Platform Design Systems Architect

BRMi; Vienna (VA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Employer-Paid Life Insurance

Employer-Paid Disability Insurance

401(k)

PTO + Holidays

Educational Assistance

Job summary

BRMi is seeking an experienced Platform Design Systems Lead to guide design-system governance and adoption for a major digital product platform. The role emphasizes platform-level strategy, documentation, and enablement across design, engineering, product, accessibility, and enterprise teams.

You will drive platform standards, tokens, and patterns while coordinating with enterprise partners to ensure accessible, scalable, and high-quality experiences. Hybrid work in VA/FL locations involved.

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading design-systems, front-end platforms, or product design operations.
• Experience with design-token management, theming, and component libraries.
• Strong collaboration across design, engineering, product, accessibility, and leadership teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the platform design-system roadmap aligned with product goals and accessibility standards.
• Promote adoption of patterns, components, tokens, docs, and contribution practices across the platform.
• Represent platform needs in enterprise discussions to enable practical implementation.
• Provide guidance on priorities, gaps, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborate to ensure platform solutions meet business, user, technical, and accessibility requirements.
• Establish governance, intake, decision criteria, and implementation standards at platform level.
• Improve design-to-development handoffs and align ownership across teams.
• Coordinate with enterprise partners on cross-platform standards and decisions.
• Evaluate frontend feasibility and give guidance on components, patterns, and tokens.
• Support CI/CD and release processes for design-system assets and documentation.

Tools

HTML

CSS/SCSS

JavaScript

TypeScript

React

Vue

Storybook

Zeroheight

CI/CD

Accessibility (a11y)

Job description

BRMi is seeking an experienced Platform Design Systems Lead to guide design-system governance and adoption for a major digital product platform. The role emphasizes platform-level strategy, documentation, and enablement across design, engineering, product, accessibility, and enterprise teams.

You will drive platform standards, tokens, and patterns while coordinating with enterprise partners to ensure accessible, scalable, and high-quality experiences. Hybrid work in VA/FL locations involved.