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# Lead Design Systems /x)

- **Company:** Deutsche Telekom AG
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Web Accessibility, Adobe InDesign, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** August 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.xing.com/jobs/berlin-lead-design-systems-157049788

## About the Role

You hold a degree in Design or a related discipline combined with several years of experience leading large-scale design systems in complex product organizations. In addition to your experience in influencing multidisciplinary teams across Design, Engineering and Product you have following skills:

 * Proven experience leading enterprise-scale design systems.
 * Strong design leadership with the ability to influence without formal authority.
 * Excellent interaction, visual and systems design skills.
 * Technical fluency with design tokens, front-end frameworks and design tooling.
 * Deep knowledge of accessibility and inclusive design.
 * Strategic thinking aligned with business and product goals.
 * Outstanding communication, facilitation and stakeholder management.
 * Cross-functional leadership and change management capabilities.
 * Fluent English; German is a plus.

## Description

As Lead Design Systems (m/f/d ) you define and evolve the vision and strategy for Telekom's design system together with Design, Engineering and Product leadership. You drive design system initiatives across cross-functional teams while providing expert design leadership and have further tasks such as:

 * Own and evolve components, tokens, patterns and guidelines to ensure consistency, quality and accessibility.
 * Enable designers, engineers and product teams to adopt, contribute to and continuously improve the design system.
 * Balance standardization with flexibility, enabling innovation within shared foundations.
 * Champion accessibility and inclusive design as core principles.
 * Identify opportunities to improve tooling, governance and workflows while integrating emerging technologies.
 * Mentor designers and foster excellence through coaching and knowledge sharing without direct disciplinary responsibility.


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