Product Design Leadership Specialist

Design System Leadership Role

This role combines system-focused design leadership with operational expertise.

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• Develop a vision for how design systems can accelerate innovation and improve user experiences.">
• Establish tight collaboration with product teams to ensure the design system is solving the right problems.">
• Oversee the expansion and maintenance of a robust design system for the authoring experience, enabling consistency and efficiency across products.">

Platform Experiences Leadership

Strategically define and manage execution of scalable system designs for shared experiences across products.

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• Element Detection: Powering no-code experiences across all products.">
• Configurations, User Management, and Admin Systems: Ensuring seamless, scalable functionality across platforms.">
• Diagnostics: Streamlining a customer testing system across our products.">

Developer Experience and Operations

Drive adoption of design systems within product teams and ensure accessibility standards are seamlessly embedded into design and development workflows.

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• Collaborate with design, product, and engineering stakeholders to define and implement scalable engineering and design workflows and best practices.">
• Create and optimize tooling, communication frameworks, environments, sandboxes, and operational systems that improve design and developer experience and productivity.">
• Establish scalable processes for distributed design and developer teams and cross-functional initiatives, ensuring alignment and efficiency across the organization.">

Required Skills and Qualifications

The ideal candidate has:

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• 5-10 years of design experience, with a focus on Design Systems, UX, and Product Design.">
• 2+ years of leadership experience, managing design teams and/or operational functions.">
• Demonstrated hands-on leadership, actively involved in daily design decisions. This is not solely a people-management role.">
• Deep expertise in design systems, accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG), information architecture, and scalable system design across products.">
• Proven success in implementing design workflows, tools, and processes that improve team efficiency and effectiveness.">

Attributes

The successful candidate will possess:

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• Strategic Vision: Ability to align design initiatives with broader business objectives.">
• Exceptional Communication: Skilled in influencing and collaborating with stakeholders across disciplines and levels.">
• User Advocacy: Adept at driving product design and UX decisions that center on user needs.">
• Influence and Buy-In: Proven ability to build trust with others to foster support for new processes and enhance existing workflows.">
• Process-Oriented: Able to work with ProductOps within the organization on shared operational initiatives.">
• Data-driven: Able to identify key metrics, measure, and provide evidence of Design and the Design Systems operational success.">

Benefits

This role offers:

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• A Systems-Minded Opportunity: Perfect for a leader passionate about improving design quality through scalable systems and processes.">
• Dual Focus: A unique chance to work at the intersection of system-focused product design and operational excellence.">
• Innovative Challenges: Be part of a team shaping the DAP category across multiple products, leading cutting-edge design projects.">
• Empowering Teams: Coach and mentor your team to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment while driving innovation through human-centered design.">
• Impactful Work: Solve diverse, complex challenges that deliver real value to customers and drive business success.">

Reporting Structure

This role reports directly to the Head of Product Research and Design.