Remote Director Design Systems

Summary

Join MongoDB's Design Systems team as a Design Systems Director to lead the overall strategy, roadmap, and growth of our cross-functional team. You will be responsible for prioritizing a design system roadmap, developing trusted partnerships with Product Design, Engineering, Research, and Brand partners, and shaping processes that support high craftsmanship across the design system suite.

Responsibilities

• Strategically prioritizing a design system roadmap, balancing user needs with business impact, technical complexity, and the health of the design system
• Developing and maintaining trusted partnerships with Product Design, Engineering, Research, and Brand partners to inform project prioritization and execution
• Orchestrating large-scale feature adoption and modernization initiatives that span product teams
• Shaping processes that systematically support a high level of craftsmanship across the design system suite, in partnership with Program Management
• Establishing, socializing, and monitoring team goals and objectives that serve a larger team vision
• Monitoring system use across the enterprise and evangelizing the benefits of the design system throughout the organization
• Evaluating and integrating design systems tools and technologies that can enhance the efficiency of the Design Systems, Product Design, and Engineering teams
• Hiring, mentoring, coaching, and retaining a talented, diverse, inclusive team of Interaction Designers and UI Engineers, including managers and individual contributors
• Designing and scaling the team, partnering closely with Executive Leadership and Talent Acquisition on headcount budgeting and forecasting
• Reporting team performance directly to the VP of Product UX