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# Design System Lead

- **Company:** Everforth Apex
- **Location:** Pensacola, FL, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** HTML, JavaScript (Programming Language), Adobe InDesign, Computing Platforms, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Continuous Integration, Open Source Technology, TypeScript, Management of Software Versions, Document Enterprise Platform, ReactJS, Swiftui, Vue.js, Figma, React Native, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** October 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/9c3c8ce9-6f33-4bbd-9b09-f44bf5ef02da

## About the Role

Experience: 10+ years of experience in design systems, product design, design operations, front-end engineering, or a related digital product discipline. A proven track record of leading, governing, or contributing to design-system adoption for a product area or large-scale digital experience is necessary.

Technical Skills: Working knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern component frameworks like React or Vue is required. Familiarity with design token management, theming systems, and component-library architecture is also needed. An understanding of CI/CD concepts relevant to design-system delivery, including build, test, release, and versioning workflows is important. Experience with design tools such as Figma and documentation platforms like Storybook or Zeroheight is required.

Preferred Qualifications

 * Experience partnering with front-end engineering teams on component-library workflows or design token pipelines.
 * Hands-on experience creating front-end prototypes or implementation examples.
 * Experience supporting a hybrid design-system model where enterprise guidance is adapted into platform-specific practices.
 * Experience with mobile or cross-platform design-system considerations, including React Native or SwiftUI.
 * Background in design operations, design tooling, or platform-level design-system governance.
 * Experience supporting accessibility audits or design-system quality reviews.
 * Contributions to open-source design systems or UI libraries.

## Description

The Platform Design Systems Lead is responsible for the strategic development, governance, and adoption of design-system practices for an assigned platform. This role ensures platform-specific design tokens, components, patterns, and documentation stay aligned with enterprise guidance. The position enables scalable, consistent, and accessible digital experiences by fostering shared patterns, reusable guidance, and sustainable design-to-development workflows., * Define and evolve the platform design-system roadmap in alignment with product goals and platform priorities.

 * Champion design-system adoption within the assigned platform, driving consistent use of approved patterns, tokens, and components.
 * Represent platform needs, constraints, and feedback in design-system conversations.
 * Partner with platform design, engineering, product, and accessibility stakeholders to ensure solutions meet user and business needs.
 * Maintain platform-level governance models, contribution workflows, and scalable processes.
 * Facilitate conversations between designers, developers, and leadership to align expectations and improve handoff processes.
 * Apply working knowledge of front-end technologies to evaluate implementation feasibility and support collaboration with engineering partners.
 * Build and maintain platform documentation in tools such as Storybook and Zeroheight.
 * Work cross-functionally to plan and conduct regular platform audits for design consistency, code alignment, and accessibility conformance.