Chief Design Architect — Design System & AI

The Future Is Human; Ireland; On-site; EUR 91,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited paid holiday

Company share program

Paid parental leave

Learning budget

Remote-first culture

Flexible hybrid options

Job summary

Mews is seeking a Principal Designer to own the design foundation across the division, including the design system, cross‑tribe agents and skills, research engines, and architectural standards that enable scalable design across a fast-moving organization.

This role sits above individual tribes and shapes long‑term architecture and reusable systems. You’ll influence VP decisions and help ensure design decisions endure beyond any single project.

Qualifications

• Shipped AI-powered products or systems with architectural impact.
• Proven ability to lead across multiple tribes and domains.
• Deep design system experience and scale-sensitive thinking.
• Ability to articulate long-term design needs and drive them.
• Track record of influencing senior stakeholders with evidence.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the design foundation across the division: the design system, cross‑tribe agents and skills, research and discovery engines, design architecture, guidelines, and standards
• Hold the multi‑year view — write clearly about what design across the division will need that it doesn’t yet have, and drive toward it with enough conviction to see it through
• Build AI‑powered agents, skills, and tooling that encode design judgment into reusable systems rather than one‑off artifacts tied to a single project
• Work with Staff Designers so that tribe‑level design substrates compose into a coherent whole rather than a collection of parallel efforts
• Partner with the VP on the most complex cross‑tribe design problems — the ones that don’t fit inside any single tribe’s scope
• Contribute craft feedback and calibration input into Director and Staff Designer performance reviews

Skills

AI Fluency Level 4

Cross-tribe collaboration

Design system leadership

Architectural decision making

Multiyear thinking

Job description

Mews is seeking a Principal Designer to own the design foundation across the division, including the design system, cross‑tribe agents and skills, research engines, and architectural standards that enable scalable design across a fast-moving organization.

This role sits above individual tribes and shapes long‑term architecture and reusable systems. You’ll influence VP decisions and help ensure design decisions endure beyond any single project.