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Design System Lead / UX Product Manager / Product Designer 100% Onsite Role[Local to Ohio]

SmartIPlaceabout 1 month ago
Columbus, OH, United States
On-site
Full-time
Junior Level (1-3 years)
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Job Description

Position: Program Manager 4 (Design System Lead)

Location: Columbus, OH

Visa: Any Visa except CPT, TN and GC (PP number is mandatory to fetch I94)

Interview Type: MS TEAMS interview

Duties include:

  • Leading and Evolving the Design System: Manage Design Operations meetings and processes to oversee the addition and enhancement of the design system through a structured process. Manage the product roadmap.
  • Establishing, Documenting, and Communicating: Define design guidelines, patterns, and standards. Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation.
  • Managing Stakeholders: Collaborate with designers, developers, and executives to understand needs and drive alignment.
  • Community Building: Foster a healthy design system community through feedback loops and regular communication.
  • Ensuring Accessibility and Inclusivity: Advocate for inclusive design practices, ensuring that the system adheres to accessibility standards and meets the needs of diverse users.
  • Governance & Quality: Develop processes for component reviews, documentation standards, and quality assurance to ensure the system remains reliable.

Skills

  • Required / Desired
  • Candidate's Amount of Experience in years
  • Design System Lead, Product Manager, or similar
  • Required: 4
  • Deep understanding of design systems, component-based architecture, and design tokens
  • Required
  • Experience collaborating effectively with design and engineering teams
  • Required
  • Strong communication and cross-functional leadership skills; ability to influence without authority
  • Required
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and driving clarity in complex, fast-moving environments
  • Required
  • Track record of shipping products and learning from user feedback
  • Required
  • Familiarity with design system tools (Figma, Storybook)
  • Highly desired
  • Background in UX/UI design, frontend engineering, or design leadership
  • Highly desired
  • Experience scaling design systems across multiple product teams
  • Highly desired
  • Experience scaling design systems across multiple product teams
  • Highly desired

Required Skills

Design System Lead
Figma
Collaboration with design and engineering teams
Product feedback evaluation
Cross-functional leadership
Storybook
Strong communication skills
UX/UI design
Product Management
Frontend engineering
Comfortable with ambiguity