Design System Lead – VP, Hybrid

Who we are looking for

State Street is looking for a highly-motivated, Design System Lead to join our design team. State Street designers have tremendous responsibility in defining the product and experience strategy, understanding and communicating user needs, and working with teams across multiple areas to prototype and build new digital experiences. We are looking for experienced designers who love to transform large-scale, complex problems into intuitive, simple and impactful products. We know that the success of our business depends on our ability to deliver exceptional customer experiences, and we need designers who can collaborate with engineers, product owners, and others across the business to bring them to life.

As the Design System Lead, you will be responsible for building and managing a team of designers dedicated to maintaining and evolving our design system including foundations, components, and patterns, across informational, conversational and complex product themes. You will collaborate closely with teams of designers, engineers, product leaders, global marketing, and other design system leads to ensure that our design assets and guidance are responsive to the needs of product design teams while delviering cohesive and world-class customer experiences. 

This role can be performed in a hybrid model, where you can balance work from home and office to match your needs and role requirements.

What you will be responsible for

As Designer System Lead you will

• Lead a team of designers focused on developing, maintaining, and evolving a scalable design system that supports the organization’s diverse portfolio of products and services with the engineering area.
• Partner with engineers to define strategies for tokenization, governance, contribution model
• Oversee API-based component design and FIGMA component construction.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment across design, engineering, brand and product.
• Establish best practices for creating, managing, and distributing Figma assets and ensuring consistency across our product porfolios.
• Create and oversee strategy and implementation of library ecosystem tiering, and publishing
• Advocate convergence of a unified design language
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and integrate modern best practices into the design system.
• Conduct necessary research, audit and construction of design assets.

What we value

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• 8+ years industry experience in innovating digital product design, strong knowledge enterprise design systems
• Navigate complexity and ambiguity in a large-scale, fast-paced financial services environment to deliver solutions that meet both business and user needs.
• Agile critical thinker with passion for navigating and resolving complexity and ambiguity
• Demonstrates high level of client focus, service-mindset and ownership; running to problems and accountability as we escort designs from concept to production
• Experience/aptitude in UX design (ability so create sitemaps, wireframes, user journeys, prototypes, etc.
• Success cresting and launching products/experiences in a large production program with product owners, engineering and design
• Seeks to understand user behavior and motivations using qualitative and quantitative research methods
• Experience working with design systems and demonstrable understanding of the benefits of re-use and design standardization
• You can build consensus around your creative vision, defend decisions with research or industry best practices and guide your colleagues on executing it
• Experience in design thinking/human centered design process
• Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders and negotiate outcomes to drive commercial value creation
• Demonstrated experience building relationships and influencing senior leadership
• Proficient in FIGMA, experience with Adobe Create Suite, and prototyping tools
• Degree or Master's degree in design, UX, industrial design, HCI or related field

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years industry experience in innovating digital product design
• Agile critical thinker with passion for navigating and resolving complexity and ambiguity
• Demonstrates high level of client focus, service-mindset and ownership; running to problems and accountability as we escort designs from concept to production
• Experience/aptitude in UX design (ability so create sitemaps, wireframes, user journeys, prototypes, etc.
• Success cresting and launching products/experiences in a large production program with product owners, engineering and design
• Seeks to understand user behavior and motivat