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For the last 40 years, we have been developing software to help construction companies streamline their operations.Based in Sugar Land, TX, our mission is helping customers achieve excellence through our proven customer-centric, end-to-end solutions and exceptionally helpful service, while providing a great life for our employees. With this mission at the core of everything we do, HCSS is a pioneer and leader in the construction software space and a consistently recognized employer. We have earned Best Companies to Work for in Texashonors for 18consecutive years and have been named a USA Today Top Workplace. HCSS has also been recognized by Built Inas a Best Place to Work in Greater Houstonand by Construction Executivefor our technology innovation, reflecting our strong culture, industry leadership, and commitment to excellence.\nWHO WE NEED:\nYou are the critical bridge between Product Design and Development. Architect, scale, and govern our design systems, treating them as living products that empower both designers and developers to build faster and more consistently. Your journey in this track begins with mastering component architecture, documentation, and baseline accessibility standards. As you advance into the development levels, your focus will expand to achieving 1:1 parity between our design libraries and codebase, integrating advanced tooling, and building AI-ready design infrastructure. This progressive track requires a unique blend of systems thinking, technical curiosity, and visual execution to drive a unified user experience across our entire product ecosystem.\nQualifications:\n3-5 Years of relevant work experience with a proven track record of bridging design assets and front-end code\nStrong working knowledge of development delivery automation and design-to-code integrations; actively reviews coded front-end components to ensure 1:1 visual parity with design assets\nAbility to operate with minimal oversight as a direct technical partner to Development, working alongside software developers to guide UI implementation instead of relying on traditional design deliverables.\nAdvanced proficiency in modern design collaboration platforms and design-to-code automation integrations\nProficiency in component-based front-end frameworks, UI component development environments, and agile project management tools\nAbility to look 1-2 quarters ahead to anticipate what coded UI components will need to be built, refactored, or safely adapted to prevent technical debt\nExperience conducting usability testing to ensure new patterns are intuitive for teams to implement\nAbility to use AI to accelerate development productivity by refining technical prompts, synthesizing complex UI logic, and integrating AI-assisted coding tools into workflows\nPreferred Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Interaction Design, HCI, Computer Science, or equivalent experience (preferred but not required)\nExperience configuring design token management systems or automated data pipelines that push assets directly from design platforms to code repositories\nBackground in optimizing the developer experience (DX) through the creation of interactive component sandboxes or developer playgrounds\nExperience managing complex system deprecation strategies (sunsetting old components across a live product ecosystem without breaking workflows)\nRole Responsibilities:\nArchitect, scale, and govern the design systems to ensure a clear, 1:1 translation between design assets and the front-end codebase, eliminating technical and UI debt. \nBuild systems that empower everyone (e.g., UX, product management, and development) to make sound design decisions.\nOwn and evolve the visual component library, ensuring strict architectural parity between design variants and development frameworks.\nGovern the creation of new patterns by actively reviewing and approving/rejecting custom UI requests to prevent system bloat.\nManage and scale the centralized design system documentation so it serves as the primary authority for everyone. Structure this documentation to ensure adherence to design standards without always requiring intensive UI work.\nCollaborate directly with development to map design tokens to code variables, optimizing the developer experience.\nAct as the definitive bridge between Product and Development, translating validated product and UX strategies into polished, functionally robust interfaces ready for development. \nManage the UX Enablement intake process, triaging component requests, and providing UI/IXD consultations to unblock technical implementation.\nProduce clean design artifacts, interaction specs, and redlines that significantly reduce guesswork for the development team, while prioritizing system improvements that enable cross-functional teams to build without needing continuous, intensive UI support.\nConduct research and usability testing focused on validating system patterns, ensuring components are intuitive for end-users (e.g., field personnel) and internal developers.\nLeverage market trends in UI/UX architecture (e.g., emerging AI interfaces, WCAG accessibility standards) to proactively shape the direction of the design systems.\nStructure and maintain machine-readable design documentation to ensure our systems are prepared for AI-assisted development.\nTravel Requirements:\nInitial Onboarding: During the first 3 months of employment, employees (in the Houston area) must work on-site at the Sugar Land office 3 days per week to ensure comprehensive training and integration.\nHybrid RequirementsFollowing the initial onboarding phase, employees transition to a flexible hybrid work model. \nIf an on-site workspace is requested, employees are expected to work from the Sugar Land office up to 2 days per week, subject to team needs and manager discretion.\n\nRemote RequirementsFully remote employees are expected to visit the Sugar Land office periodically up to once a Quarter\nEmployees will be expected to attend HCSS-sponsored events per the manager’s discretion (e.g., UGM).\n\nBENEFITS & PERKS:\nPart of our mission is to provide a great life for our employees. 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