Design Systems Lead
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Design Systems Lead unifying Discovery Education’s Atlas and Nebula systems. Modernizing design-engineering workflows and governance for scalable educational product experiences.
Responsibilities:
- Audit and evaluate the Atlas and Nebula design systems to identify overlaps, gaps, and consolidation opportunities
- Lead the evolution toward a unified, scalable design system architecture for multiple products and platforms
- Define standards for component governance, lifecycle management, system documentation, contribution workflows, ownership, and adoption
- Own the unified design system roadmap and decision-making
- Liaise between design and engineering teams for design system development
- Partner with engineers to translate components efficiently from design into production code
- Align design and development workflows to reduce duplication and improve implementation quality
- Establish and maintain design-to-engineering workflows using libraries, tokens, specs, and collaboration practices
- Research and implement tools for design system development and front-end collaboration
- Explore AI-assisted design and development tools
- Introduce processes for faster prototyping and reduced design-engineering friction
- Participate in product kickoffs with Product Design, Product Management, Curriculum, and Engineering
- Evaluate initiatives for design system scalability and platform consistency
- Determine which patterns and components belong in the shared system versus remaining product-specific
- Create adoption enablement through guidance, office hours, and training
- Track design system adoption and metrics across teams and products
- Measure development efficiency, component reuse, design consistency, and team satisfaction
- Refine governance and workflows based on organizational and product needs
- Report on adoption, reuse, consistency, and delivery efficiency and drive continuous improvement
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in design systems, front-end (or design technology), or design-to-engineering workflows, with demonstrated impact on shipped products
- Proven ability to lead the strategy, architecture, and governance of a multi-product design system
- Strong cross-functional influence to align designers, engineers, and product partners around shared standards, tradeoffs, and roadmap priorities
- Deep knowledge of design system foundations, including design tokens, accessibility standards, responsive patterns, and modern design tools such as Figma libraries and prototyping
- Familiarity with front-end frameworks and version control workflows
- Experience defining success metrics and using data and feedback to iterate on system direction and team workflows
- Ability to mentor and enable designers and engineers through documentation, office hours, playbooks, and training
- Comfortable operating autonomously in ambiguous problem spaces, communicating recommendations, and driving decisions with senior stakeholders
- Legal right to work in the United States
Benefits:
- Annual Bonus
- Remote work
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