Platform Design Systems Lead (Remote)

Tandym TechUnited States🇺🇸United StatesPosted Sep 29, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This remote Platform Design Systems Lead role offers significant growth in a reputable financial services organization, allowing you to shape scalable and consistent digital experiences. You'll thrive here if you're passionate about cross-functional collaboration, technical fluency, and driving design system adoption. Apply now to make a substantial impact on user interfaces and product consistency.

Quick Overview

Seniority

Mid Senior

Work mode

Remote

Location

United States

Posted

Yesterday

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Job Description

An established financial services organization is seeking a Platform Design Systems Lead to support a remote team. This role focuses on advancing platform-level design systems through governance, documentation, accessibility, and cross-functional collaboration to help deliver scalable and consistent digital experiences.

About the Opportunity:

Schedule: Monday to Friday

Hours: Standard business

Setting: Remote

Responsibilities:

Define and evolve the platform design-system roadmap in alignment with product goals, platform priorities, accessibility expectations, and enterprise guidance

Champion adoption of approved design patterns, tokens, components, documentation, and contribution practices within the assigned platform

Partner with design, engineering, product, accessibility, and leadership stakeholders to translate platform needs into practical implementation and governance improvements

Apply front-end technical fluency to evaluate implementation feasibility, identify technical gaps, and support effective design-to-development handoff practices

Build and maintain platform documentation, support training and enablement efforts, and help improve consistency, quality, and adoption across product teams

Perform other duties, as needed

Qualifications:

At least 5 years of experience in design systems, product design, design operations, front-end engineering, or a related digital product discipline

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent work experience

Proven track record of leading, governing, or significantly contributing to design-system adoption for a product area, platform, or large-scale digital experience

Working knowledge of front-end technologies, including HTML, CSS or SCSS, JavaScript or TypeScript, and modern component frameworks or libraries such as React or Vue

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

Understanding of CI/CD concepts relevant to design-system delivery, including build, test, release, versioning, documentation, dependency, and quality-check workflows

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

Experience with design tools such as Figma and documentation platforms such as Storybook or Zeroheight

Excellent communication, facilitation, leadership, stakeholder management, and change-management skills

Desired Skills:

Experience partnering with front-end engineering teams on component-library workflows, design token pipelines, CI/CD practices, platform release governance, or documentation automation