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Carta · 3 days ago
Director of Design, Design Systems
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Director
$225K/yr - $300K/yr
12+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Develop and evangelize the overall strategy of our design systems evolution, ensuring it’s focused on making an impact on our products
Ship with speed and consistency, while setting the future vision
Get your hands dirty to lead workshops and key projects that advance our design system
Align cross-functional stakeholders and executives on the importance of design systems and the value of ongoing work
Promote design excellence and quality standards across all products through collaborative efforts with your team and the broader product design organization.
Partner with PM and Engineering Leads to create a holistic system that works well for both our customers and our internal teams and establish approaches to measure the effectiveness of the system
Hire, retain and develop a bar-raising design team
Contribute to building a strong human centered design culture
Qualification
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Required
12+ years of product design experience, with at least 5 years focused on design systems
A strong portfolio of case studies that demonstrate a deep understanding of design systems and successful track record of execution across multiple products and platforms
Experience leading and managing a Design System team at a similarly sized organization and design systems ‘maturity level'
Deep expertise in UI/UX craft; passion for visual design, interaction details, typography, accessibility, and pixel perfect deliverables
Strategic, systems thinker who can work at various altitudes as needed
Exceptional communication and storytelling skills that allow you to convey the strategic value of design systems to executives and across the organization
Experience influencing and educating cross-functional teams
Understanding that managing/leading can also mean actively contributing to team projects
Technically proficient in building and scaling systems across platforms; from figma to code
Familiarity with latest developments in design systems and tools; figma, storybook, github etc
Ability to work in a dynamic environment — balancing rigor and scrappiness
High comfort level with ambiguity; openness to critique from other disciplines and curiosity to learn from a spectrum of perspectives
Passion for mentoring designers and teaching about design craft and quality
Experience actively managing designers at different stages of their careers
Preferred
Nice-to-have: experience with finance or either the venture capital or private equity space
Benefits
Market competitive salary
Equity for all full-time roles
Exceptional benefits
Commissions plans
Company
Carta
Carta is a global ownership management platform that helps companies, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership.
1,001-5,000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2022 (18)
2021 (37)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.16BKey Investors
Silver LakeTribe CapitalAndreessen Horowitz
2021-08-13Series G· $500M
2021-04-21Series Unknown· Undisclosed
2021-02-04Secondary Market· Undisclosed
Leadership Team
Henry Ward
CEO
Jerry Talton
Chief Technology Officer
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