NewSenior Design Systems Manager
Apply on GetYourGuideGetYourGuide is hiring a Senior Design Systems Manager to lead design systems strategy and processes within the UX organization. The role involves planning, building, and implementing high-quality product design patterns, creating processes for efficiency and quality at scale, and working across strategic to tactical levels with cross-functional partners. The position emphasizes evolving systems with automation, AI tooling, accessibility, and localization, and aims to consolidate and seed new patterns and design thinking across the organization.
AI skillsThis role asks for AI & agentic skills, exactly what we teach at Into Design SystemsWhat you'll do
- Shape, govern, and evolve the design language team and its capabilities across functions, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and scalability across products.
- Lead the adoption of automation, AI-assisted tooling, and code-driven design, bridging design, engineering, and product strategy.
- Partner closely with Product Design, Content Design, Product Management, Engineering, Research, Data products, and other multidisciplinary team members.
- Deploy the design team at varying levels (centralized to embedded) and create new ways of working that remove unnecessary stages and level up product development.
- Work across all stages of the product development process: requirements gathering, ideation, concept development, validation, wireframing, prototyping, final visual design, and implementation support.
- Guide teams in using the system effectively and nurture a culture that embraces system thinking over isolated solutions.
- Anticipate and embed emerging trends like generative UI, adaptive theming, and real-time personalization into the system roadmap.
- Own the team’s output: producing emotionally compelling, pixel-perfect patterns and processes.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years of experience in product design leadership, leading products with strong systems thinking.
- Strong vision thinking with proven projects that have shaped or influenced an organization’s way of thinking.
- Track record of designing and shipping design patterns that have scaled to millions of users and produced successful outcomes for global users and the business.
- AI super user, knowledgeable about ongoing trends and capabilities of AI in design systems.
- Experience creating efficiencies with teams in various engagement models, from centralized to embedded, to support a tech organization with system design.
- Champion and understand the interplay between frontend interactions and backend logic, ensuring designs are technically feasible and collaborating seamlessly with engineers.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clarity that brings user, technology, and business together to support roadmaps and increase design system output.
- Experience connecting initiatives across the organization while driving collaboration.
Am I a fit for this role?
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