Design System Manager

**About BlaBlaCar** BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel app enabling 27 million members a year to carpool or travel by bus in 21 countries. Our team of 800 employees counts over 50 nationalities and is spread across our 5 global offices, 30% working fully remotely. **Your Mission** We are looking for a Design System Manager to ensure the continued growth and scalability of our design system, PIXAR. This role is essential for maintaining consistency and efficiency across multiple platforms, working closely with product, design, and development teams. Reporting to the Head of Product Design, you will be a key part of the Design Team. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and work closely with the Design System Guild, a group of expert engineers dedicated to maintaining and evolving the system. Together, you will ensure the design system adapts to the company’s growth. **Your Responsibilities**: - ** Industrialization Strategy**:Develop a strategic vision for industrialising the design system, reducing reliance on manual updates, and increasing efficiency, consistency and integration with product and engineering pipelines. - ** System Performance and Efficiency**:Ensure the design system is optimised for performance and scalability, so it can meet future product demands. - ** Accessibility and Compliance**:Ensure the design system is fully compliant with accessibility standards (WCAG, RGAA), and automate accessibility checks where possible to streamline compliance without additional manual effort. - ** Cross-Team Collaboration**:Work closely with Designers, Content and Localization team, UX Research, Brand team, product teams, and development to continuously iterate and improve the design system based on data, ensuring the system evolves to meet changing user and product needs. - ** Design System's maintenance and documentation**:Ensure all guidelines, components, and processes are easily accessible. Automate updates and component management wherever possible to maintain consistency. **Your Qualifications**: - Experience with automation tools and workflows for design systems, including the use of design tokens and automated updates. - Extensive experience with Figma, including managing shared component libraries and Tokens, focusing on automation and system integration. - Strong understanding of frontend development, particularly how design systems are implemented in code (e.g., experience with any component-based frontend framework, regardless of platform, such as React, Compose or SwiftUI, experience with GitHub) - Proven experience in significantly building or reshaping a design system from the ground up, with a focus on scalability, industrialization, and automation. - Strong experience in creating and maintaining documentation for design systems, ensuring that guidelines, standards, and processes are clearly communicated and easily accessible for both designers and developers. - Strong understanding of accessibility best practices and how to integrate them into a design system. - Ability to clearly articulate the design system’s rationale and technical requirements, ensuring alignment with both design and development teams. - Proven ability to mentor designers to embrace opinionated design system processes. - Fluency in English **What we have to offer**: - Full remote possible in the country of employment - 4 additional weeks of Maternity leaves and Paternity leaves paid - Financial support for home office equipment - Minimum 25 days holiday per year - Local meal plan policies (Swile card in France) - 50% transportation paid in France (Forfait Mobilité Durable) - Relocation package and visa support - Free unlimited carpooling & bus rides - Personal growth via trainings, mentorship, and internal mobility programs - Employee Stock ownership plan - Regular team building events - Mental health support through Moka.care - Paid leave - "be the member day" **Interested in joining the ride? Here’s what your hiring journey will look like.**: - a 45-min video-call with Amélia De Temmerman, Talent Acquisition Managers to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions - a 45-min video-call with our Head of Product Design, Claire Gautier, to deepdive into your knowledge and experience in Product Design - a fully remote exercise to evaluate your craft and your ability to solve problems with simple and smart solutions, including a presentation to key stakeholders - a following live working session with future peers to evaluate your ability to integrate feedback in your reflection and propose alternative solutions in a fast pace environment - a 30-min video-call with Benjamin Retourné, CPO, for a final validation