Job description
Join Zepz: Breaking Down Borders, Together
Our Meaningful MissionAt Zepz, we're all about breaking down barriers for our customers and our teammates. Our purpose is deeply personal, we provide a lifeline and deliver opportunities to cross-border communities that need it most through cutting edge finance and tech.Zepz is the power behind WorldRemit and Sendwave, driven by the mission to celebrate the incredible impact migrants have, both at home and abroad. We're not just moving money; we're building a world that truly recognizes and supports global connections.
Who You'll Be JoiningWe look for mission-driven builders who thrive in a fast-paced environment connected to a true purpose. We’re an always developing team of experts that enjoy problem solving and bring clarity to tough challenges. At Zepz, we are Relentless Learners, always seeking feedback, and Responsible Owners, treating company resources like your own. We depend on Transparent Communicators who keep the team aligned through open, honest talk.
Our Core Commitments — What We Live By
Our vibrant and truly diverse culture is built on three core commitments, that guide how we work and interact:- Integrity: We always do the right thing. It’s simple, but it’s the foundation of everything we build for our customers and each other.
- Outcomes: We work for our customers. Their success and prosperity are the results we focus on delivering.
- Velocity: We are fast! We maintain high energy levels and make smart decisions quickly, keeping us nimble and ahead of the curve.
Perks of Joining Our Team
We believe in empowering colleagues because we genuinely trust our team. Our culture is founded on this high trust, which naturally encourages the high ownership that drives us to meet our shared high expectations and deliver high performance. Our remote-first culture means you have the flexibility to work in your employing country wherever you feel the most focused and productive. This freedom comes with wonderful tailored, location-specific perks designed to support your whole life, not just your work. Think unlimited annual leave, great healthcare benefits, and employee discounts. We want you to thrive and focus entirely on making your biggest impact! In turn, we expect you to bring high ownership and commitment to your work. This is a place where we value trust and high performance, and we'll provide the environment and support needed for you to excel
About the Role
We're looking for a Design Systems specialist to rebuild Sendwave's design foundation with one clear goal: making our design system fully legible to AI. This isn't just a library refresh, it's a structural investment in how AI agents, copilots, and design-to-code tools read and interpret our components. You'll be the architect of a system that serves both human designers and the AI tooling our engineering team relies on daily. If you obsess over semantic structure, token logic, and the intersection of design systems with modern AI-assisted development, this role was built for you.
What you will own
- Audit and rebuild the Sendwave library with machine readability as a first-class requirement. That includes semantic naming, structured metadata, and a token taxonomy (color, typography, spacing) that maps directly to variables and components.
- Build a Figma → Code workflow that keeps design and production code in sync, and prototype at least one end-to-end AI-assisted workflow the team can adopt after the contract ends.
- Partner with Engineering to align components so AI tools can traverse design and code counterparts predictably.
- Build "smart" components using Figma Properties, Nested Instances, and Auto Layout 5.0. All components should be structured for both designer usability and AI interpretability.
- Establish a lightweight component lifecycle process (versioning, deprecation, release notes) without over-engineering.
- Write living documentation focused on the why behind decisions, including AI-readability notes, so the system stays coherent as it evolves.
- Coach the design team on maintaining AI-legibility as the library grows.
What you bring to the table
- Expert-level Figma skills with proven experience building and shipping complex design systems, specifically using Variables, Modes, Multi-edit, and advanced component architecture.
- Demonstrated understanding of how AI coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, V0, Figma AI, or similar) consume design system data and how to structure a library to maximise their accuracy and usefulness.
- Strong grasp of front-end fundamentals: design tokens, CSS variables, component states, and API design. You don't need to write production code, but you should be fluent in engineering language.
- Experience designing for machine readability (semantic naming, structured metadata, token hierarchies) ideally with exposure to design-to-code or AI-assisted development workflows.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity: you can identify high-leverage structural decisions quickly and avoid over-engineering in a fast-moving environment.
- Portfolio or case studies that show measurable impact; for example reduced handoff friction, faster design cycles, or concrete examples of AI tooling working better because of how the system was structured.
If you want to join us in our journey to help break barriers in financial access and improve lives globally, there's no better place or time to join.
Our global team of 800+ people is spread across six continents. We aspire to hire the best mix of people from former Olympians to YouTube influencers and we speak over twenty languages. This incredible diversity isn't a bonus; it's the engine that lets us serve the world.
Ready to Apply? Let’s Go.