Lead Front End Designer, Design Systems

Lead Front End Designer, Design Systems

This is a Hybrid position located in Plano, TX. Relocation to Plano, TX is required if you're not located in the Dallas, TX area.

At a Glance

The Design System Front End Designer Lead sets the tone and strategy of our FS Design System from a development perspective. This person will be both a people leader and individual contributor.

Role Focus

The Design System Front End Designer Lead is responsible for setting the tone and strategy of the FS Design System from a development perspective. They’ll work alongside the Design System Visual Design Lead, who is responsible for a similar effort from a visual design perspective. Additional responsibilities include:

• Serving as part of the Design Architecture Leadership Team, advocating and representing the collective perspective of Design Architecture’s developers

• Leading the technical design and implementation of the FS Design System including typography, color, iconography and componentry, and the tools, resources and documentations to support the system

• Supporting the Head of Design Architecture with the Strategic Direction and Impact of FS Design System (developer focus)

• Learning about FS Design System needs, development and adoption as the primary partner to our Tech Leads

• Supporting influence of the Enterprise Design System/Gravity, and driving from a development perspective

• Ensuring the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs

• Creating and maintaining automated tests to ensure quality while saving time and money

• Setting technical standards and best practices for the Design Architecture team

• Collaborating with other team members and stakeholders

• Supporting our Design System customers where they’re at, through working with them to understand issues and challenges and working with the Design Architecture team to resolve those issues and challenges in an expedient manner

• Reporting team and system progress regularly, with a focus on development

• Managing the workload and priorities of additional developers under the direction and support of the Head of FS.xd Design Architecture

• Providing growth and people leadership for Design System Front End Developers within FS Design Architecture

• Providing additional lift for developer support within team (helping spread existing responsibilities that are shared today)

What We’re Looking For

• Systems Thinker: You have a knack for stepping back and looking beyond the immediate problem to see how it fits into the larger ecosystem – across channels, touchpoints, and platforms – and then diving in to nail the important details.

• Intrapreneur: You’ll think about the team, the product, and the customer as parts of your own business; it needs a purpose – whether to solve a problem, entertain, educate, or delight – and you’ll measure its performance against these goals. You don’t wait for the next order to be issued. You seek opportunities and build the case for where the team needs to move next in order to bring the greatest impact.

• Data-Driven: You are clear in articulation of intent and goals, and you know how to use data and research to back up your work. You’ll seek out analytics and user testing data to help you make design decisions, support your design decisions, and iterate on your past design decisions – all so we constantly get better at getting better.

• Facilitator: You are at your best when leading stakeholders and partners through brainstorming sessions, workshopping solutions in a truly collaborative fashion.

• Detail Oriented: You impress your teammates with the ability to pick out small nuances that no one else seems to notice. You’re proud that your production files are always pixel perfect, and you’ve thought through every permutation of your designs, making the development process smooth sailing.

• Flexible: You know that projects can adjust at the drop of a hat, you are adaptable and welcome change.

What You’ll Bring

• In-depth knowledge and experience with design systems and a desire to challenge the status quo and innovate

• Deep expertise in design thinking

• Experience delivering high-quality specifications and documentation for system additions and enhancements

• A cross-disciplinary mindset and an ability to work directly with a design team to facilitate the building of components, patterns and templates

• A passion for creatin