Senior Design Systems Lead

Ensora Health

Missouri

On-site

USD 120,000 - 170,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Ensora Health is seeking a Senior Product Designer to lead the evolution of the design system across web and native apps, partnering with engineering to maintain parity between design and code. You will drive accessibility, research, and scalable product design within TheraNest initiatives, shaping experiences for healthcare providers and patients.

You will mentor designers, advocate for WCAG/ADA, and collaborate across product and engineering to deliver accessible, responsive interfaces that

Qualifications

6+ years of experience in product or UX design, including 3+ years leading design systems used by multiple product teams.
Bachelor’s degree in design, HCI, or related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
Proven experience managing and evolving an effective design system, including components, patterns, tokens, documentation, and governance.
Strong interaction and visual design skills, with exceptional attention to detail and a commitment to design quality.
Strong knowledge of accessibility standards and practices, including WCAG and ADA, with experience advocating for and implementing accessible design approaches.
Experience designing responsive web and native mobile experiences.
Proven experience designing complex products in partnership with product managers and cross-functional teams in iterative product cycles.
Advanced Figma skills, including component design, prototyping, branching, token management, AI tools, documentation, and methods for maintaining design and code parity.
Experience partnering directly with engineering on a coded component library, along with a working understanding of HTML and CSS.
Strong communication skills, including presenting to stakeholders and effectively giving and receiving design critique.
An online portfolio demonstrating both design system and product design work. A portfolio is required to apply.

Responsibilities

Lead the evolution, management, and quality of the design system across web and native mobile experiences.
Own and improve its components, patterns, tokens, documentation, accessibility standards, and governance practices.
Partner closely with your engineering counterpart to plan, design, review, test, quality‑assure, and release design system updates.
Maintain strong parity between designed and coded sources, and help teams understand how components should behave across responsive experiences.
Build accessibility into components and patterns from the beginning.
Evaluate and test design system solutions for accessibility and usability, advocate for WCAG and ADA‑aligned practices, and document accessibility expectations for designers and engineers.
Maintain clear design system documentation, including usage guidance, responsive behaviors, specifications, implementation considerations, and accessibility standards.
Support the system’s AI readiness through effective documentation, tokens, guidance, skills, and connections.
Lead design system meetings, office hours, demonstrations, critiques, and other team rituals.
Communicate updates, gather feedback, support adoption, educate teams, and identify emerging system needs.
Execute and strengthen design system governance.
Review requests from designers and engineers, balance consistency with product needs, and help teams decide when to use or adapt the system.
Write and prioritize design system backlog items in partnership with the product owner and engineering.
Partner with product managers as their UX counterpart for assigned TheraNest initiatives.
Design user-centered solutions that align with business goals and target success metrics.
Create experiences that are useful, highly usable, responsive, accessible, and thoughtfully crafted.
Produce a range of design artifacts, including concepts, wireframes, user flows, mockups, prototypes, specifications, and detailed design deliverables.
Plan and conduct user research and usability testing in collaboration with product partners.
Analyze and synthesize findings, translate insights into product decisions, and communicate results to cross-functional teams.
Present design work to internal teams, subject-matter experts, and stakeholders to explain decisions, gather feedback, and build alignment.
Consider, follow, and advocate for applicable privacy and compliance requirements, including HIPAA-related requirements.
Use approved AI tools to assist, automate, accelerate, and improve the quality of design, research, documentation, and related workflows.
Mentor other designers, provide constructive design feedback, and help raise design craft and design system fluency across the team.