As an Art Director working with our Interactive Frameworks and Design team, you will lead a group of design systems designers to create highly considered, elegant design systems that support Web experiences. While you will occasionally roll up your sleeves for hands-on design, your primary focus will be on strategic leadership and collaboration.
You will partner closely with creative, technical, and management disciplines to identify alignment opportunities, drive prioritization, and take ownership of a dedicated stream of work focused on platform-level foundations, UI components, supporting design tools, and documentation. Ultimately, this role requires a master balancer—someone who can seamlessly navigate cross-functional relationships while fusing creativity with logic to thoughtfully scale our holistic design system.
The ideal candidate pairs proven team leadership with the exceptional communication and presentation skills necessary to foster productive partnerships across product design disciplines. Grounded in a deep understanding of branding principles, style guides, and UI design, they bring an elegant aesthetic and exceptional attention to detail to their work. Beyond visual excellence, this individual possesses a high aptitude for synthesizing complex requirements into robust, scalable systems. Finally, to seamlessly bridge design and engineering, they offer expert-level proficiency in Figma and Sketch, alongside a solid working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and React.
Responsibilities
Systematic Design Leadership
• Lead and a small team of designers in crafting elegant, highly polished, and scalable design systems.
• Provide clear design direction that respects existing foundational paradigms while pushing for thoughtful, systematic innovation.
• Champion adaptable and accessible design, rigorously stress-testing components across a variety of workflows, viewports, locales, and technologies.
• Develop high-fidelity prototypes to clearly articulate complex states, animations, and proposed user behaviors.
• Oversee comprehensive documentation, effectively communicating system capabilities, flexibilities, and limitations to creative and technical teams.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Partner tightly with ACDs and project leads to identify opportunities for simplification, structural consistency, and new pattern development, actively helping to shape priorities.
• Bridge the gap between design and engineering, ensuring design files are meticulously prepared and functionality aligns with technical constraints.
• Evangelize purposeful design application, advocating for thoughtful execution over the rigid enforcement of rules.
• Refine design operations, continuously improving how teams collaborate and utilize shared design tools.
Communication & Presentation
• Craft compelling presentation narratives that establish and build upon a strong foundation of design thinking.
• Articulate design rationale with clarity and confidence, successfully communicating intent to a variety of stakeholders.
• Foster constructive dialogue and healthy debate to ensure our design systems remain robust, deeply considered, and pressure-tested.
Core Qualities
• Brand Champion: You have a keen interest in upholding brand identity by perfectly balancing system consistency with creative flexibility.
• Master of Craft: You possess deep proficiency in the formal elements of design—especially typography, balance, and proportion—coupled with a passion for pixel-perfection and order.
• Systematic Forethought: You are a strategic thinker who anticipates the downstream impact of design decisions long before they are implemented.
• Impeccable Organization: You maintain pristine digital file structures and asset management practices.
• Adaptability & Poise: You thrive in a fast-paced, challenging creative environment, consistently delivering strong design rationale and precise assets even under tight timeframes.
Required Skills and Experience
• 10+ years of experience in product design (web, email, and/or design systems), with a proven track record of defining scalable systems within an established brand’s strict style guidelines.
• Demonstrated leadership experience, including design direction, project prioritization, and cross-functional team coordination.
• Expertise in Sketch and Figma, including building pixel-perfect component libraries and design tooling for wider team use.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate ideas and present effectively to both creative and technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
• BA or BFA in Graphic Design (or equivalent experience).
• Acuity in animation.
• Working knowledge of Principle (or similar advanced prototyping tools).
• Strong understanding of Web technologies, including React.
• Strong understanding of LLM structures and optimizing UI and documentation for it.
Hours may fluctuate based on project needs.
