An established financial services organization is seeking a Platform Design Systems Lead to support a remote team. This role focuses on advancing platform-level design systems through governance, documentation, accessibility, and cross-functional collaboration to help deliver scalable and consistent digital experiences.
About the Opportunity:
Schedule: Monday to Friday
Hours: Standard business
Setting: Remote
Responsibilities:
Define and evolve the platform design-system roadmap in alignment with product goals, platform priorities, accessibility expectations, and enterprise guidance
Champion adoption of approved design patterns, tokens, components, documentation, and contribution practices within the assigned platform
Partner with design, engineering, product, accessibility, and leadership stakeholders to translate platform needs into practical implementation and governance improvements
Apply front-end technical fluency to evaluate implementation feasibility, identify technical gaps, and support effective design-to-development handoff practices
Build and maintain platform documentation, support training and enablement efforts, and help improve consistency, quality, and adoption across product teams
Perform other duties, as needed
Qualifications:
At least 5 years of experience in design systems, product design, design operations, front-end engineering, or a related digital product discipline
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
Proven track record of leading, governing, or significantly contributing to design-system adoption for a product area, platform, or large-scale digital experience
Working knowledge of front-end technologies, including HTML, CSS or SCSS, JavaScript or TypeScript, and modern component frameworks or libraries such as React or Vue
Familiarity with design token management, theming systems, component-library architecture, and cross-platform implementation considerations
Understanding of CI/CD concepts relevant to design-system delivery, including build, test, release, versioning, documentation, dependency, and quality-check workflows
Strong understanding of design principles, UI/UX best practices, accessibility standards, and inclusive digital experience practices, including WCAG
Experience with design tools such as Figma and documentation platforms such as Storybook or Zeroheight
Excellent communication, facilitation, leadership, stakeholder management, and change-management skills
Desired Skills:
Experience partnering with front-end engineering teams on component-library workflows, design token pipelines, CI/CD practices, platform release governance, or documentation automation
Hands-on experience creating front-end prototypes, implementation examples, or component documentation using modern web technologies
Experience supporting a hybrid design-system model where enterprise guidance is adapted into platform-specific implementation and adoption practices
Background in design operations, design tooling, documentation strategy, or platform-level design-system governance
Experience supporting accessibility audits, design-system quality reviews, adoption measurement, or contribution-model improvement
