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# Lead Product Designer - Design Systems, Figma

- **Company:** Hays plc
- **Location:** Manchester, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £63,381.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Design of User Interfaces, Service Design, Figma
- **Published:** October 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5922026768

## About the Role

* Proven experience as a Lead Product Designer, including ownership of overall Design System Strategy
 * Demonstrable experience scaling design systems across large organisations
 * Strong working knowledge of Figma
 * Experience defining governance, architecture and standards, and measuring system usage, effectiveness and future improvements
 * Ability to drive coherence, accessibility and scalability, ensuring designs are accessible and responsive
 * Ability to lead cross-functional collaboration and drive adoption across Product teams
 * Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, including with C-suite stakeholders
 * Exceptional communication skills and confidence communicating with technical and non-technical audiences
 * Working knowledge of Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe)
 * Flexible approach to hybrid working
 * Desirable: immediate availability
 * Desirable: demonstrable experience with AI tooling
 * Desirable: research, content design or service design experience
 * Desirable: experience in a large, complex, heavily regulated organisation

## Description

* Own the overall Design System Strategy and scale systems across large organisations
 * Define and evolve the Design Systems architecture, principles, governance and standards
 * Measure system usage and effectiveness, and identify future improvements
 * Drive coherence, accessibility and scalability across designs
 * Lead cross-functional collaboration and encourage adoption across Product teams
 * Work closely with Product Designers and Engineers, bridging Design and Engineering
 * Test and validate component behaviour

Technologies:

 * AI
 * Figma
 * UX UI Design