Design Systems & Operations Lead

Design at Macquarie connects our products, services, and brand across the digital banking experience, from our native mobile apps to responsive web journeys, our design system serves as the foundational infrastructure for consistent, high-craft, and accessible digital banking.

As we mature our Design System across retail and business banking, we are looking for a Design lead - Design Systems to own the overarching vision, strategy, and operations of our system. Reporting into the Head of Design, you will lead the system discipline, directly manage our small design systems team and partner with executive product, brand, and engineering stakeholders to scale our design infrastructure.

We are a global financial services group operating in 30 markets with 57 years of unbroken profitability. At Macquarie, you're empowered to shape a career that is fulfilling and creates value. You will bring your insights and expertise to the task at hand and feel supported as you make your own kind of impact for a better future.

What role will you play?

As the Design lead for our design system, you will balance strategic leadership, people management, and systemic craft. You will serve as a direct people manager and mentor to the Design system lead and the core systems team, shaping their career growth, performance, and day-to-day prioritisation. You will define and drive the multi-year strategy, roadmap, and commercial value proposition of the Macquarie Design System across native iOS, Android, and web. Partnering with brand, marketing, and product design leadership, you will establish a unified visual language and ensure our digital products express our brand codes seamlessly. You will build and operate a lightweight, collaborative governance model and federated contribution framework that empowers product squads to consume, contribute, and innovate safely. In addition, you will co lead the system with engineering leads to ensure parity between design tokens, Figma libraries, and production code repositories.

What you offer

• 8-10+ years in digital product design, with a substantial portion dedicated to building, scaling, and governing multi-platform design systems at scale.
  
• Provide track record as a people manager, with demonstrable experience coaching and leading senior/lead level developers.
  
• Mastery of modern design system tooling, including advanced Figma architectures (variables, models, nested components), design tokens, and git-based design-to-code workflows.
  
• Demonstrated ability to navigate complex organisational dynamics, align divergent brand and product priorities, and secure buy in across engineering and product leadership.
• Deep technical fluency across native mobile (iOS HIG, Android Material) and responsive web conventions, including performance responsiveness, and accessibility standards.
• Strong background in establishing contribution models, design system metrics, clear documentation, and component governance processes.

What we offer

At Macquarie, you're empowered to shape a career that's rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on employment type, include:

• 1 wellbeing leave day per year
• Up to 5 additional service bonus leave days per year
• Up to 20 weeks' paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of transition leave upon return to work, and 6 weeks' paid leave for non primary caregivers
• 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
• Up to 12 months' gender affirmation leave, including 6 weeks' paid leave
• Access to Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing benefits including skin and health checks, and flu vaccinations
• Access to a wide range of salary packaging options
• Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
• Reimbursement for work from home equipment

About Banking and Financial Services

Banking and Financial Services is our technology driven retail bank. You will be part of a team that supports clients to achieve their full potential - whether that's buying a home, growing a business or investing to manage wealth.

Inclusion at Macquarie

We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all, where different experiences, skills and perspectives are valued and respected. Macquarie provides access to opportunities for all individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, gender identity or any other characteristic or circumstance.

We provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and employment. If you require an adjustment, please let us know during the application process.