описание
Role purpose:
Lead the enterprise Design Studio as a scalable design function, combining people leadership,
DesignOps, Figma and DLS governance, production-grade AI design, and strong executive stakeholder influence.
задачи
1. Team Leadership
- Lead and develop a large multidisciplinary team across UX, UI, Product Design, Design Systems and DesignOps.
- Assess current team skills, seniority and capacity; maintain a skills matrix and close gaps through hiring and
upskilling.
- Allocate designers by project need, complexity and capacity, and build the next layer of design leadership.
2. DesignOps & Scaled Design Process
- Define a scalable design lifecycle from intake to UX, UI, Design QA, developer handover and release.
- Set clear gates, Definition of Done and SLAs for projects, BAU requests, audits and change requests.
- Manage demand, capacity and priorities, and track KPIs such as turnaround, rework, DLS adoption and stakeholder
satisfaction.
3. Figma Enterprise & DLS Governance
- Own the structure and governance of a complex Figma Enterprise environment: teams, projects, libraries, access
and file lifecycle.
- Ensure approved designs are clearly separated from working, experimental and archived files.
- Own the Design Language System as a product: contribution, versioning, release and alignment with coded
components.
4. AI-Enabled Design
- Move AI beyond POCs into governed, repeatable production workflows across research, UX, UI, DLS documentation,
Design QA and design-to-code.
- Define approved tools, reusable workflows and human review points, compliant with enterprise security and the
DLS.
- Measure AI impact on productivity, cycle time, quality and consistency.
5. Presentation, Storytelling & Stakeholder Management
- Act as the voice of the Design Studio with senior leadership, business, technology teams and vendors.
- Turn complex design and AI topics into clear business stories: problem, user need, rationale, impact and
recommendation.
- Influence decisions, align competing priorities and challenge requirements constructively.
6. Cross-Team & External Design Governance
- Establish a federated model so internal, project and vendor design teams follow common standards.
- Run onboarding, design reviews and audits for work produced outside the Studio, and prevent parallel design
systems.
- Clear roles, processes and standards, with work allocated by capability and capacity.
- A structured, governed and scalable Figma environment and a widely adopted DLS.
- Internal and external design teams working to common standards.
- AI embedded in day-to-day design delivery with measurable results.
- The Design Studio recognized by senior stakeholders as a strategic capability.
требования
- MUST: Proven corporate / large-enterprise experience, working within complex organizational structures,
governance processes and senior stakeholder environments.
- 12+ years in UX/UI, Product or Experience Design, including 5+ years leading multidisciplinary design teams.
- Experience leading a large or distributed design organization and establishing a DesignOps operating model.
- Strong hands-on Figma Enterprise expertise (libraries, variables, permissions, Dev Mode, governance).
- Proven experience building or governing an enterprise-scale design system / DLS.
- Practical experience running AI-assisted design workflows in production, not only POCs.
- Strong design-to-development collaboration with engineering teams.
- Exceptional executive presentation, storytelling and stakeholder-management skills.
Leadership Profile
- Design Leader: credible direction across UX, UI and product design.
- People Leader: builds and grows a large multidisciplinary team.
- DesignOps Leader: turns people, process, Figma and DLS into one operating model.
- AI Design Leader: makes AI part of daily delivery, with measurable value.
- Storyteller & Influencer: simplifies complex problems and wins senior alignment.
