Lead Designer| | IND

We are seeking a passionate and experienced Lead Designer to own and evolve our Design System. This is a critical role that will shape the future of our products’ user experiences by creating a unified and scalable design language. You will be responsible for leading the design and maintenance of our design system, ensuring it empowers our product and engineering teams to build high-quality, consistent, and user-friendly experiences. We’re specifically looking to expand our library into AI components, motion interaction, and charting.

• →Design System Growth: Plan, scale, and monitor the design system, ensuring all components and guidelines are up-to-date and meet the needs of our product teams. This includes gathering requirements for component needs, writing up component specs, and accounting for as many use cases as possible
• →Technical Expertise: You will manage our design system from the design side, with a focus on the technical aspects. You will collaborate closely with our design system engineers to ensure consistency and rapid adoption of the design system
• →Compelling Design: Develop and produce visually compelling, user-focused design components that align with our business objectives. You will collaborate with our design system team to create inspiring brand-led digital communications
• →Team Leadership & Mentorship: Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of designers to foster a culture of creativity, collaboration, and growth. You will review and guide the work of junior designers to ensure high creative standards
• →Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders while actively participating in concept development and design iteration
• →User Advocacy: Champion a user-centered design approach, ensuring that all design decisions are grounded in user research and best practices
• →Innovation: Stay at the forefront of design trends, tools, and industry standards, and bring innovative ideas to the team. You'll have the opportunity to experiment with new technologies and creative workflows

• Experience: 8+ years of experience in product design, with a focus on design systems and design tokens
• An available online portfolio

• At least 5 years of Figma experience, especially with Figma component libraries, variants, merging, branching, prototyping, and publishing
• At least 3 years of experience using Tokens Studio
• Experience with designing enterprise-grade design systems with whitelabelling and theming
• Understanding basic React, HTML, and CSS
• An understanding of web standards, accessibility (WCAG 2.2), and APCA

• Proven ability to lead and mentor a team of designers
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions and build consensus
• Have a focused mindset for system scalability

• A strong portfolio demonstrating your ability to create innovative and effective design solutions

• You should be a creative problem-solver with a keen eye for detail. You should have a desire to reduce and simplify unnecessary complexity, while growing and scaling the system when required, all while designing reusable and scalable components

• Experience with Figma MCP
• Experience with Style Dictionary, Colbalt, or the similar
• Experience with Storybook, Zeroheight, or Ladle
• Experience with motion design and interaction design/illustrations using Rive, Lottie, or similar
• Experience creating Figma plugins