Design Systems Designer

Location: The main location for this role is Solna. There may be opportunities to work from other Saab sites as well, as long as you are comfortable making regular visits to Solna.

Join Saab's strategic journey to evolve defence through software, AI, and shared digital platforms — where you'll play a vital role in enabling teams to deliver better, faster, and more unified user experiences.

We are looking for a passionate and experienced Design System Designer to join a newly formed design team in Saab's Product Tech organization. In this role, you will be instrumental in shaping and maintaining our design system, developing common patterns and UI components, and supporting teams across the organisation in adopting new systems and procedures. You will work closely with developers, product owners, and designers to understand the end users' perspectives and ensure a consistent, high-quality design system that supports scalable and efficient user experiences across our digital products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define our design system and component library from initial conception through launch and ongoing iteration for improvement
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, end-users, and relevant roles to develop reusable UI components that prioritise clarity and maintain institutional or product identity through effective aesthetics
• Define and drive best practices, evaluating opportunities such as Figma MCP and design-to-code processes using generative AI.
• Enabling modularity from a UX perspective as part of our modular software architecture 
• Provide guidance and support adoption across mission critical applications in various domains and platforms, ensuring universal design consistency, compliance, accessibility and usability

You will be part of a collaborative and forward-thinking team that values innovation, quality, and user-centred design. We offer opportunities for professional growth, a supportive work environment, and the chance to make a meaningful impact on the digital experiences we deliver across the organisation.

You are an engaged and self-motivated UX professional who thrives in environments where curiosity, collaboration, and initiative are valued. You enjoy shaping early ideas into meaningful direction and contributing to a supportive, growing design culture. With a thoughtful, open-minded, and solution-oriented approach, you bring energy and clarity to complex challenges. Your patience, positive attitude, and willingness to explore new perspectives help create momentum and elevate the team's design practice over time.

Required:

• Proven experience in designing design systems and component libraries.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating design system contributions and UI/UX design skills.
• High proficiency in Figma
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• Ability to work across teams and influence design practices at scale.
• Ability to communicate fluently in both Swedish and English.

Preferred:

• Experience working in large-scale software organisations.
• Familiarity with front-end development and JavaScript libraries (e.g., React, Angular).

This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.

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Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 26,100 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.

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Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.