Design Systems & Ops Lead: Scale Delivery & Impact

Into Design Systems; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

PNC is seeking a hands-on Design Systems & Operations Lead in the Treasury Management Digital org. The role coordinates design delivery, governance, and system adoption across multiple teams in Pittsburgh, PA, Hamilton, NJ, or Houston, TX.

As a senior IC, you will optimize workflows, ensure consistent delivery, and partner with leadership on intake, prioritization, and staffing while advancing front-end architecture awareness and responsive design.

Qualifications

• Hands-on senior IC with delivery experience across design and systems.
• Advanced Figma systems expertise (Components, Variants, Tokens).
• Experience scaling and governing Design Systems at scale.
• Strong UX and product design fundamentals across the lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Own the health and effectiveness of the design delivery ecosystem across Design System teams.
• Act as the operational connector to ensure work reaches the right team with goals and dependencies.
• Design and optimize workflows, rituals, and operating models across Design, Product, and Engineering.
• Drive operational consistency while maintaining agility and velocity.
• Identify friction points and remove barriers to execution.
• Evolve intake and work-shaping processes for initiatives from definition to routing.
• Partner with leadership on intake, prioritization, roadmap alignment, and delivery planning.
• Support capacity planning and resource visibility across teams.

Skills

Design Systems governance

DesignOps

UX fundamentals

Product Design

Front-end architecture understanding

Component-based systems

Responsive design principles

Tools

Figma

Job description

PNC is seeking a hands-on Design Systems & Operations Lead in the Treasury Management Digital org. The role coordinates design delivery, governance, and system adoption across multiple teams in Pittsburgh, PA, Hamilton, NJ, or Houston, TX.

As a senior IC, you will optimize workflows, ensure consistent delivery, and partner with leadership on intake, prioritization, and staffing while advancing front-end architecture awareness and responsive design.