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Design Systems Director

Accenture 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom

Full-time Director

Lead the creation, evolution, and adoption of a design systems practice to deliver consistent, high-quality digital experiences at scale. Manage the design system roadmap, governance, and stakeholder alignment while mentoring a team of practitioners across design and engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the creation, evolution, and adoption of a design systems practice to deliver consistent, high-quality digital experiences at scale. Manage the design system roadmap, governance, and stakeholder alignment while mentoring a team of practitioners across design and engineering.

Requirements

  • Requires 10–14 years of experience with at least 4 years focused on design systems at scale. Candidates must possess a bachelor's degree in design or a related field and a strong portfolio demonstrating craft quality and process.

Benefits

  • 25 days annual leave
  • Private medical insurance
  • 3 additional days leave for charitable work

Key Skills

Design Systems Strategic Roadmap Management Governance Frameworks Stakeholder Alignment Mentoring Cross‑functional Leadership UX/UI Collaboration Design Operations Scalable Digital Experience Delivery Process Definition Change Management Team Management Design Documentation System Architecture Quality Assurance

About Accenture

Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale. Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $70 billion in FY25 revenue. Visit us at accenture.

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