Design System Product Lead: Scale & Govern UI

Worldline; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health contribution

Health check – Every 2:nd year

Private Health Care Insurance

Parental pay & pension during parental

Hybrid working

Benefit portal

Job summary

Worldline is seeking a Design System Manager in Stockholm to own the strategy and governance of the Worldline Design System. You will bridge design and frontend engineering, leading cross-functional collaboration to deliver scalable, high-quality components across our product portfolio.

You will drive adoption, maintain guidelines, and stay ahead of tooling trends, while championing accessibility and tokens.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product design or design systems, with at least 2 years of hands-on experience building, maintaining, or managing a design system.
• Proven ability to manage a design system as a product including roadmapping, prioritisation, stakeholder management, and adoption measurement.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, roadmap, and governance of the Worldline Design System, treating it as a product with clear goals, priorities, and success metrics.
• Bridge the gap between design and frontend engineering, ensuring components are both designerly and technically sound — working closely with developers who implement the system in code.
• Establish and maintain contribution guidelines, quality standards, and governance processes so the system scales sustainably.
• Collaborate with product designers to understand needs, gather feedback, and evolve the system to support real product challenges.
• Champion design tokens, accessibility standards, and responsive patterns to ensure consistency across platforms and products.
• Nurture adoption across product teams, providing training, documentation, and hands-on support to designers and developers.
• Stay ahead of design system trends and frontend technologies to improve how we build and maintain the system.
• Explore opportunities with generative AI to automate documentation and intelligent component suggestions.

Skills

Design systems

Figma

Stakeholder management

Roadmapping

Communication

Frontend affinity

Design patterns

Accessibility standards

Tools

HTML/CSS

React

Job description

Worldline is seeking a Design System Manager in Stockholm to own the strategy and governance of the Worldline Design System. You will bridge design and frontend engineering, leading cross-functional collaboration to deliver scalable, high-quality components across our product portfolio.

You will drive adoption, maintain guidelines, and stay ahead of tooling trends, while championing accessibility and tokens.