Design Systems Lead (COMET)
Project description
We are looking for a Design Systems Lead for our client, one of the world's largest natural resource companies. The role will focus on establishing and evolving a unified design system across an enterprise-grade Commodity Trading & Risk Management (CTRM) platform built on multiple micro-frontends. The platform (COMET) requires a single accountable expert to define, govern, and scale a consistent UI layer across teams. The successful candidate will ensure that design and implementation remain fully aligned by owning the end-to-end design system lifecycle, from Figma design standards to front-end component implementation. This is a senior, hands-on individual contributor role with no direct reports, requiring strong expertise in both UX systems design and front-end engineering practices. The individual will act as the key authority for UI consistency, reuse, and design governance across multiple development teams.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the enterprise design system including components, patterns, and design tokens
- Define and manage versioning, documentation standards, contribution model, and deprecation lifecycle for UI assets
- Improve and maintain the design token pipeline and ensure seamless design-to-code synchronization
- Expand and govern Storybook as the canonical component library for the platform
- Implement and enforce visual regression testing for UI consistency across releases
- Define and enforce UI Definition of Done, ensuring reuse of existing components and tokens
- Run intake, triage, and governance process ensuring teams prioritize reuse over duplication
- Enforce design system compliance through code reviews, linting rules, and onboarding standards
- Monitor, analyze, and report adoption metrics and UI drift to UX/UI Lead and Front-End Lead
- Collaborate closely with design, engineering, and platform teams to ensure alignment between UX vision and implementation
SKILLS
Must have
- Proven experience building and/or operating an enterprise-scale design system
- Strong hands-on experience with Figma in a design system context
- Deep knowledge of design tokens, token architecture, and design-to-code pipelines
- Practical experience with Storybook and component library governance
- Experience implementing or working with visual regression testing frameworks
- Strong expertise in CSS/SCSS and scalable UI architecture patterns
- Solid understanding of modern front-end engineering practices (micro-frontends is a plus)
- Experience working in large-scale, multi-team enterprise environments
- Ability to operate as a senior individual contributor with strong ownership mindset
- Strong communication skills and ability to drive adoption across engineering teams
- English: C1 Advanced
Nice to have
• Experience in data-dense enterprise applications (e.g., trading, finance, analytics platforms) • Hands-on engineering background in front-end development • Exposure to Angular-based enterprise applications • Experience working in or around micro-frontend architectures • Knowledge or exposure to backend systems in enterprise environments • Experience with AI-assisted development workflows or "agentic AI" tooling for engineering productivity
