Design Systems Lead

We are looking for a Design Systems Lead for our client, one of the world's largest natural resource companies. The role will focus on establishing and evolving a unified design system across an enterprise-grade Commodity Trading & Risk Management (CTRM) platform built on multiple micro-frontends.

The platform (COMET) requires a single accountable expert to define, govern, and scale a consistent UI layer across teams. The successful candidate will ensure that design and implementation remain fully aligned by owning the end-to-end design system lifecycle, from Figma design standards to front-end component implementation.

This is a senior, hands‑on individual contributor role with no direct reports, requiring strong expertise in both UX systems design and front-end engineering practices. The individual will act as the key authority for UI consistency, reuse, and design governance across multiple development teams.

• Own and evolve the enterprise design system including components, patterns, and design tokens
• Define and manage versioning, documentation standards, contribution model, and deprecation lifecycle for UI assets
• Improve and maintain the design token pipeline and ensure seamless design-to-code synchronization
• Expand and govern Storybook as the canonical component library for the platform
• Implement and enforce visual regression testing for UI consistency across releases
• Define and enforce UI Definition of Done, ensuring reuse of existing components and tokens
• Run intake, triage, and governance process ensuring teams prioritize reuse over duplication
• Enforce design system compliance through code reviews, linting rules, and onboarding standards
• Monitor, analyze, and report adoption metrics and UI drift to UX/UI Lead and Front-End Lead
• Collaborate closely with design, engineering, and platform teams to ensure alignment between UX vision and implementation

• Proven experience building and/or operating an enterprise-scale design system
• Strong hands‑on experience with Figma in a design system context
• Deep knowledge of design tokens, token architecture, and design-to-code pipelines
• Practical experience with Storybook and component library governance
• Experience implementing or working with visual regression testing frameworks
• Strong expertise in CSS/SCSS and scalable UI architecture patterns
• Solid understanding of modern front‑end engineering practices (micro‑frontends is a plus)
• Experience working in large‑scale, multi‑team enterprise environments
• Ability to operate as a senior individual contributor with strong ownership mindset
• Strong communication skills and ability to drive adoption across engineering teams

• Experience in data‑dense enterprise applications (e.g., trading, finance, analytics platforms)
• Hands‑on engineering background in front‑end development
• Exposure to Angular‑based enterprise applications
• Experience working in or around micro‑frontend architectures
• Knowledge or exposure to backend systems in enterprise environments
• Experience with AI‑assisted development workflows or "agentic AI" tooling for engineering productivity