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Design Operations Specialist

Bolt

Bolt

Design, Operations
Harju County, Estonia
Posted on Apr 18, 2025
We’re looking for a Design Operations Specialist to manage and optimize design workflows, ensuring efficiency and consistency across teams. This role focuses on maintaining and evolving the design system, improving design-to-engineering collaboration, and streamlining processes to uphold quality and accessibility standards.

About Us

With over 200 million users in 50+ countries, Bolt is one of the fastest-growing tech companies in Europe and Africa. And it's all thanks to our people.

We believe in creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome, regardless of race, colour, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, or ability.

Our ultimate goal is to make cities for people, not cars. And we need your help on this mission!

About The Role

As a Design Operations Specialist, you’ll play a key role in optimizing design workflows, maintaining the design system, and ensuring seamless collaboration between Design and Engineering teams.

You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to refine processes, enhance design hand-offs, and establish best practices that drive efficiency and quality. Your responsibilities will include organizing and maintaining Figma structures, documenting workflows, and ensuring accessibility standards are met.

Your ability to create structured, scalable systems and foster collaboration across teams will be essential to your success in this role.

Main tasks and responsibilities:

  • Maintaining, documenting, and evolving the design system, ensuring seamless integration of new components while meeting accessibility standards.
  • Optimizing design workflows by developing structured hand-off processes between Design and Engineering.
  • Supporting teams in improving and refining design processes, establishing best practices, and ensuring quality through design QA.
  • Managing Figma organization and tooling, defining and maintaining file structures, templates, and documentation for consistency and efficiency.
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance design operations and streamline processes to drive scalable, high-quality design outcomes.


About you:

  • You have experience in Design Operations or a similar role, ideally in a fast-paced technology or digital product environment.
  • You have a strong understanding of design systems, workflows, and tooling, with hands-on experience managing Figma file structures, templates, and documentation.
  • You are proficient in design and collaboration tools like Figma, Jira, Confluence, and other workflow management platforms.
  • You take initiative in optimizing processes, improving efficiency, and ensuring design consistency across teams.
  • You stay up-to-date with best practices in design operations, accessibility standards, and system scalability to enhance team productivity.
  • You are a strong communicator and collaborator, capable of working effectively with cross-functional teams and influencing stakeholders to drive operational excellence.


Experience is great, but what we really look for is drive, intelligence, and integrity. So even if you don’t tick every box, please consider applying!

Why you’ll love it here:

  • Play a direct role in shaping the future of mobility.
  • Impact millions of customers and partners in 600+ cities across 50+ countries.
  • Work in fast-moving autonomous teams with some of the smartest people in the world.
  • Accelerate your professional growth with unique career opportunities.
  • Get a rewarding salary and stock option package that lets you focus on doing your best work.
  • Enjoy the flexibility of working in a hybrid mode with a minimum of 2 days in the office each week to foster strong connections and teamwork.
  • Take care of your physical and mental health with our wellness perks.
  • Some perks may differ depending on your location and role.