UX Design, Executive Director - Design Systems

Steer the forefront of Employee Experience innovation by scaling a Design System that enables teams to deliver cohesive, frictionless, and personalized experiences across a global employee population.

As an Experience Design Executive Director in Employee Experience , you will spearhead a team of talented designers to define, govern, and evolve shared design patterns, components, and workflows within the broader employee journey landscape.

Leveraging deep expertise in experience design, you will define and activate processes-spanning contribution models, quality standards, documentation, and release management-that strengthen consistency and accelerate delivery across products.

Your role involves setting quality benchmarks, managing asset delivery (design libraries and coded components alignment), and shaping product initiatives through system adoption, enablement, and measurable outcomes.

A staunch advocate for inclusive design and accessibility, you will model and drive collaboration across Product, Engineering, Content Design, Research, and Accessibility teams to create unparalleled experiences for our diverse employee base.

Your design expertise positions you as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, promoting a culture of collaboration and inclusivity across multidisciplinary teams.

This role sits within Employee Experience, partnering with multiple internal product teams to standardize an omni channel Design System, improve delivery efficiency and drive consistency across employee experiences.

You will collaborate closely with engineering leaders to align design libraries with reusable coded components and establish a scalable release cadence.

You are a player/coach who isn't afraid to roll up their sleeves and can seamlessly context switch between strategy and highly crafted pixels.

Success is measured through adoption, reduced UI inconsistency, improved accessibility outcomes, and faster design-to-development cycles.

The scope includes enabling cross-functional teams across priority employee journeys (e.g.

onboarding, enabling day-to-day work, productivity tools and workflow applications) and across web, mobile, conversational UI, and agentic AI experiences.

Job responsibilities



* Develop and implement Employee Experience Design System strategies aligned to business objectives, applying expertise in interaction design and information architecture, with a focus on standardization and reuse .



* Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of experience designers fostering collaboration, coaching, and performance management.



* Drive innovation by staying abreast of industry trends, design system practices , accessibility standards, and emerging technologies to maintain a user-centric, modern employee experience.



* Design methods to incorporate insights from key performance metrics, utilizing data fluency to inform decision-making and optimize experiences for diverse employee segments; build strong stakeholder relationships...