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MathWorks is hiring a UX Design Operations Specialist to advance consistency, efficiency, and quality across all digital experiences. The role involves managing design systems and collaborating with design, engineering, and brand teams to improve workflows, standards, and user experiences across MathWorks products.

Highlights

Develop and maintain scalable design operations processes, templates, and documentation.
Manage Figma libraries, variables, and shared assets, supporting component usage and documentation.
Author and maintain design standards and guidelines in collaboration with design leads.
Improve user experience and content structure of the Parula design system website.
Collaborate cross-functionally with front-end, accessibility, and brand teams for alignment and quality.
Requires a bachelor's degree with 6 years of experience or advanced degree with relevant experience.
STEM degree preferred, with proficiency in Figma or similar design tools.
Strong organizational, communication, and documentation skills.
Knowledge of design systems, component-driven design, and accessibility fundamentals.
Experience with design system websites and productivity tools like Jira, Confluence, and SharePoint is a plus.

UX Design Operations Specialist Full Description

UX Design Operations Specialist

Team: User Experience
Location: US-MA-Natick
Salary Range: $119,200 - $184,800

Job Summary

Would you like to join a UX Design Operations team that advances consistency, efficiency, and quality across all MathWorks digital experiences?

This role combines strong design operations practices with hands-on design system management—bridging design, engineering, and brand teams to streamline processes, manage shared assets, and improve design workflows. You’ll bring systems thinking and curiosity to how design teams work, helping shape scalable practices that make great design easier to create and maintain.

We’re dedicated to crafting clear and effective designs for technical software products that improve the world. You may be right for this role if you:

Balance big-picture systems thinking with care for the details that make great design possible.
Can work independently and collaboratively within a distributed, cross-functional team
Are eager to learn and work across tools, technologies, and organizational boundaries

Our user experience team has over 100 passionate professionals with experience in user research, usability testing, and design. As strategic business partners, we work closely with our product teams and contribute throughout the product development life cycle to develop new products, features, and enhance legacy products.

Learn more about our UX team

Responsibilities

As a member of the UX Design Operations team, you will collaborate with designers, developers, and stakeholders across MathWorks to enhance and scale our design system. You will apply a systems-thinking mindset and a user-centered approach to improve design workflows, evolve shared standards, and enable consistent, high-quality user experiences across MathWorks products and applications.

Design Operations: Develop and maintain scalable processes, templates, and documentation that improve the efficiency and quality of UX design work across teams.
Figma Management: Govern Figma libraries, variables, and shared assets; support component naming, versioning, and usage analytics; and create documentation or tooling that supports designers’ adoption.
Design Standards: Author and maintain design standards and guidelines; collaborate with design leads and SMEs to ensure accuracy and clarity; support governance reviews and documentation updates.
Design System Website UX: Contribute to user experience and content structure of the Parula design system website; ensure standards and guidance are discoverable, consistent, and accessible.
Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with teams contributing to front-end frameworks, icons and graphics, design tokens, accessibility, and brand/marketing to ensure system-wide alignment and high-quality delivery.

Minimum Qualifications

A bachelor's degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or a PhD degree, or equivalent experience) is required.

Additional Qualifications

STEM Degree (e.g., Engineering, Learning Technology, Cognitive Sciences, Human Computer Interaction, or other relevant degree)
Proficiency with Figma or similar design tools (e.g. Adobe Creative Cloud, Sketch), including library management, auto layout, components, and variables
Strong organizational, communication, and documentation skills
Understanding of design systems, component-driven design, and accessibility fundamentals
Experience contributing to or managing design system websites a plus (e.g., WordPress, Storybook, Zeroheight)
Experience with basic development, automation flows, and AI prompt development a plus
Experience (especially administrative) in productivity tools such as Jira, Confluence, and SharePoint a plus

Original Job Description

UX Design Operations Specialist

Team: User Experience
Location: US-MA-Natick
Salary Range: $119,200 - $184,800

Job Summary

Would you like to join a UX Design Operations team that advances consistency, efficiency, and quality across all MathWorks digital experiences?

We’re dedicated to crafting clear and effective designs for technical software products that improve the world. You may be right for this role if you:

Balance big-picture systems thinking with care for the details that make great design possible.
Can work independently and collaboratively within a distributed, cross-functional team
Are eager to learn and work across tools, technologies, and organizational boundaries

Learn more about our UX team

Responsibilities

Design Operations: Develop and maintain scalable processes, templates, and documentation that improve the efficiency and quality of UX design work across teams.
Figma Management: Govern Figma libraries, variables, and shared assets; support component naming, versioning, and usage analytics; and create documentation or tooling that supports designers’ adoption.
Design Standards: Author and maintain design standards and guidelines; collaborate with design leads and SMEs to ensure accuracy and clarity; support governance reviews and documentation updates.
Design System Website UX: Contribute to user experience and content structure of the Parula design system website; ensure standards and guidance are discoverable, consistent, and accessible.
Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with teams contributing to front-end frameworks, icons and graphics, design tokens, accessibility, and brand/marketing to ensure system-wide alignment and high-quality delivery.

Minimum Qualifications

A bachelor's degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or a PhD degree, or equivalent experience) is required.

Additional Qualifications

STEM Degree (e.g., Engineering, Learning Technology, Cognitive Sciences, Human Computer Interaction, or other relevant degree)
Proficiency with Figma or similar design tools (e.g. Adobe Creative Cloud, Sketch), including library management, auto layout, components, and variables
Strong organizational, communication, and documentation skills
Understanding of design systems, component-driven design, and accessibility fundamentals
Experience contributing to or managing design system websites a plus (e.g., WordPress, Storybook, Zeroheight)
Experience with basic development, automation flows, and AI prompt development a plus
Experience (especially administrative) in productivity tools such as Jira, Confluence, and SharePoint a plus

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