Design Systems Lead

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $157.4k - $174.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

✍️ Designer

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Discovery Education

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2001

📚 Education

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

Education • B2B • SaaS

Discovery Education is a provider of K‑12 instructional solutions and digital resources. The company markets curriculum and learning solutions for school districts across major subjects, offers demonstrations and resources for educators, and operates internationally (United States, Canada, United Kingdom, México, Australia). Its site emphasizes district-level solutions, resources, and corporate partnerships to support classroom instruction.

📋 Description

• Audit and evaluate the Atlas and Nebula design systems to identify overlaps, gaps, and consolidation opportunities • Lead the evolution toward a unified, scalable design system architecture for multiple products and platforms • Define standards for component governance, lifecycle management, system documentation, contribution workflows, ownership, and adoption • Own the unified design system roadmap and decision-making • Liaise between design and engineering teams for design system development • Partner with engineers to translate components efficiently from design into production code • Align design and development workflows to reduce duplication and improve implementation quality • Establish and maintain design-to-engineering workflows using libraries, tokens, specs, and collaboration practices • Research and implement tools for design system development and front-end collaboration • Explore AI-assisted design and development tools • Introduce processes for faster prototyping and reduced design-engineering friction • Participate in product kickoffs with Product Design, Product Management, Curriculum, and Engineering • Evaluate initiatives for design system scalability and platform consistency • Determine which patterns and components belong in the shared system versus remaining product-specific • Create adoption enablement through guidance, office hours, and training • Track design system adoption and metrics across teams and products • Measure development efficiency, component reuse, design consistency, and team satisfaction • Refine governance and workflows based on organizational and product needs • Report on adoption, reuse, consistency, and delivery efficiency and drive continuous improvement

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in design systems, front-end (or design technology), or design-to-engineering workflows, with demonstrated impact on shipped products • Proven ability to lead the strategy, architecture, and governance of a multi-product design system • Strong cross-functional influence to align designers, engineers, and product partners around shared standards, tradeoffs, and roadmap priorities • Deep knowledge of design system foundations, including design tokens, accessibility standards, responsive patterns, and modern design tools such as Figma libraries and prototyping • Familiarity with front-end frameworks and version control workflows • Experience defining success metrics and using data and feedback to iterate on system direction and team workflows • Ability to mentor and enable designers and engineers through documentation, office hours, playbooks, and training • Comfortable operating autonomously in ambiguous problem spaces, communicating recommendations, and driving decisions with senior stakeholders • Legal right to work in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual Bonus • Remote work