Design Systems LeadActive$220K–$280K

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Hybrid · San FranciscoCreative

The opportunity

About the role We're seeking a Design Systems Lead with extensive experience owning design systems at large organizations. You'll bootstrap an intuitive semantic token system that supports design and product teams across multiple platforms and frameworks - the foundation that…

What they're looking for

  • Own clear, first-class documentation so teams can adopt components and tokens: on their own, and drive adoption across the org through onboarding, office hours, and hands-on support
  • Bake in accessibility (WCAG) and theming (including dark mode) as defaults, not afterthoughts
  • Maintain a system roadmap, balancing net-new work, migrations, and deprecations against feature-team needs
  • Bring new AI tooling into the design systems workflow and help shape how we build systems in an AI-native way