Design System Lead: AI-Ready, Scaled for 60+ Designers

Pennylane SAS; France; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

25 vacation days paid by Pennylane

Company shares

Home office budget

Gymlib wellness access

Busuu language app access

Latest Apple equipment

Résumé du poste

Pennylane is seeking a Design System Manager to own Purse, our design system, guiding vision, roadmap, governance, and quality across web, mobile, and tablet in multiple languages. You will be hands-on, authoring components and tokens while mentoring designers and collaborating with engineering.

You will champion AI-ready documentation, set high quality standards, and drive system adoption through clear storytelling and leadership alignment. A fintech context and international scope are a plus.

Qualifications

• Experience owning the vision and roadmap of a design system at scale, supporting 40+ designers and engineers across web, mobile, and tablet.
• Ability to balance an ambitious long-term vision with pragmatic, milestone-driven delivery that creates value at every step.
• Strong product sense applied to a design system — treating it as a product with users, adoption metrics, and a roadmap.
• Experience defining and evolving design system governance and contribution models that balance autonomy and consistency.
• A track record of setting and holding a quality bar for components, tokens, patterns, and accessibility as contribution volume grows.
• Comfort making tooling and infrastructure decisions that affect the system, in partnership with design ops and engineering.
• A genuine maker who is hands-on today, with a small team you personally author components, tokens, and patterns and maintain the Figma library rather than only directing the work.
• Deep design-system craft, components, APIs, token systems, semantic naming, theming / multi-brand, with the ability to provide craft direction and mentorship to IC designers.
• Strong technical acumen and a clear understanding of how design systems are implemented in code, comfortable in a production-first environment where code is the source of truth.
• Expertise in what makes a design system interpretable by AI: structured, machine-readable, AI-ready documentation, and how LLMs and codegen agents consume a system.
• Demonstrated ability to drive system adoption through evangelism, clear narratives, and presentations to diverse audiences including leadership.
• Experience defining system-health and adoption metrics and reporting system value and ROI to leadership.
• Strong partnership skills with design, engineering, and product leadership.
• Nice to have: fintech familiarity, multilingual/internationalization, tokens pipeline experience, accessibility standards know-how, scale-up background, and people management potential.

Responsabilités

• Own the vision, roadmap, and governance of Purse, evolving the system as a product toward an AI-ready future.
• Set and uphold the quality bar for components, tokens, patterns, and accessibility while contributing hands-on.
• Drive adoption and measure system value, partnering with Design Ops and engineering for alignment.
• Communicate clearly with leadership and stakeholders to advocate value and ROI of the design system.
• Collaborate across design, engineering, and product leadership to deliver milestone-driven releases.

Connaissances

Design system ownership

Roadmap planning

Product mindset

Governance

Quality bar definition

Tooling decisions

Hands-on design

Technical design systems

AI-ready documentation

System adoption

Cross-functional collaboration

Fintech familiarity

Multilingual / international design

Accessibility practices

Scale-up experience

People management (future)

Outils

Figma library

Style Dictionary

Tokens Studio

Description du poste

Pennylane is seeking a Design System Manager to own Purse, our design system, guiding vision, roadmap, governance, and quality across web, mobile, and tablet in multiple languages. You will be hands-on, authoring components and tokens while mentoring designers and collaborating with engineering.

You will champion AI-ready documentation, set high quality standards, and drive system adoption through clear storytelling and leadership alignment. A fintech context and international scope are a plus.