Lead Design Systems (m/f/d/x)

About Deutsche Telekom AG

You are at home in the world. So are we — in more than 50 countries across the globe. We connect work and life, and our products enrich people's everyday experiences. Deutsche Telekom is one of the largest telecommunications providers in Europe and the first choice in the gigabit society. We have the best network and 230,000 innovative minds. Become one of them.

Products.Innovation.Experience. at Deutsche Telekom

For people who want to build more than products: real impact.

At Deutsche Telekom, we develop digital products, services and platforms used by millions of people across Europe every day. Within our Products.Innovation.Experience. department, we bring together product management, engineering, design, data and AI to build experiences that are simple, intelligent and relevant at scale. We are looking for a Lead Design Systems (m/f/d) to join our Design & Customer Experience team and drive the evolution of a shared design foundation that enables quality, consistency and scale across Telekom’s products and services.

What We Provide

• Value-based innovation culture that unites creativity, responsibility and purpose.
• International and diverse team collaborating across domains and locations.
• Meaningful projects with global customer impact.
• Creative environment that encourages experimentation and collaboration.
• Continuous learning and career development opportunities.
• Onsite in Bonn, Berlin or Darmstadt

What You'll Do

As Lead Design Systems (m/f/d ) you define and evolve the vision and strategy for Telekom’s design system together with Design, Engineering and Product leadership. You drive design system initiatives across cross-functional teams while providing expert design leadership and have further tasks such as:

• Own and evolve components, tokens, patterns and guidelines to ensure consistency, quality and accessibility.
• Enable designers, engineers and product teams to adopt, contribute to and continuously improve the design system.
• Balance standardization with flexibility, enabling innovation within shared foundations.
• Champion accessibility and inclusive design as core principles.
• Identify opportunities to improve tooling, governance and workflows while integrating emerging technologies.
• Mentor designers and foster excellence through coaching and knowledge sharing without direct disciplinary responsibility.
• Support the professional development of designers contributing to the design system
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative team culture that encourages ownership, knowledge sharing and continuous growth

What you bring

You hold a degree in Design or a related discipline combined with several years of experience leading large-scale design systems in complex product organizations. In addition to your experience in influencing multidisciplinary teams across Design, Engineering and Product you have following skills:

• Proven experience leading enterprise-scale design systems.
• Strong design leadership with the ability to influence without formal authority.
• Excellent interaction, visual and systems design skills.
• Technical fluency with design tokens, front-end frameworks and design tooling.
• Deep knowledge of accessibility and inclusive design.
• Strategic thinking aligned with business and product goals.
• Outstanding communication, facilitation and stakeholder management.
• Cross-functional leadership and change management capabilities.
• Fluent English; German is a plus.

Does this job sound like it was made for you? Then seize your opportunity and apply online.

Applicants with severe disabilities who are equally qualified will be given preferential consideration.

We look forward to hearing from you!