Design Lead, Design Systems
Role Summary
The Anywhere UX team is scaling quickly, and we’re looking for a Design Lead to guide the evolution of our design system. In this role, you’ll help drive consistency, scalability, efficiency, and quality across our products – ensuring designers and engineers have the tools, components, and foundations they need to deliver great experiences quickly and predictably.
You’ll work hands-on in Figma, collaborating closely with product designers and engineers to refine our system’s structure, improve how design connects to code, and ensure that our design standards scale across a multi-product ecosystem. The role blends craft, systems thinking, and cross-functional collaboration – ideal for someone who loves getting into the details while helping teams move faster with clarity and confidence.
- Advance our design system foundations – evolve and maintain components, patterns, and tokens to support a consistent, scalable design language across products.
- Collaborate across disciplines – partner with product design and engineering to ensure the system meets both product and technical needs.
- Bridge design and code – work closely with front-end engineers to improve component quality, naming, and handoff, ensuring parity between design and development.
- Support contribution and feedback loops – help shape a healthy contribution model that allows teams to propose updates, share learnings, and continuously improve the design system.
- Document and communicate – maintain clear documentation in tools like Zeroheight and Confluence to enable easy adoption and alignment.
- Ensure quality and usability – review implementations, gather feedback, and ensure components maintain design integrity, adaptability, and alignment with system standards.
- Support system governance – help define lightweight processes that keep updates organized and maintain clarity across teams and products.
- Mentor through influence – support designers in using and contributing to the design system, fostering consistency and thoughtful flexibility in how we design.
- Explore new tools and workflows – experiment with automation and AI-assisted solutions that enhance documentation, asset creation, and system management.
- 8–12 years of experience in product design, with at least 5 years focused on design systems.