Lead UI Designer (Design Systems)

As a Lead UI Designer (Design Systems) at Landmark Group, you will be responsible for taking ownership of the enterprise-wide design system for the e-commerce platforms, ensuring design consistency, and enabling front-end teams with robust, reusable components. **Role Overview:** You will lead the development and management of a dedicated design system team, collaborating cross-functionally with UX designers, developers, and product managers. Your expertise in design tokenization, front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, React), and AI-driven component design will play a crucial role in ensuring the digital ecosystem is cohesive, scalable, and future-ready. **Key Responsibilities:** - Establish, maintain, and scale the design system to ensure consistency across web and mobile applications. - Develop governance processes for design tokens, components, and UI patterns. - Ensure brand coherence across platforms by defining and enforcing UI guidelines. - Educate and advocate for design system adoption across teams. - Develop tokenized design systems for flexible theming, localization, and customization. - Lead AI-driven enhancements for intelligent, adaptive UI components. - Partner with engineering teams to create scalable, performant UI components in HTML and React. - Drive accessibility, responsiveness, and performance best practices. - Hire, mentor, and lead a small team of UI designers focused on design system excellence. - Stay updated on emerging UI trends, AI-driven design automation, and component-based architecture and motion design/animation. - Implement usage analytics to track adoption and optimize design system efficiency. **Qualifications Required:** - 6+ years of UI Design experience, with at least 3 years managing a design system. - Strong understanding of design tokens, theming, and component-based design. - Proficiency in Figma (component libraries, auto-layout, prototyping). - Solid technical foundation in front-end development (HTML, CSS, React). - Experience working in e-commerce platforms and scalable multi-brand design systems. - Ability to mentor and manage a small team of UI designers. If you are familiar with AI-driven design tools, have experience collaborating with React/Vue developers, or have implemented analytics within a design system to track usage, it would be considered a plus.,