Senior Manager, Design System

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We are looking for a design system leader and subject matter expert with demonstrable experience building, executing and evangelizing design systems. You will inspire and lead the design system design team, and define the vision and strategy. Your mission is to make a world-class design system that rivals Polaris, Atlassian Design System, Carbon, and Spectrum!
The ideal candidate has a strong background in design, user experience, front-end development, and a proven track record in managing, evolving and maturing design systems. This role requires you to be a systems and platform thinker, and also a strong partner and collaborator to your stakeholders in the Design, Engineering and Product orgs. You will work closely with these partners to ensure our design system improves the lives of our designers, engineers and ultimately our end customers.
This is a remote opportunity within Canada and the US.

What we're looking for:

• 6+ years of experience in Product Design, UX Design, and Interaction Design. This should include at least 3 years of Design System work
• You've led the creation of a design system with complex products, cross-functional teams and continually evolving customer needs. You have experience working on a design system that is multi-platform (Web, Mac, Windows, Android and iOS)
• Proven ability to partner with Design, Engineering and Product to formulate, prioritize and execute against a design systems roadmap
• Ability to quantitatively and qualitatively understand complex data, insights and problems. Then leverage data and insights to prioritize business and customer needs
• Ability to plan, design and execute advocacy and socialization programs to drive awareness and adoption of a design system
• Previous experience defining and measuring the success of a design system
• A portfolio that demonstrates detailed design thinking and problem-solving for the overall user experience, with an emphasis on design systems
• Broad knowledge of front-end code, programming languages, and responsive web principles
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity. Excel in a fast-paced environment with a lot of context switching. You’ll have to move quickly …