Design System Lead

We are seeking an experienced Platform Design Systems Lead to guide the development, governance, adoption, and continuous improvement of design-system practices within an assigned digital product platform. This role ensures platform-specific components, design tokens, patterns, documentation, and implementation guidance align with established enterprise design-system standards while supporting scalable, consistent, accessible, and high-quality digital experiences.

The Platform Design Systems Lead will collaborate with design, engineering, product, accessibility, and enterprise design-system teams to translate organizational standards into practical platform solutions. This position focuses on platform-level strategy, governance, documentation, adoption, technical enablement, and design-to-development workflows rather than ownership of the enterprise-wide design system.

The ideal candidate combines strong design-system expertise with front-end technical knowledge, an understanding of CI/CD and release processes, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams. While hands-on development experience is valuable, the primary focus is on improving design-system adoption, implementation consistency, accessibility, and operational efficiency.

Benefits:• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance• Employer-Paid Life Insurance• Employer-Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance• 401(k) • Paid Time Off (PTO) that includes Vacation Leave, Sick Leave, and 11 Paid Holidays• Educational Assistance

Salary: 90k-124k

**An In Person interview will be required for this role**

• Define and maintain the platform design-system roadmap in alignment with product objectives, platform priorities, accessibility requirements, and enterprise design-system standards.

• Promote adoption of approved design patterns, components, design tokens, documentation, and contribution practices across the assigned platform.

• Represent platform requirements, constraints, and feedback in enterprise design-system discussions to support practical implementation.

• Provide recommendations to leadership regarding design-system priorities, technical gaps, adoption challenges, risks, and opportunities for improvement.

• Collaborate with design, engineering, product, accessibility, and enterprise design-system teams to ensure platform solutions meet business, user, technical, and accessibility requirements.

• Establish and maintain platform-level governance processes, contribution workflows, intake procedures, decision criteria, and implementation standards.

• Facilitate collaboration between designers, developers, and stakeholders to improve design-to-development handoffs, clarify ownership, and align expectations.

• Coordinate with enterprise design-system partners on cross-platform requirements, standards, and decisions.

• Evaluate front-end implementation feasibility and provide technical guidance regarding design-system components, patterns, and design tokens.

• Partner with front-end engineers to ensure components and patterns are accessible, performant, reusable, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise standards.

• Support improvements to CI/CD and release processes for design-system assets, including build, testing, documentation, versioning, dependency management, and deployment workflows.

• Identify technical gaps in component libraries, design token pipelines, documentation, and implementation processes and recommend improvements.

• Develop platform implementation guidance, technical examples, and lightweight prototypes as needed.

• Create and maintain design-system documentation using tools such as Storybook, Zeroheight, and other documentation platforms.

• Develop and deliver training materials, workshops, office hours, and onboarding resources to promote consistent design-system adoption.

• Document component usage guidelines, design token applications, accessibility expectations, contribution processes, and engineering handoff standards.

• Provide guidance to platform teams regarding the appropriate use of enterprise standards and platform-specific implementation practices.

• Conduct platform audits to evaluate design consistency, code alignment, accessibility compliance, documentation quality, and design-system adoption.

• Analyze audit results, adoption metrics, and stakeholder feedback to identify opportunities for improvement.

• Monitor emerging design-system technologies, accessibility practices, documentation tools, and front-end development trends.

• Recommend improvements that reduce rework, strengthen implementation consistency, and improve design-system maturity.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

• 5+ years of experience in design systems, product design, design operations, front-end engineering, or a related digital product discipline.

• Demonstrated experience leading, governing, or significantly contributing to design-system adoption within a product area, platform, or large-scale digital environment.

• Working knowledge of front-end technologies, including HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript.

• Familiarity with modern component frameworks and libraries such as React, Vue, or comparable technologies.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering teams and evaluate technical implementation feasibility.

• Experience with design token management, theming systems, component-library architecture, and cross-platform implementation considerations.

• Understanding of CI/CD concepts and workflows, including build, testing, release management, versioning, documentation, dependency management, and quality assurance.

• Experience identifying technical and process gaps and translating findings into actionable recommendations.

• Strong understanding of design principles, UI/UX best practices, accessibility standards, and inclusive digital experience practices.

• Knowledge of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

• Experience using design tools such as Figma.

• Experience with design-system documentation platforms such as Storybook, Zeroheight, or comparable tools.

• Strong understanding of design-system governance, contribution models, component documentation, and adoption practices.

• Excellent written and verbal communication, facilitation, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across design, engineering, product, accessibility, and leadership teams.

• Strong organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and change-management skills.

• Experience partnering with front-end engineering teams on component libraries, design token pipelines, CI/CD processes, release governance, or documentation automation preferred.

• Hands-on experience developing front-end prototypes, implementation examples, or component documentation using HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Vue, or similar technologies preferred.

• Experience supporting a hybrid design-system model that incorporates enterprise standards and platform-specific implementation practices preferred.

• Experience with mobile or cross-platform design systems, including React Native, SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, or similar frameworks preferred.

• Background in design operations, design tooling, documentation strategy, or platform-level design-system governance preferred.

• Experience supporting accessibility audits, design-system quality reviews, adoption measurement, or contribution-model improvements preferred.

• Experience contributing to open-source design systems, UI libraries, or reusable internal component libraries preferred.

** BRMi will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.**

**This is a W2 opportunity only**