Telstra is looking for a Design Systems Senior Specialist to be the custodian of scalable, personalized content across our digital channels. You will create metadata-rich design systems, assets, and templates that can be found, customized, and syndicated at speed, blending governance rigor with operational enablement.
What You'll Do
- Collaborate with AEM Foundations developers to design reusable assets for build and re-use.
- Partner with Content Production teams to ensure design systems enable speed and creativity.
- Monitor consumption patterns and performance of design system components across channels.
- Align design system evolution with best practice standards, accessibility requirements, and brand governance.
- Help maintain documentation, usage guidelines, and governance protocols.
- Track adoption and identify opportunities for optimisation and simplification.
- Support integration of design systems into workflows and tooling (e.g., CAAS, Figma, AEM, Workfront, Firefly, Co-Pilot, Chat GPT, Adobe Express).
- Contribute to the strategic roadmap for design system scalability and enterprise alignment.
What We're Looking For
- Design system architecture and component development.
- Design best practice application.
- Motion design.
- AI fluency – LLM fluency, prompt UX design, ethical design principles, AI design.
- API integration.
- Figma library creation and management.
- AEM, Adobe Express, GEO and CMS integration awareness.
- Accessibility and inclusive design standards.
- Governance enforcement and documentation.
- Pipeline management and prioritisation.
- Collaboration with designers, developers, and content teams.
- Performance tracking and optimisation.
- Strategic planning for system evolution and scalability.
Technical Stack
- Figma
- AEM
- Adobe Express
- CMS
- Workfront
- Firefly
- Co-Pilot
- Chat GPT
Team & Environment
Work across Content COE, Workfront team and the design ABLE teams.
Benefits & Compensation
- Performance-related pay.
- Access to thousands of learning programs.
- Global presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business.
- Purchased annual leave scheme.
- Additional Telstra day off.
- Additional 30% off Telstra products and services.
- Toolkit provided (laptop + mobile phone + plan paid for).
Work Mode
Global presence across 22 countries.
We actively seek individuals from various backgrounds, ethnicities, genders and disabilities because we know that diversity not only strengthens our team but also enriches our work.




