Job
- Level
- Lead
- Job Field
- UX/UI
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Berlin, Darmstadt, Bonn
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you define and evolve the strategy for the design system, drive initiatives across cross-functional teams, and promote the implementation of components that ensure quality and accessibility.
Your role in the team
- As Lead Design Systems (m/f/d), you define and develop the vision and strategy for Telekom's design system in collaboration with Design, Engineering, and Product leadership.
- You drive design system initiatives across cross-functional teams while providing expert design leadership and have further tasks such as:
- Own and evolve components, tokens, patterns and guidelines to ensure consistency, quality and accessibility.
- Enable designers, engineers and product teams to adopt, contribute to and continuously improve the design system.
- Balance standardization with flexibility, enabling innovation within shared foundations.
- Champion accessibility and inclusive design as core principles.
- Identify opportunities to improve tooling, governance and workflows while integrating emerging technologies.
- Mentor designers and foster excellence through coaching and knowledge sharing without direct disciplinary responsibility.
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Our expectations of you
Education
- You hold a degree in Design or a related discipline combined with several years of experience leading large-scale design systems in complex product organizations.
Qualifications
- Starke Designführung mit der Fähigkeit, ohne formale Autorität Einfluss zu nehmen.
- Excellent interaction, visual and systems design skills.
- Technische Kompetenz im Umgang mit Design Tokens, Front-End-Frameworks und Design-Tools.
- Deep knowledge of accessibility and inclusive design.
- Strategisches Denken im Einklang mit Geschäfts- und Produktzielen.
- Hervorragende Kommunikations-, Moderations- und Stakeholder-Management-Fähigkeiten.
- Cross-functional leadership and change management capabilities.
- Fluent English; German is a plus.
Experience
- In addition to your experience in influencing multidisciplinary teams across Design, Engineering and Product you have following skills:
- Proven experience leading enterprise-scale design systems.
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What we offer
- Value-based innovation culture that unites creativity, responsibility and purpose.
- International and diverse team collaborating across domains and locations.
- Meaningful projects with global customer impact.
- Kreatives Umfeld, das Experimentieren und Zusammenarbeit fördert.
- Continuous learning and career development opportunities.
- Onsite in Bonn, Berlin or Darmstadt.
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Higher Take-Home Pay
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About Your Employer
Deutsche Telekom AG
We are paving the way for a Gigabit society: As one of the leading companies in communications and information technology, we are shaping the digital world of tomorrow with innovative solutions for private and business customers.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
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Lead Design Systems
- Location
- Berlin, Darmstadt, Bonn
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
