Design System Lead

We are seeking an experienced Platform Design Systems Lead to guide the development, governance, adoption, and continuous improvement of design-system practices within an assigned digital product platform. This role ensures platform-specific components, design tokens, patterns, documentation, and implementation guidance align with established enterprise design-system standards while supporting scalable, consistent, accessible, and high-quality digital experiences.

We are seeking an experienced Platform Design Systems Lead to guide the development, governance, adoption, and continuous improvement of design-system practices within an assigned digital product platform. This role ensures platform-specific components, design tokens, patterns, documentation, and implementation guidance align with established enterprise design-system standards while supporting scalable, consistent, accessible, and high-quality digital experiences. The Platform Design Systems Lead will collaborate with design, engineering, product, accessibility, and enterprise design-system teams to translate organizational standards into practical platform solutions.

This position focuses on platform-level strategy, governance, documentation, adoption, technical enablement, and design-to-development workflows rather than ownership of the enterprise-wide design system. The ideal candidate combines strong design‑system expertise with front‑end technical knowledge, an understanding of CI/CD and release processes, and the ability to influence cross‑functional teams. While hands‑on development experience is valuable, the primary focus is on improving design‑system adoption, implementation consistency, accessibility, and operational efficiency.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Employer-Paid Life Insurance
• Employer-Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid Time Off (PTO) that includes Vacation Leave, Sick Leave, and 11 Paid Holidays
• Educational Assistance

Salary: $90-124K

• An In Person interview will be required for this role**

• Define and maintain the platform design-system roadmap in alignment with product objectives, platform priorities, accessibility requirements, and enterprise design-system standards.
• Promote adoption of approved design patterns, components, design tokens, documentation, and contribution practices across the assigned platform.
• Represent platform requirements, constraints, and feedback in enterprise design-system discussions to support practical implementation.
• Provide recommendations to leadership regarding design-system priorities, technical gaps, adoption challenges, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborate with design, engineering, product, accessibility, and enterprise design-system teams to ensure platform solutions meet business, user, technical, and accessibility requirements.
• Establish and maintain platform-level governance processes, contribution workflows, intake procedures, decision criteria, and implementation standards.
• Facilitate collaboration between designers, developers, and stakeholders to improve design-to-development handoffs, clarify ownership, and align expectations.
• Coordinate with enterprise design-system partners on cross-platform requirements, standards, and decisions.
• Evaluate front‑end implementation feasibility and provide technical guidance regarding design-system components, patterns, and design tokens.
• Partner with front‑end engineers to ensure components and patterns are accessible, performant, reusable, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Support improvements to CI/CD and release processes for…