Design Systems Lead
Outreach
Your Daily Adventures:
- Work with a highly adept team of Designers, Engineers, and Product partners to maintain and advance our design system
- Define and execute our design system strategy & roadmap
- Shape the contribution model and governance strategy across the global design team
- Partner closely with other designers to collaborate and iterate on solutions, and expand our design system components and patterns
- Present well-considered design strategies, concepts and prototypes, and communicate the underlying rationale with confidence to your team and leadership
- Craft industry-leading system architectures, user flows, scalable interaction models, workflows, and highly polished UI visuals
- Provide mentorship, education, and documentation across Design, Engineering, and Product about our design system and related processes
- Participate in exploring new design & prototyping tooling, processes, and standards
- Balance customer needs, business goals, and technical considerations to ship UX improvements and feature enhancements that deliver measurable impact
- Gather qualitative and quantitative insights to support your design work, and run usability studies to evaluate proposed solutions
- Become an expert in how sales professionals, teams, and organizations engage their customers with Outreach to exponentially accelerate sales workflows
- Help us co-create a vibrant and inclusive design culture with team members across US, Czechia, and India, focused on mutual support and continuous improvement
Our Vision of You
- Have excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Have a bachelor’s (or equivalent degree) in Design, HCI or equivalent professional experience in design, ideally combined with frontend development background
- Have 8+ years of combined experience in digital product design, design systems, and interaction design
- At least 2+ years dedicated to creating and maintaining design systems
- Expert in Figma (libraries, tokens, auto-layout, variables, and the latest functionality) and well-versed in modern frontend development practices and frameworks
- Have an exceptional portfolio demonstrating experience with design systems, strong visual design sensibilities, and experience creating highly usable design patterns and components that solve clearly defined customer problems
- Familiarity with accessibility and internationalization standards
- Are confident bringing a strong and informed design point of view to the product team and genuinely excited about design systems and the latest industry trends
- Are skilled in presenting and explaining your work, process, decisions, and rationale to cross-functional stakeholders and proactively seek feedback to deliver world class design
- Able to gain authority and credibility to influence stakeholders and get their buy-in
- Are enthusiastic working within agile teams where collaboration and idea generation are part of the rhythm
- Have experience participating in UX research activities
- Are passionate about the details and are excited to keep pushing your work until it is world class
- Are uncompromisingly service-minded and anticipate the needs of customers and colleagues with empathy
You should include these in your application:
- A link to your online portfolio and password
- Your CV and LinkedIn profile
- A few words explaining why Outreach is interesting to you and why you believe it would be a good match