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Design Systems Lead

Tandym TechVienna, VA🇺🇸United States

Why this role stands out

As a Design Systems Lead at Tandym Tech, you'll shape the future of a platform by guiding its design system strategy and fostering collaboration across key teams. This remote-friendly role is perfect for a mid-senior professional with a passion for building scalable design solutions and driving adoption, offering a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact within an established financial services organization.

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior
Work modeRemote
LocationVienna, VA, United States
StorybookFigmaSwiftUICSSHTMLJavaScriptJetpack ComposeReactReact NativeStakeholder ManagementTypeScriptVue

Job description



An established financial services organization in Virginia is seeking a Design Systems Lead to guide design-system strategy, governance, and adoption for a platform environment while partnering closely across design, engineering, product, and accessibility teams.


About the Opportunity:



  • Schedule: Monday to Friday

  • Hours: Standard business

  • Setting: Hybrid (at least 3 days a week onsite; Remote work is an option for the right candidate)


Responsibilities:



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

  • Drive adoption of approved design patterns, components, design tokens, documentation, and contribution practices

  • Establish and maintain governance, intake processes, contribution workflows, and decision criteria for the design system

  • Partner with design, front-end engineering, product, accessibility, and leadership stakeholders to support consistent implementation

  • Assess implementation feasibility, identify gaps in component libraries and documentation, and translate standards into actionable guidance


Qualifications:



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

  • Demonstrated experience leading, governing, or significantly contributing to design-system adoption for a platform, product area, or large-scale digital experience

  • Working knowledge of HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and component frameworks such as React or Vue

  • Experience with design tokens, theming systems, and component-library architecture

  • Understanding of CI/CD and design-system delivery processes, including build, testing, release, versioning, dependency, documentation, and quality workflows

  • Strong understanding of UI/UX principles, accessibility, inclusive design, and WCAG standards

  • Experience with Figma and documentation platforms such as Storybook or Zeroheight

  • Strong communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, leadership, and change-management skills


Desired Skills:



  • Experience partnering with front-end engineering teams on component libraries, design-token pipelines, CI/CD, release governance, or documentation automation

  • Hands-on experience creating prototypes, implementation examples, or component documentation using HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Vue, or similar technologies

  • Experience working within a hybrid design-system model, adapting enterprise standards for platform-specific implementation

  • Mobile or cross-platform design-system experience with React Native, SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, or similar frameworks

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

  • Experience with accessibility audits, design-system quality reviews, adoption measurement, or contribution-model improvements

  • Contributions to open-source design systems, UI libraries, or reusable internal platform libraries


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