

  • Produce wireframes, prototypes, and design guidelines with minimal oversight
  • Lead development of design principles and guidelines for consistency
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align design with technical constraints
  • Partner with researchers and designers to solve design challenges
  • Contribute to high-level design strategy supporting organizational goals
  • Provide feedback to ensure intuitive and innovative design solutions

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) with employee stock grants and purchase plan
  • Paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays annually
  • Paid parental and family leave, including family building benefits
  • Tuition assistance and college coaching programs
  • Mobile service and home internet discounts
  • Access to commuter and transit programs
Full Job Description
Job Overview This role builds and evolves the AI-powered design system that supports digital products across Mint Mobile & Ultra Mobile's ecosystem, improving quality, scalability, and consistency through user-centered system design and intelligent automation. The role uses AI-driven workflows to accelerate component creation, streamline maintenance of component libraries, design tokens, and documentation, and improve the efficiency of multi-functional product delivery. Working closely with designers, engineers, and product partners, this position helps drive adoption of cohesive, scalable experiences while advancing AI-enabled design operations across the organization. This role also contributes to defining guidelines for integrating AI into design and development workflows, helping teams work more efficiently while maintaining high standards for usability, accessibility, and brand consistency. Success in this role requires a strong balance of systems thinking, collaboration, innovation, and continuous exploration of emerging AI technologies that enhance the product design lifecycle. Job Responsibilities: • Use AI tools to accelerate component generation, streamline documentation and workflows, create interactive prototypes to test and iterate on concepts, and deliver functional component solutions to engineering for faster implementation. • Lead the development and refinement of design tokens, reusable components, UI patterns, and component architecture to ensure cross-platform design-system consistency, governance, and innovative digital experiences across platforms. • Partner with designers, engineers, Experience Design teams, Engineering Enablement Lanes, and the Design System Manager to understand requirements, technical constraints, and implementation workflows while fostering collaboration and streamlining communication between design and engineering teams. • Research, build, and contribute to the initial front-end implementation of complex UI patterns, components, and interactive experiences; collaborate with engineering teams to transform prototypes into functional production-ready solutions across applications and teams. • Drive design system adoption, consistency, innovation, and implementation workflows; build Figma plugins and contribution processes to improve designer and developer efficiency while promoting forward-thinking approaches to digital capabilities and user experiences. • Create technical documentation for tokens, components, patterns, and usage guidelines; host workshops and training sessions to educate designers and engineers on emerging technologies, AI capabilities, Figma component-building guidelines, and scalable contribution workflows. Present complex solutions to technical and non-technical audiences while delivering accurate, high-quality work on schedule. Education and Work Experience: • Bachelor's Degree or Certification in Computer Science, Web Development, or Software Engineering plus 5 years of related work experience OR Advanced degree with 3 years of related experience. Other acceptable areas of study include Digital Design, Human-Computer Interaction Design • 4-7 years. Related experience in Interaction Design or Front-End development, creating innovative solutions for ecommerce websites and native apps. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: • High Proficiency in using AI tools like Claude and Codex to create hi-fidelity interactive prototypes and complex UI patterns. • High proficiency in front-end development, including writing, reviewing, and auditing code to validate and optimize AI-generated design system libraries and component implementations. • Strong understanding of design principles, modern UI patterns, elements, interactions, responsive web design and accessibility standards. • Design and develop adaptable interfaces and components that deliver consistent, accessible, and optimized user experiences across devices, screen sizes, and platforms. • Create modular, reusable component systems and patterns that support scalability, maintainability, and efficient collaboration across design and engineering teams. • Expertise in Figma, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React and Storybook. • Excellent communication skills with the ability to verbally articulate technical details and bridge the communication gap between designers and engineers. • Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work closely with designers and engineers. Licenses and Certifications: • At least 18 years of age • Legally authorized to work in the United States Travel: Travel Required (Yes/No): Yes DOT Regulated: DOT Regulated Position (Yes/No): No Safety Sensitive Position (Yes/No): No Base Pay Range: $97,300 - $175,500 Corporate Bonus Target: 15% The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the role. The successful candidate's actual pay will be based on various factors, such as work location, qualifications, and experience, so the actual starting pay will vary within this range. At T-Mobile, employees in regular, non-temporary roles are eligible for an annual bonus or periodic sales incentive or bonus, based on their role. Most Corporate employees are eligible for a year-end bonus based on company and/or individual performance and which is set at a percentage of the employee's eligible earnings in the prior year. Certain positions in Customer Care are eligible for monthly bonuses based on individual and/or team performance. To find the pay range for this role based on hiring location, https://paylookup.t-mobile.com/paylookup?reqID=REQ350596¶dox=1 At T-Mobile, our benefits exemplify the spirit of One Team, Together! A big part of how we care for one another is working to ensure our benefits evolve to meet the needs of our team members. Full and part-time employees have access to the same benefits when eligible. We cover all of the bases, offering medical, dental and vision insurance, a flexible spending account, 401(k), employee stock grants, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays - which total about 4 weeks for new full-time employees and about 2.5 weeks for new part-time employees annually - paid parental and family leave, family building benefits, back-up care, enhanced family support, childcare subsidy, tuition assistance, college coaching, short- and long-term disability, voluntary AD&D coverage, voluntary accident coverage, voluntary life insurance, voluntary disability insurance, and voluntary long-term care insurance. We don't stop there - eligible employees can also receive mobile service & home internet discounts, pet insurance, and access to commuter and transit programs! To learn about T-Mobile's amazing benefits, check out www.t-mobilebenefits.com. Never stop growing! As part of the T-Mobile team, you know the Un-carrier doesn't have a corporate ladder-it's more like a jungle gym of possibilities! We love helping our employees grow in their careers, because it's that shared drive to aim high that drives our business and our culture forward. By applying for this career opportunity, you're living our values while investing in your career growth-and we applaud it. You're unstoppable!

About T-Mobile

T-Mobile US, Inc. is a wireless company. As of December 31, 2016, the Company provided wireless communications services, including voice, messaging and data, to over 71 million customers in the postpaid, prepaid and wholesale markets. It provides services, devices and accessories across its brands, T-Mobile and MetroPCS. It provides wireless communication services through a range of service plan options. The Company offers a device trade-in program, Just Upgrade My Phone (JUMP!), which provides customers a specified-price trade-in credit and upgrade eligibility after approximately six months of service; Equipment Installment Plan (EIP), which is designed to provide financing to customers for the purchase of devices, and installment agreements for accessories; T-Mobile Tuesdays, which offers customers free stuff and access to various offers from brands; and T-Mobile ONE and Simple Choice plans.
Learn more about T-Mobile
Size
75,000 employees
Market Cap
$174.7 billion
Industry
Net Income
$3 billion
Founded
2002
5 Year Trend
+16.4%
Revenue
$68.3 billion
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