Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Matlen Silver is a company with over 40 years of experience delivering solutions for talent and technology needs. They are seeking an Instructional Designer - Experience Systems Specialist to ensure the integrity of the Client’s website experience system through the application of accessibility standards and effective collaboration with design and engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Apply and validate accessibility standards across .com experiences
- Partner with the enterprise design system team to apply established WCAG 2.2 AA standards to .com-specific templates, components, and launch experiences
- Conduct pre-launch accessibility reviews on .com experiences to confirm experience system standards are correctly implemented in production
- Conduct accessibility annotations across templates, components, and interaction states - documenting how standards should be applied to reusable page models, not defining the standards themselves
- Identify and surface accessibility gaps to the design system team early in the design process - before they become build problems in the template
- Flag accessibility questions or ambiguities to the design system team; this role applies standards to the experience system, it does not set them
- Ensure template and interaction intent translates accurately to front-end implementation - closing the gap between what was designed and what shipped
- Partner with front-end engineering to communicate template requirements, interaction states, and edge cases
- Validate templates and implemented experiences against established experience system standards before launch
- Translate template and interaction requirements into system-ready specs that engineering can act on without ambiguity
- Contribute to template architecture and component specifications within the Client’s website experience system - ensuring reusable page models are built for scale
- Stress-test templates against dynamic and edge-case content to ensure structure, accessibility, and consistency hold across the experience ecosystem
- Validate structured content against template requirements - ensuring authoring flexibility doesn't compromise template integrity
- Identify recurring inconsistencies in template application and surface them to the .com Experience Design Lead for system-level resolution
- Ensure templates, components, and tokens are consistently applied across the experience ecosystem
- Support content model and AI readiness
- Partner with design and content teams to validate that structured content types are compatible with defined template patterns and reusable page models
- Contribute to authoring validation - ensuring that what authors can do in the CMS matches what the experience system is designed to support
- Help evaluate templates and content structures for AI-readiness, including generative content surfaces and GEO (generative engine optimization) considerations
- Flag where template flexibility could create structural inconsistency under AI-assisted publishing conditions
- Serve as the .com team's primary liaison to the enterprise design system and front-end engineering - translating .com template and experience requirements into the language the design system team can act on
- Ensure design system updates are correctly interpreted and applied across .com templates and reusable page models
- Translate template and experience requirements into design system contribution requests or new component specifications when .com needs are not yet covered
- Maintain awareness of design system updates and communicate implications for .com templates and patterns
- Escalate cross-system conflicts to the .com Experience Design Lead for resolution
Skills
- 4-6 years of experience in UX, product design, or design systems - with a strong focus on template systems, design QA, design-to-development handoff, or experience-level accessibility validation
- Working knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA standards and practical experience applying and reviewing accessibility in production template environments
- Strong understanding of experience system architecture, reusable page models, component libraries, and token-based design - and how to apply them correctly at the experience level
- Familiarity with structured content models and CMS-driven design - understanding how authoring constraints shape what templates can do
- Experience working in cross-functional teams with engineering, product, and content partners
- Systems thinker - you see the pattern behind the problem, not just the problem itself
- Template-integrity minded - you understand that every one-off exception is a cost to the system, and you protect reusability without being rigid
- Clear communicator - you can translate technical requirements into design language, and template intent into engineering specs
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity - you know when to make a call and when to escalate
- Collaborative but opinionated - you bring a point of view and know how to advocate for quality without being precious about it
- Proficiency in Figma, including component libraries, auto-layout, and annotation workflows
- Familiarity with front-end HTML/CSS is a strong plus - you don't need to code, but you need to understand what you're handing off to
- Experience with accessibility testing tools (axe, Colour Contrast Analyser, screen reader testing)
Benefits
- Health, vision, and dental insurance (single and family coverage)
- 401(k) plan (employee contributions only)
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