Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Design System Lead with a strong UX/UI background to drive consistency, quality, and scalability across our digital products. This role will work closely with product design, research, engineering, and brand teams to evolve and maintain a robust design system that ensures usability, accessibility, and visual excellence across the organisation.

Key Accountabilities

• Collaborate closely with designers to deliver high-quality design assets that meet usability, accessibility, visual, and performance standards

• Partner with product design, research, and engineering teams to apply, evolve, and maintain the Design System across products

• Define, refine, and document design workflows between the design system team and the wider product design community

• Recommend best practices, methodologies, and standards to ensure efficiency and consistency within the design system

• Facilitate collaboration and communication between design, engineering, product management, and brand teams to align on goals, priorities, and timelines

• Oversee design quality assurance (QA) by conducting regular design reviews and providing constructive feedback

• Establish and enforce design system governance, including version control, naming conventions, and component documentation

• Ensure the design system remains scalable, consistent, and future-ready

• Evaluate, implement, and maintain design tools that enhance team productivity and collaboration

• Continuously optimise design processes and workflows to improve efficiency and effectiveness

• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including senior leadership

• Promote design system adoption through training, workshops, and evangelism across the organisation

• Communicate design system updates, enhancements, and changes through presentations, documentation, and internal channels

Essential Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of professional experience in UX design with a strong UI design specialisation

• Proven experience leading the design of design systems and design languages

• Strong portfolio showcasing design systems, workflows, and successful adoption across products

• Demonstrated success in implementing design processes that support design system contribution and scalability

• Excellent design leadership skills across teams and seniority levels

• Experience evolving and maintaining digital brand identity

• Strong storytelling and presentation skills for stakeholder communication

• Deep understanding of user-centred design methodologies, including user research, usability testing, and feedback integration

• Ability to clearly articulate design decisions and strategies to both design and non-design stakeholders

• Ability to link design outcomes to business goals and organisational strategy

• Experience working in agile environments with iterative design processes

• Proven ability to bridge communication gaps between design and cross-functional teams

Desirable Qualifications

• Degree in UX Design, Product Design, Human-Centred Design, Graphic Design, Communication Design, or a related field

• Familiarity with industry-standard tools such as Figma, Miro, Storybook, GitHub, and GitLab