Senior Design System Lead

Position Responsibilities

• AI-Driven Design Operations: Integrate AI tools and workflows into the design system lifecycle to automate asset creation, code generation, and documentation.
• Ecosystem Strategy: Oversee and scale the entire design system ecosystem, ensuring seamless integration across various platforms (Web, iOS, Android), sub-brands, and business units.
• Strategy & Roadmap: Define the vision, governance model, and long-term roadmap for the design system to support multi-platform growth.
• Documentation & Standards: Create and maintain clear usage guidelines, contribution rules, and component documentation to support consistent adoption of the design system.
• Governance & Component Lifecycle: Establish standard processes for proposing, creating, testing, versioning, approving exceptions, and deprecating system assets to ensure new components and patterns align with system standards.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product Designers, Engineers, and Product Managers to align design assets, support adoption, and maintain design system standards across teams.
• System Maintenance: Manage design libraries in Figma and collaborate with engineering to maintain corresponding front-end code repositories.
• Adoption & Enablement: Promote system adoption, run training workshops, write documentation, and support onboarding for new team members.
• Metrics & Reporting: Define, track, and share design system success metrics, such as adoption rates and design/development velocity gains.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience)

• 1+ years hands-on experience leveraging AI plugins, LLMs/ML, or prompt engineering to generate code tokens, automate Figma workflows, or draft system documentation.
• 3+ years experience managing complex design system ecosystems, including handling cross-platform synchronization, multi-brand themes, and token management systems (e.g., Tokens Studio, Figma Variables).
• 3+ years in Product Design, UI Engineering, or Design Operations.
• 3+ years expertise in Figma including variables, auto-layout, component properties, strong naming conventions, file structure, version control practices, and library management.
• 3+ years of front-end code and technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, token architecture, and frameworks like Angular, React and SwiftUI).

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience)

• Systems Thinking: Expert ability to conceptualize complex, scalable UI patterns and understand how individual components impact the entire ecosystem.
• Operational Skills: Strong organization and program management skills, including prioritization, release coordination, and tracking system work.
• Leadership: Proven ability to influence without authority, manage multiple stakeholders, and advocate for system-level changes.
• Accessibility: Strong knowledge of WCAG standards and how to build accessible design components.