NewDesign system manager
Apply on PennylanePennylane is hiring a Design System Manager to own Purse, their design system, as a product, including its vision, roadmap, governance, and quality bar. The role is hands-on and involves providing craft leadership to Design System Designers, partnering with Design Ops and engineering on design–code parity, and evolving the system toward an AI-ready future. The company has a design organization of 40+ product designers working across web, mobile, and tablet and is growing that team.
AI skillsThis role asks for AI & agentic skills, exactly what we teach at Into Design SystemsWhat you'll do
- Own the vision, roadmap, and governance of Purse and evolve the system as a product toward an AI-ready future through milestone-driven releases
- Set and uphold the quality bar for components, tokens, patterns, and accessibility, building system work hands-on today and providing craft leadership
- Drive adoption and measure system value, partnering with the Design Ops Manager and engineering on design–code parity, and report impact to leadership
- Communicate well in both English and French
What they're looking for
- Experience owning the vision and roadmap of a design system at scale, supporting 40+ designers and engineers across web, mobile, and tablet
- Ability to balance an ambitious long-term vision with pragmatic, milestone-driven delivery
- Strong product sense applied to a design system, treating it as a product with users, adoption metrics, and a roadmap
- Experience defining and evolving design system governance and contribution models that balance autonomy and consistency
- Track record of setting and holding a quality bar for components, tokens, patterns, and accessibility as contribution volume grows
- Comfort making tooling and infrastructure decisions in partnership with design ops and engineering
- Hands-on maker who personally authors components, tokens, and patterns and maintains the Figma library, tapering production as the team grows
- Deep design-system craft including components, APIs, token systems, semantic naming, theming / multi-brand, and ability to mentor IC designers
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