Design System Product Lead: Strategy & Adoption

Mindera; Porto; Remote; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Flexible working hours

Open holidays

Profit distribution for everyone

Mindera Annual Trip, sports & clubs

Training & conferences

Child Care vouchers

Choose Laptop & peripherals

Job summary

Mindera is seeking a Product Manager to own the Design System as a strategic product, aligning design and engineering to meet business needs and user requirements. You’ll drive the long-term vision, governance and adoption across Web and App platforms, coordinating with internal teams and promoting reusable components.

You’ll work on building a scalable design system, advocate for accessibility, track success metrics, and collaborate with design, engineering, and product stakeholders while

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner, ideally on a design system, component library or internal platform product.
• Experience treating a platform as a product: managing internal users as customers, adoption, and cross-team dependencies.
• Strong collaboration with design and engineering teams, with enough technical understanding to discuss theming, tokens and component architecture.
• Familiarity with Web and mobile app development contexts (iOS/Android).
• Knowledge of accessibility standards and assistive technologies.
• Experience defining success metrics, OKRs and adoption baselines.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including influencing without direct authority.
• Fluent English (written and spoken).

Responsibilities

• Drive Strategy: Drive the long-term vision, adoption and implementation of the design system across Web and App platforms.
• Lead Roadmap: Manage the product roadmap and prioritise the backlog to align with core business goals and objectives.
• Sync Disciplines: Coordinate design and engineering workstreams to ensure seamless delivery for our internal product teams.
• Champion Growth: Act as an advocate for the design system, raising awareness and sharing progress across the business.
• Elevate Standards: Set premium customer experience design standards through high-quality, reusable components and patterns.
• Support Accessibility: Embed accessibility guidelines and support for assistive technologies into every part of the design system.
• Ensure Compliance: Partner with App teams to guarantee technical alignment with Liquid Glass and Edge-to-Edge requirements.
• Measure Impact: Establish productivity baselines and success metrics that ladder up to our business OKRs and online scorecard.
• Define Governance: Support robust contribution models and governance structures as the design system evolves over time.
• Build Community: Cultivate an active and engaged user community through regular outreach, feedback and quarterly surveys.

Skills

Product management

Platform as a product

Cross-functional collaboration

Web & mobile familiarity

Accessibility knowledge

OKRs & metrics

Stakeholder communication

English fluency

Job description

Mindera is seeking a Product Manager to own the Design System as a strategic product, aligning design and engineering to meet business needs and user requirements. You’ll drive the long-term vision, governance and adoption across Web and App platforms, coordinating with internal teams and promoting reusable components.

You’ll work on building a scalable design system, advocate for accessibility, track success metrics, and collaborate with design, engineering, and product stakeholders while