AI-Driven Design Systems Lead — Remote & Unlimited PTO

Careem; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work option (any country)

Unlimited vacation

Healthcare benefits

Fitness reimbursements

Job summary

Careem is seeking a Design System Lead to own the evolution of its design system across platforms and locales, including RTL/Arabic. This role is a hands-on IC position, blending rigorous systems design with building AI-powered tooling that enables design-to-code and prompt-to-design workflows.

You will govern token architecture, component library, and documentation, driving accessibility and cross-vertical consistency while partnering with engineering to ship scalable design patterns.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in product design
• 3+ years dedicated to design systems at scale
• Demonstrated experience building workflows with LLMs and agentic tools
• Ability to prototype in JavaScript/TypeScript and manage design token pipelines

Responsibilities

• Own the Design System lifecycle: tokens, components, patterns from inception to deprecation
• Define standards for color, type, spacing, and interaction across platforms and locales
• Maintain token architecture and comprehensive documentation for cross-component consistency
• Champion accessibility (WCAG) as a system-level guarantee
• Structure tokens and components to enable AI-native design-to-code workflows

Skills

Design systems

Token architecture

AI tooling

Figma Plugin API

JavaScript/TypeScript

English communication

Tools

Code Connect

MCP integrations

Figma API

Job description

Careem is seeking a Design System Lead to own the evolution of its design system across platforms and locales, including RTL/Arabic. This role is a hands-on IC position, blending rigorous systems design with building AI-powered tooling that enables design-to-code and prompt-to-design workflows.

You will govern token architecture, component library, and documentation, driving accessibility and cross-vertical consistency while partnering with engineering to ship scalable design patterns.