Manager, Design - Systems & Infrastructure

the company is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. the company’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, the company empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!We're looking for a Design Manager to lead the company's internal Design Systems and Design Infrastructure as the company transforms and expands. This is a rare opportunity to become the steward of the system behind how the company designs and builds the company: the foundations, tokens and variables, component libraries, tooling, governance, and shared infrastructure that help our teams create with quality and coherence work will shape every the company product and, through them, the experience of millions of people.This is a senior people leadership role with meaningful scope. You'll lead designers across multiple Design work streams, set direction through a complex transformation, and partner deeply with Design, Product, and Engineering to turn strong foundations into greater quality, speed, and leverage across the company. If you believe the best systems create coherence without limiting the autonomy teams need to do exceptional work, this is the role for you.This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.What you’ll do at the company:Lead and grow designers across the company's internal Design Systems foundations, tokens and variables, component libraries, internal tooling, governance, and adoptionSet an ambitious vision and quality bar for how the company's internal design system evolves, translating the company's transformation into coherent, durable foundations for the product suitePartner with Design, Product, and Engineering leaders on strategy, resourcing, technical direction, adoption, and execution across a complex organizationBring clarity and momentum to ambiguous, cross-functional work, balancing system coherence with the autonomy product teams need to solve distinct problems wellEvolve the Design Systems operating model, including governance, contribution paths, critiques and reviews, documentation, feedback loops, and adoption practicesHire, coach, retain, and develop an exceptional team, helping designers grow their craft, judgment, and leadership across multiple work streamsRepresent the Design Systems perspective in broader organizational decisions and ensure the company's design infrastructure evolves with its expanding product suiteWe’d love to hear from you if you have:4+ years of design management experience, including direct people leadership across multiple work streams and a strong track record of hiring, coaching, retaining, and developing designersTechnical fluency with design foundations, tokens and variables, component libraries, internal tooling, and system architecture, plus direct experience applying or leading AI-enabled Design Systems workflowsExperience evolving an internal design system at scale, earning trust across a sizable product organization, and leading the change required to drive meaningful adoptionDeep, hands-on the company expertise, high agency, end-to-end ownership, and a track record of creating clarity and momentum through organizational changeExperience connecting coded component systems with design libraries and design-to-code workflowsWhile not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:Building token pipelines and maintaining reliable synchronization between design foundations and…