About the Role
This role is responsible for shaping the core design infrastructure, guiding cross-functional teams, and establishing best practices that elevate the quality and coherence of the product design language.
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain the organization's design system and component library
- Establish standards for accessibility, usability, and visual consistency
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams to align design strategy with business goals
- Mentor and develop a team of design professionals
- Drive initiatives to improve design tooling and workflow efficiency
- Champion design quality across all customer-facing products
- Lead audits of existing interfaces to identify improvement opportunities
- Ensure design practices support rapid iteration and scalability
- Foster a culture of design thinking across departments
- Oversee documentation and governance of design assets
- Coordinate with international teams to ensure global design coherence
- Integrate user research insights into foundational design decisions
- Advocate for inclusive and ethical design principles
- Manage roadmap for design system enhancements
- Evaluate emerging design technologies and methodologies
- Promote adoption of design standards through training and support
- Align design language with brand identity and market positioning
- Monitor performance metrics related to design effectiveness
- Facilitate cross-product design consistency
- Lead design operations for efficiency and impact
Nice to Have
- Experience in marketplace or consumer-facing digital platforms
- Background in design operations or design engineering
- Knowledge of design token systems and theming
- Experience with design system analytics
- Prior work in scaling design organizations
Compensation
Competitive salary and benefits package
Work Arrangement
Hybrid work model
Team
Part of the global product design leadership team
About the Team
This position operates within a distributed design leadership group focused on elevating product quality through unified design standards and innovation.
Impact
Your work will directly influence how design is practiced and perceived across the organization, enabling faster delivery and higher consistency in product experiences.
Available for eligible candidates
