Platform Design Systems Lead (Remote)

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:

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  Schedule: Monday to Friday

  
  


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  Hours: Standard business

  
  


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  Setting: Remote

  
  

Responsibilities:

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

  
  


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

  
  


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

  
  


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

  
  


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

  
  


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  Perform other duties, as needed

  
  

Qualifications:

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

  
  
  
  


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

  
  


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

  
  


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  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

  
  


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

  
  


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

  
  


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

  
  


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

  
  


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

  
  

Desired Skills:

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

  
  


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  Hands-on experience creating front-end prototypes, implementation examples, or component documentation using modern web technologies

  
  


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  Experience supporting a hybrid design-system model where enterprise guidance is adapted into platform-specific implementation and adoption practices

  
  


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

  
  


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  Experience supporting accessibility audits, design-system quality reviews, adoption measurement, or contribution-model improvement