Platform Design Systems Leader

247Hire; Vienna (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobylon AB is seeking a platform design-system leader to define and evolve the platform design-system roadmap, aligning with product goals, accessibility, and CMD+R enterprise guidance. You will champion adoption, drive token and component consistency, and partner with design and engineering for practical platform implementations.

This role requires leading governance, enabling teams, and translating design-system guidance into actionable platform work, while collaborating with leadership to

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in design systems, product design, design operations, front-end engineering, or related digital product discipline.
• Proven track record of leading or contributing to design-system adoption for a product area, platform, or large-scale digital experience.
• Working knowledge of HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern component frameworks such as React or Vue.
• Familiarity with design token management, theming systems, component-library architecture, and cross-platform implementation considerations.
• Understanding of CI/CD concepts relevant to design-system delivery, including build, test, release, versioning, documentation, dependency, and quality-check workflows.
• Ability to identify technical and process gaps and translate them into clear recommendations with stakeholders to improve platform workflows.
• Strong understanding of UI/UX principles, accessibility standards (WCAG), and inclusive digital experience practices.
• Experience with design tools such as Figma and documentation platforms like Storybook or Zeroheight.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the platform design-system roadmap in alignment with product goals, platform priorities, accessibility expectations, and CMD+R enterprise guidance.
• Champion design-system adoption within the assigned platform, driving consistent use of approved patterns, tokens, components, documentation, and contribution practices.
• Represent platform needs, constraints, and feedback in design-system conversations, helping CMD+R guidance translate into practical platform implementation.
• Provide leadership-level recommendations on platform design-system priorities, risks, gaps, adoption barriers, and opportunities to improve delivery workflows.
• Partner with platform design, engineering, product, accessibility, and enterprise stakeholders to ensure platform solutions meet user, business, accessibility, and implementation needs.
• Maintain governance models, intake practices, decision criteria, and scalable processes that complement CMD+R without duplicating it.
• Facilitate conversations between designers, developers, and leadership to align ownership and improve end-to-end handoff.
• Escalate cross-platform questions to CMD+R or enterprise partners for alignment and decision support.
• Apply working knowledge of front-end technologies to evaluate implementation feasibility and support collaboration with engineering partners.
• Partner with front-end engineers to ensure platform patterns are implementable, accessible, performant, and reusable.
• Support CI/CD and release-process improvements for platform design-system assets.
• Identify gaps in component libraries, token pipelines, documentation, and handoff practices; propose practical improvements.
• Translate design-system patterns and tokens into platform implementation guidance and prototypes when needed.

Job description

Jobylon AB is seeking a platform design-system leader to define and evolve the platform design-system roadmap, aligning with product goals, accessibility, and CMD+R enterprise guidance. You will champion adoption, drive token and component consistency, and partner with design and engineering for practical platform implementations.

This role requires leading governance, enabling teams, and translating design-system guidance into actionable platform work, while collaborating with leadership to