Design Systems Engineering Manager

Elasticsearch B.V.; Portugal; Hybrid; EUR 56,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible schedules

Generous vacation days

Donation matching

Volunteer hours

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead Global UX engineering for Elastic UI (EUI) and shared design-system infrastructure. You will supervise the team, coordinate roadmaps, and drive delivery across a fully distributed organization.

You will hire, mentor, and align Design leadership with Product Management, balancing long-term platform investments with ongoing feature requests to deliver high-quality, accessible experiences.

Qualifications

• Experience leading design-system or platform teams.
• Ability to plan delivery cadence with multiple internal stakeholders.
• Strong frontend knowledge (React/TypeScript) to make informed tradeoffs.
• Experience hiring and growing engineers into senior roles.
• Proven stakeholder management and clear roadmap communication.
• Track record balancing platform investments with urgent feature requests.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in a distributed team.
• Experience using adoption metrics to inform roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow engineers responsible for Elastic UI (EUI) and shared design-system infra.
• Own delivery cadence: sprint planning, quarterly roadmap, outcomes, status reporting.
• Lead hiring, onboarding, performance management and career growth.
• Foster a healthy, collaborative culture in a distributed async environment.
• Represent Global UX in cross-functional planning with engineering, design, product.
• Remove blockers by negotiating dependencies and surfacing risks early.
• Track design-system adoption and health metrics to inform roadmaps.
• Build relationships with teams using the design system and gather feedback.

Skills

Team leadership

Delivery cadence

Frontend (React/TS)

Hiring & mentorship

Stakeholder management

Design systems

Data-driven decisions

Async distributed work

AI in design-to-code

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

React

TypeScript

Job description

Elastic is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead Global UX engineering for Elastic UI (EUI) and shared design-system infrastructure. You will supervise the team, coordinate roadmaps, and drive delivery across a fully distributed organization.

You will hire, mentor, and align Design leadership with Product Management, balancing long-term platform investments with ongoing feature requests to deliver high-quality, accessible experiences.