NewLead, Design Technology
Apply on PearsonThe Lead, Design System role (aligned with Director of Design Systems titles) is based in London as a hybrid position. At M38, the group-level design leader is accountable for Nebula, Pearson's enterprise Product Design System, and leads a specialized cross-functional team that creates, governs, and evolves Nebula's reusable components, semantic tokens, standards, and adoption tooling. The role owns enterprise Nebula strategy, adoption and governance, AI-enabled acceleration workflows, executive alignment and value measurement, and leadership of the Nebula design and engineering team.
AI skillsThis role asks for AI & agentic skills, exactly what we teach at Into Design SystemsWhat you'll do
- Own enterprise Nebula strategy, vision, and multi-year platform direction
- Lead a Pearson-wide product audit in Q4 2026 to identify high-revenue, high-usage products and corporate functions and assess migration readiness (per the audit program plan)
- Use the audit to outline the Nebula roadmap with individual product teams and corporate functions so the team can start once fully hired in Q1 2027
- Set the multi-product Nebula roadmap in partnership with the Product Lead, spanning BU migrations, Platinum DS integration, and Content/AI readiness
- Own token, component, and theming architecture strategy in partnership with the Principal Engineer
- Embed WCAG 2.2 accessibility and usability standards at the component level
- Ensure the system supports Pearson's modernisation, rebrand, and AI-native product strategies
- Own the enterprise governance model: consume-before-customize standards, change requests, exceptions, and release trains
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