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Build and lead the design system function across seven merchant lifecycle value streams, defining its roadmap, token architecture, multi-platform component libraries, governance, and accessibility standards. Align Product, Engineering, CX, and Research teams, drive adoption and measurable impact, and lead AI integration and a high-performing design systems team.
Responsibilities
- Build and lead the design system function across seven merchant lifecycle value streams, defining its roadmap, token architecture, multi-platform component libraries, governance, and accessibility standards. Align Product, Engineering, CX, and Research teams, drive adoption and measurable impact, and lead AI integration and a high-performing design systems team.
Requirements
- Candidates should have a proven record of building and scaling design system teams, token architectures, and governance in complex multi-product organizations, with deep hands-on expertise in components, accessibility, and code-ready design foundations. They should be able to influence Product and Engineering strategy, measure outcomes, and bring practical experience with AI design tools, agentic UI patterns, WCAG, and GDPR; payments or other regulated-industry experience is a bonus.
Key Skills
About Numi
Hi, we are numi. We build the teams and the people that lead them. We help technology companies hire across AI, data, product and software engineering. That means the leaders, from CTOs, CPOs and CDOs to Heads of AI, and the brilliant individual contributors who build alongside them. It's all we do, which is why we know this market as well as we do. Our team are specialists in their fields. We start with a proper map of the market and finish with a shortlist you'd struggle to build yourself. Dojo, The Economist, JPMorgan Chase and Pivotal Earth are among the companies we've done this for. We spend a lot of our time in the room with the people we hire for. numicon brings founders, CTOs and product leaders together to talk candidly about building companies, and we share what we learn through numi Talks and our research into how hiring is changing after AI. Hiring a leader, building a team or thinking about your next move? Say hello at hello@wearenumi.com or visit wearenumi.com.
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