The Lead Design Ops will be responsible for defining, scaling, and governing the Design Operations practice across multidisciplinary teams to ensure consistency, efficiency, and high-quality design delivery within an AI-first environment. This includes establishing design systems operations, optimizing workflows, managing tooling architecture, and leveraging AI to automate processes and enhance productivity.
Responsibilities
- Define and implement the Design Ops model, including governance, standards, and ownership frameworks
- Establish and scale design systems operations across web, mobile, and desktop platforms
- Build and maintain design tokens, component libraries, and system architecture for cross-platform consistency
- Design and optimize end-to-end workflows, ensuring seamless collaboration between design, product, and engineering
- Create and maintain living documentation systems to support scalability and knowledge sharing
- Define and manage tooling architecture, integrating platforms such as Figma, Storybook, and AI-powered tools
- Leverage AI (Figma AI, Copilot, Cursor) to automate processes and enhance design productivity
- Implement Design CI/CD pipelines, enabling continuous integration between design and development
Requirements
- Proven experience in Design Ops, Design Systems, or UX Operations roles
- Strong experience building and scaling design systems and tokens across platforms
- Hands-on experience with Figma, Storybook, and modern design tooling ecosystems
- Understanding of design-to-code workflows and CI/CD for design systems
- Experience integrating AI tools into design workflows (Figma AI, Copilot, Cursor)
- Knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design practices
Benefits
- Stimulating working environments
- Unique career path
- International mobility
- Internal R&D projects
- Knowledge sharing
- Personalized training
- Entrepreneurship & intrapreneurship
Key Skills
About Palo It
We are a global, AI-first technology consultancy, with a trademarked engineering approach for accelerating the delivery of digital products, and revolutionizing platform modernization. We do the right thing, and we do it right. We're proud to be a World Economic Forum New Champion, and a B Corp-certified company.
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