Design System Manager
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Job description
Our Product Design team brings together Product Designers who, beyond their product scope, actively contribute to maintaining and evolving our Design System across platforms. To scale the quality, consistency, and efficiency of our platform experience, we are hiring a Design System Manager who will own the functional and technical scope of the Design System. This role works closely with Product squads, partnering with designers on component design and with engineers on implementation and migration. It is a highly collaborative and coordination-driven position, ensuring alignment across Product and Engineering while turning design intent into an industrialized, scalable, and continuously improving system, aligned with Product and Engineering. "At the intersection of design, engineering, and automation, this role makes high-quality product experiences scalable by default." - Claire Gautier, Head of Design linkedin.com/in/clairegautier, + Audit the current Design System (components, tokens, tooling, adoption, migrations)
- Identify where the Design System creates or blocks product impact today
- Map stakeholders, ownership, and decision paths across Design, Product, and Engineering, + Own a clear, prioritized Design System roadmap driven by product impact and engineering constraints Run an operational delivery flow for components and tokens (design
- implementation)
- Define prioritization criteria (product roadmap, usage in prod, technical constraints)
- Define and track baseline Design System KPIs (adoption, usage, migration progress, contributions)
- Set up working rituals to prepare roadmap ownership, + Compensation: Package includes base salary, a variable component and equity
- Benefits/Perks: Work From Home stipend, RTT, lunch vouchers, medical insurance, gym subscription, 1 month parental leave for the second parent.
- Balance: Flexible hours, full remote work possible anywhere in France
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: We have 6 active ERGs including Mental Health, Environmental/Sustainability, Women, Parents, LGBTQIA2S+, and Ethnic Diversity. Each group has at least one executive team member serving as a member of the group, bringing greater awareness to each group's activities and providing a quick path to impact
- Corporate Social Responsibility: Review our CSR Charter: 360learning.com/blog/corporate-social-responsibility-charter
- Culture: A framework that will help you make an impact - envision our way of working and our Convexity Culture:https://bit.ly/Convexity_360L & find out more about the teams, product and processes https://bit.ly/42H1ggC, + Phone screen with our Talent Acquisition Manager
- Discovery meeting with the Head of Product Design
- Case study with a Product Designer and a Lead Software Engineer
- Clarification meeting with a Group Product Manager & our VP engineering
- Culture Fit Meeting with our Chief Product Officer
- Ref Checks
- Offer!
Requirements
Do you have experience in System design?, + 6+ years of experience working on or closely with Design Systems in a product environment
- Ability to define and own a long-term Design System direction, with a focus on scalability and sustainability
- Experience evolving fragmented or partially adopted systems into reliable, widely used platforms
- Hands-on experience with design tokens, multi-platform components, and Figma libraries at scale
- Familiarity with automation workflows (token pipelines, documentation, component lifecycle tooling)
- Interest or experience in using AI-assisted tools for documentation, audits, accessibility, or design-to-code workflows
- Good understanding of component-based development (e.g. React, SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose) and Git-based collaboration
- Experience collaborating closely with Engineering to navigate trade-offs and support high-quality implementation
- Working knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG and/or RGAA) and how to apply them in systems
- Fluent English (US/UK) / B2 level or equivalent (FR)
- Enthusiasm for our working environment explained here: https://bit.ly/Convexity_360L