Tandym Group

An established financial services organization is seeking a Platform Design Systems Lead to support a remote team. This role focuses on advancing platform-level design systems through governance, documentation, accessibility, and cross-functional collaboration to help deliver scalable and consistent digital experiences.
About the Opportunity:
<ul>
<li>Schedule:
Monday to Friday</li>
<li>Hours:
Standard business</li>
<li>Setting:
Remote</li>
</ul>
Responsibilities:
<ul>
<li>Define and evolve the platform design-system roadmap in alignment with product goals, platform priorities, accessibility expectations, and enterprise guidance</li>
<li>Champion adoption of approved design patterns, tokens, components, documentation, and contribution practices within the assigned platform</li>
<li>Partner with design, engineering, product, accessibility, and leadership stakeholders to translate platform needs into practical implementation and governance improvements</li>
<li>Apply front-end technical fluency to evaluate implementation feasibility, identify technical gaps, and support effective design-to-development handoff practices</li>
<li>Build and maintain platform documentation, support training and enablement efforts, and help improve consistency, quality, and adoption across product teams</li>
<li>Perform other duties, as needed</li>
</ul>
Qualifications:
<ul>
<li>At least 5 years of experience in design systems, product design, design operations, front-end engineering, or a related digital product discipline</li>
<li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent work experience</li>
<li>Proven track record of leading, governing, or significantly contributing to design-system adoption for a product area, platform, or large-scale digital experience</li>
<li>Working knowledge of front-end technologies, including HTML, CSS or SCSS, JavaScript or TypeScript, and modern component frameworks or libraries such as React or Vue</li>
<li>Familiarity with design token management, theming systems, component-library architecture, and cross-platform implementation considerations</li>
<li>Understanding of CI/CD concepts relevant to design-system delivery, including build, test, release, versioning, documentation, dependency, and quality-check workflows</li>
<li>Strong understanding of design principles, UI/UX best practices, accessibility standards, and inclusive digital experience practices, including WCAG</li>
<li>Experience with design tools such as Figma and documentation platforms such as Storybook or Zeroheight</li>
<li>Excellent communication, facilitation, leadership, stakeholder management, and change-management skills</li>
</ul>
Desired Skills:
<ul>
<li>Experience partnering with front-end engineering teams on component-library workflows, design token pipelines, CI/CD practices, platform release governance, or documentation automation</li>
<li>Hands-on experience creating front-end prototypes, implementation examples, or component documentation using modern web technologies</li>
<li>Experience supporting a hybrid design-system model where enterprise guidance is adapted into platform-specific implementation and adoption practices</li>
<li>Background in design operations, design tooling, documentation strategy, or platform-level design-system governance</li>
<li>Experience supporting accessibility audits, design-system quality reviews, adoption measurement, or contribution-model improvement</li>
</ul>

Platform Design Systems Lead (Remote)

Platform Design Systems Lead (Remote)

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