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Design System Manager(m/w/x)

Genf
Full-timeWith Home OfficeExperienced

Owning the product vision for a design system, including tokens, components, and patterns. Experience with design systems and web development processes required. Support for digital experience leads and cross-team collaboration.

Requirements

  • Experience with design systems (tokens, components, patterns, documentation)
  • Familiarity with design operations and tooling
  • Experience in web design and development processes
  • Strong organisational skills
  • Excellent communication abilities
  • Solid technical understanding of design and development workflows
  • Strong understanding of design systems and development workflows
  • Familiarity with front-end development concepts and tools
  • Proven experience managing design systems (web and mobile)
  • Component creation and pattern standardisation
  • Design system documentation
  • Experience defining roadmaps
  • Experience creating and managing Jira tickets
  • Experience overseeing project milestones
  • Comfortable working with web and mobile native teams
  • Ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders
  • Highly organized
  • Collaborative
  • Able to manage multiple priorities effectively

Tasks

  • Support Digital Experience Leads in defining roadmaps
  • Ensure seamless collaboration across teams
  • Manage key deliverables
  • Own the product vision of the Design System
  • Define clear positioning for the Design System
  • Identify target users
  • Track metrics: adoption, reuse, contribution rate, reduction of custom UI
  • Act as the interface between squads and platform
  • Translate squad needs into platform-level capabilities
  • Decide on shared components versus local components
  • Provide reasoned arguments for decisions
  • Manage the backlog as a real product
  • Prioritize tasks based on impact across squads
  • Balance new components, improvements, tech debt, and adoption work
  • Build and maintain web design system assets
  • Ensure quality and usability of design system assets
  • Drive adoption of the Design System
  • Track usage and duplication
  • Push migrations, deprecations, and cleanup
  • Make the Design System easier to use than to bypass
  • Align with product and tech leadership
  • Sync with Product Directors on roadmap dependencies
  • Align with Platform and Frontend leads on architecture and constraints
  • Make tradeoffs explicit and visible
  • Identify and implement AI-assisted workflows
  • Improve team output with AI: component documentation, accessibility audits, token suggestions, spec-to-code pipelines
  • Evaluate AI tools critically
  • Separate useful signal from hype in AI tools
  • Make adoption decisions based on real quality and speed gains
  • Stay ahead of Figma, code generation tools, and LLM-based assistants
  • Establish guidelines for responsible AI use
  • Prototype and test new AI-powered workflows
  • Treat experimentation as part of the role

Work Experience

  • approx. 1 - 4 years

Education

  • Bachelor's degreeOR
  • Master's degree

Languages

  • EnglishBusiness Fluent

Tools & Technologies

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Jira
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