Senior Design Systems Lead – Health Tech & AI Ready

Ensora Health; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Ensora Health is seeking a Senior Design System Lead to advance our design system across web and native experiences. You will own components, tokens, documentation, and governance, partnering with engineering to plan, review, test, and release updates while ensuring parity between design and code.

You will drive accessibility, WCAG/ADA alignment, and proactive AI-enabled design workflows. You will mentor designers, lead governance, and collaborate with product teams to create usable, scalable

Qualifications

• 6+ years in product or UX design, incl. 3+ years leading design systems.
• Bachelor's degree in design, HCI, or related field.
• Proven experience evolving design systems with governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead evolution, management, and quality of the design system across web and native apps.
• Own components, patterns, tokens, docs, accessibility, and governance.
• Collaborate with engineering to plan, review, test, and release updates.
• Maintain parity between design and code; guide teams on component behavior.
• Build accessibility into components; advocate WCAG/ADA alignment.
• Document accessibility expectations for designers and engineers.
• Maintain design system docs: usage guidance, responsive specs, implementation notes.
• Support AI readiness with documentation, tokens, guidance.
• Lead design system meetings, office hours, critiques, rituals.
• Advise stakeholders, gather feedback, drive adoption and system needs.
• Prioritize backlog with product owner; translate needs into actionable work.
• Partner with product managers as UX counterpart for initiatives.
• Design user-centered solutions aligned with goals and metrics.
• Produce concepts, wireframes, mockups, prototypes, specs.
• Plan and conduct user research and usability testing.

Skills

Design systems leadership

Figma advanced

HTML/CSS knowledge

React component design

UX design

Accessibility WCAG/ADA

Communication

AI tools in design

Mentoring

Portfolio development

Design system governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in design or HCI

Tools

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Figma

Material UI

Token management

Job description

Ensora Health is seeking a Senior Design System Lead to advance our design system across web and native experiences. You will own components, tokens, documentation, and governance, partnering with engineering to plan, review, test, and release updates while ensuring parity between design and code.

You will drive accessibility, WCAG/ADA alignment, and proactive AI-enabled design workflows. You will mentor designers, lead governance, and collaborate with product teams to create usable, scalable