Role
In this role, you'll learn the processes and best practices for crafting a system that supports iteration, encourages collaboration, and promotes consistent design across all products. This role is ideal for someone with a strong interest in systemized design, UI patterns, and a desire to grow their skills in design systems work-and beyond. You'll work on improving the usability of the system, contribute to the library of design components, and gain valuable experience in design system maintenance and documentation within a CX&D team of design strategy, product design and client enablement while upholding Mastercard's high standards for product experiences.

Responsibilities:
• Assist in designing, updating, and refining UI components to ensure consistency and scalability within the design system
• Collaborate with senior designers to create components that work across various use cases and platforms (e.g. web and mobile app) and meet WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standards
• Help document component usage guidelines, design principles, and best practices to promote a shared understanding of the design system among designers, engineers, and other stakeholders
• Develop a solid foundation in design system thinking and principles by participating in team meetings, design critiques, and workshop sessions
• Gain exposure to the full product design lifecycle-from an idea and initial design concept to testing, iteration and development
• Work with your manager to organize and track work in 2-week sprints, maintaining progress and priorities in Rally/Jira software
• Participate in design reviews, contribute to code reviews, and collaborate on quality assurance to maintain a high standard for visual and interaction design across products
• Keep up-to-date with industry trends and new design tools/techniques, continually refining the system to meet modern UX and design standards

All About You
• Experience in product design, UI/UX design, ideally with exposure to working within or contributing to a design system
• Experienced in Figma and familiar with or willing to learn about front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) for seamless collaboration with developers
• Enthusiasm for learning about scalable design, modular components, and atomic design principles. A basic understanding of these concepts is a plus but not required.
• Strong sense of visual quality, attention to detail
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, with a willingness to receive mentorship, ask questions, and work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Prototyping experience, knowledge of latest accessibility standards and a desire to create inclusive designs are nice-to-have skills

Mastercard is an inclusive equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.