Senior Design System Lead

Senior Design System Lead – Design Operations

About the Role: The Senior Design System Lead is responsible for developing, maintaining, and promoting a design system across an organization, ensuring consistency in user interfaces and experiences by collaborating with designers, developers, and product managers to establish and enforce design guidelines, components, and patterns, while also overseeing the system's evolution and accessibility across all products. 

Our Design operations team is a cross-functional group of designers and technicians, responsible for building and maintaining the design system, accessibility standards for all screens and expanding.

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"Player/Coach” who has helped build and lead product design teams and mentor eager designers to continued success and professional growth

• 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

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership:
  • Define the vision and roadmap for the design system, aligning it with company goals and product strategies. 
  • Establish clear design principles and standards for the system, ensuring consistency across all products. 
• Advocate for design system adoption across teams and promote its value in improving development efficiency. 
• Leverage the Design system to provide efficiencies
• Design Leadership • Provide guidance to external designers, promoting a user-centered design philosophy and best practices for system components.

• Design System Development:
  • Oversee the design, development, and documentation of reusable UI components, patterns, and interaction guidelines. 
  • Ensure accessibility considerations are integrated into the design system throughout development. 
  • Prioritize features and improvements based on user feedback and usage data.
  • Work with Product and technical partners to set technical standards and best practices for the Design system

• Design system Governance
  • Oversee the robust documentation of the design system
  • Define with tech the semantics
  • Lead, Track and define patterns

• Collaboration and Communication:
  • Work closely with product teams to understand their needs and incorporate them into the design system. 
  • Regularly communicate design system updates, best practices, and usage guidelines to designers and developers across the organization. 
  • Facilitate feedback loops to gather input from stakeholders and iterate on the design system. 

• Technical Oversight:
  • Monitor the technical implementation of the design system, ensuring compatibility with different platforms and frameworks. 
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to address technical challenges related to design system integration. 

Required Skills and Experience:

• Strong understanding of design principles, user experience (UX) best practices, and accessibility guidelines 
• Proven experience managing complex design projects 
• Expertise in design tools and technologies (e.g., Figma, Zeplin, Axure) 
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams 
• Ability to think strategically and translate business needs into design system features 
• Experience with front-end development technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) is beneficial 
• Proven experience in designing for native iOS and Android apps.

•  Excellent understanding of web standards, HTML/CSS, and basic understanding of Javascript.

• Understanding of e-commerce design best practices and ADA compliance for inclusive design

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of experience preferred

• Working knowledge of XD, Figma (Axure and Power point a plus)

Anticipated salary range: $103,500 - $155,295

Bonus eligible: Yes

Benefits: Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Paid time off plan
• Health savings account (HSA)
• 401k savings plan
• Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• Work-Life resources
• Paid parental leave
• Healthy lifestyle programs

Application window anticipated to close: 04/05/2025 *if interested in opportunity, please submit application as soon as possible.

The salary range listed is an estimate. Pay at Cardinal Health is determined by multiple factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s geographical location, relevant education, experience and skills and an evaluation of internal pay equity.

Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.

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