Design System Design Manager

Location

Location for this position is flexible; we are accepting candidates who can work Hybrid in either our Osterley or Leeds office.

As a Design System Design Manager in our digital customer experience team, you’ll own the creation of world-class customer experiences and deliver transformative solutions across  and the My Sky app via our design system. You’ll lead Agile teams, drive design strategy, and be accountable for outcomes that reflect our brand and meet customer needs.

Sitting within the Customer Experience Centre of Excellence, you’ll support CX strategy, design excellence, and performance across product roadmaps for the UK & Ireland. From joining Sky to engaging with our latest services, we’re driven by one purpose: to create better experiences for our customers.

• Lead a small team of product designers to deliver world‑class, innovative, and intuitive evidence‑based user experiences across web and native platforms.
• Own the Sky design system strategic direction, ensuring scalability, governance, and alignment with product strategy and business goals.
• Partner with engineering, product, research and analytics to ensure system usability, performance, and brand consistency across platforms.
• Be responsible for system architecture, tokenisation, documentation quality, and design‑engineering parity, while using AI tools and engaging with Design Ops to improve efficiency.
• Champion inclusive design and embed WCAG 2.2 accessibility standards across all components, patterns, and motion principles.
• Shape the end‑to‑end experience vision, define CX KPIs, and link design system adoption to measurable business outcomes.

• Demonstrated experience delivering world‑class, large‑scale digital products and design systems across responsive web and native applications.
• Expert-level skills with component libraries, token structures and conditional prototyping for scalable systems.
• Mastery in accessibility to create inclusive experiences, using user research methods to understand customer problems and behaviours, and analytics tools (Usertesting, Adobe Analytics) to interpret user behaviour and analyse performance.
• Proven experience partnering with developers on component implementation, governance pipelines, and code alignment.
• Strong storytelling, stakeholder influence and resilience in fast‑paced, evolving environments.

We’d love to see examples of your work. If you have a portfolio, or any selection of project artefacts, please share pieces that demonstrate your strengths in the following areas:

• People – How you’ve built, supported or enabled high‑performing teams.
• Process – How you apply scalable user‑centred design methods to deliver measurable outcomes.
• Position – How you influence strategy and champion design across an organisation.
• Product – How your work has shaped world‑class, app‑first digital experiences, with clear outcomes and impact.

If you don’t have a formal portfolio, links, slide decks, case studies or short write‑ups are all welcome. Choose whatever best tells the story of your contribution. We need to understand the process, the user needs, business goals, design changes based on evidence gathered, and customer outcomes & business impact.

• Sky Q – for the TV you love, all in one place.
• The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate.
• A generous pension package.
• Private healthcare.
• Discounted mobile and broadband.
• A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences.

The hybrid working expectations for this role are 3 days in the office per week. At Sky we want to be a community that thrives by being together. Flexible working remains a key part of that. We want our people to have the best of both worlds – time working at home, as well as time in the office.

• London (Osterley) – Our Osterley Campus is a 10‑minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There are also plenty of bike shelters and showers. On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can…