Design System Manager

Design System Manager (with AI Capabilities) (F/M) 4 days ago – Be among the first 25 applicants. Responsibilities Lead, scale, and govern the Design System. Define and drive the Design System strategy, roadmap, and governance. Ensure the evolution, quality, and maintainability of components, tokens, and interaction patterns. Guarantee coherence and accessibility across all product surfaces (WCAG AA). Drive adoption across product, design, and engineering teams. Partner with Product Designers, Design Leads, and Tech leads to ensure end‑to‑end parity between design and code. Support teams during discovery: consulting, interface audits, component recommendations. Integrate the Design System into product workflows (Jira, dev pipelines, rituals, design reviews). Manage quality, accessibility, and performance, establishing standards, contribution processes, and acceptance criteria. Lead design reviews on high‑impact journeys, scalability issues, and edge cases. Track key metrics: adoption, consistency, design debt, delivery speed. Deliver actionable, concise documentation (guidelines, do/don’t, code examples). Lead onboarding, workshops, and learning programs for designers and engineers. Animate the internal Design System community (demos, newsletters, rituals). Implement AI‑powered tooling and automation to increase speed and efficiency. Explore, evaluate, and integrate emerging AI solutions (semantic search, design QA automation, LLM‑based component mapping). Create AI and automation use cases and ensure they scale and persist. Daily Workflow (Simplified) Discovery: DS consulting, scoping new components, early alignment with feature teams. Delivery: managing Figma libraries, ensuring design–code handover, documenting patterns. Run: handling requests, prioritizing DS backlog, maintaining governance & metrics. Your Environment Design: Figma (tokens, variables, branching, variants, auto‑layout) Engineering: Storybook, UI libraries, design‑token pipelines Culture: accessibility‑first, cross‑functional collaboration, AI‑assisted workflows What You Bring Proven experience managing or scaling a Design System at product/organization level. Strong foundations in UX/UI, systems thinking, accessibility, and component architecture. Leadership and facilitation skills to align diverse stakeholders. Curiosity and drive to leverage AI as a force multiplier for design & product delivery. About The Role As the Design System Manager, you will own the vision, strategy, and execution of the Lacoste Design System. Required Skills Must‑have 3–5 years of experience in Product Design / UI, including 2+ years working on a Design System at scale. Advanced Figma skills (variables, tokens, component properties, variants, libraries, prototyping). Solid understanding of design tokens and code‑side UI libraries (Storybook, React / React Native / SwiftUI). Good foundations in Front‑end (HTML/CSS, TypeScript) or Mobile (iOS/Android) to ensure strong design‑code parity. Strong accessibility culture (WCAG AA) and experience with responsive/adaptive interfaces. Excellent documentation skills (clarity, concision, concrete examples) and a strong ability to explain and teach. A strategic vision of design and the ability to rally teams around a transversal, structuring initiative. Professional French; working proficiency in English (written and spoken) in an international environment. Nice‑to‑have Experience with brand systems. Skills in motion and micro‑interactions (Lottie, Jitter, ProtoPie). Seniority level Director Employment type Full‑time Job function Information Technology – Retail Apparel and Fashion Location Paris, Île‑de‑France, France Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Lacoste by 2x. Get notified about new System Manager jobs in Paris, Île‑de‑France, France. #J-18808-Ljbffr