Seeking a Design System Lead IOP UX team. This role is to Design System and our migration of all IOP websites to Contentful. Report to IOP leadership and manage day-to-day design system operations, including design meetings and product roadmap priorities. The design system directly affects how usable our websites are — getting this right matters.
Interview: Teams
Location: Columbus, OH
Posting: 809987
Work: ON-SITE
Role and Experience
· Leading and Evolving the Design System: Manage Design Operations meetings and processes to oversee the addition and enhancement of the design system through a structured process. Manage the product roadmap.
· Establishing, Documenting, and Communicating: Define design guidelines, patterns, and standards. Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation.
· Managing Stakeholders: Collaborate with designers, developers, and executives to understand needs and drive alignment.
· Community Building: Foster a healthy design system community through feedback loops and regular communication
· Ensuring Accessibility and Inclusivity: Advocate for inclusive design practices, ensuring that the system adheres to accessibility standards and meets the needs of diverse users.
· Governance & Quality: Develop processes for component reviews, documentation standards, and quality assurance to ensure the system remains reliable
· Design System Lead, Product Manager, or similar
· Deep understanding of design systems, component-based architecture, and design tokens
· Experience collaborating effectively with design and engineering teams
· Strong communication and cross-functional leadership skills; ability to influence without authority
· Comfortable with ambiguity and driving clarity in complex, fast-moving environments
· Track record of shipping products and learning from user feedback
· Familiarity with design system tools (Figma, Storybook) Highly desired
· Background in UX/UI design, frontend engineering, or design leadership Highly desired
· Experience scaling design systems across multiple product teams Highly desired
· Experience scaling design systems across multiple product teams Highly desired
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