NewDesign Systems Lead
Apply on ImprintImprint builds co-branded credit programs and payment experiences for brand partners such as Crate & Barrel, Rakuten, Booking.com, H-E-B, Fetch, and Shell, combining payments infrastructure, underwriting, and customer data. The role will define and drive the long-term vision and roadmap for Imprint's design system, partner with Product Design, Engineering, Product Management, and AI teams, establish governance and contribution models, evolve the system toward machine-readable and AI-consumable foundations, mentor a small team of design systems designers, and remain hands-on contributing to component architecture, documentation, patterns, and guidelines.
AI skillsThis role asks for AI & agentic skills, exactly what we teach at Into Design SystemsWhat you'll do
- Define and drive the long-term vision and roadmap for Imprint's design system, balancing immediate product needs with long-term platform investments
- Partner with Product Design, Engineering, Product Management, and AI teams to ensure system components are scalable, maintainable, production-ready, and aligned to shared priorities
- Establish governance, contribution models, and decision-making frameworks that give product teams a shared source of truth and enable faster work without sacrificing quality or consistency
- Evolve the design system beyond traditional Figma libraries and Storybook documentation toward machine-readable, AI-consumable foundations that connect design tooling, code generation, and AI-assisted development
- Mentor a small team of design systems designers and partner with developers to raise the bar on systems thinking, prioritization, and ownership
- Contribute directly to component architecture, documentation, patterns, and guidelines, and lead complex initiatives from strategy through execution
What they're looking for
- 8+ years of product design experience, including significant design systems ownership and experience leading or managing design systems teams
- Demonstrated success building and scaling design systems used across multiple product teams in a production environment
- Deep understanding of component architecture, design tokens, accessibility standards, and design-to-development workflows
- Strong product judgment with the ability to prioritize high-impact work and make tradeoffs between near-term product needs and long-term system investments
- Experience partnering closely with frontend engineers and engineering leadership to ship system components that are adopted and trusted
- Comfort working in a fast-moving startup environment where you own both strategy and execution and where the system needs to evolve continuously
- Excellent ability to communicate and influence across functions, including educating and advocating for design systems with teams that haven't worked with one before
- Nice to have: Experience with modern frontend technologies, component-based development, Storybook, and design token infrastructure
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