Lead Product Designer - Design System

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Requirements:

• Proven experience with Design Systems: Your portfolio highlights multiple design systems you’ve created or largely contributed to, showcasing a strong understanding of scalable design. Ideally, you have approx 6+ years in Product Design with 2+ years at least specialising in design systems.
• You have experience designing for both mobile app and desktop environments, ensuring seamless usability across devices.
• Skilled in creating modular, accessible, and user-centred designs that scale to millions of users.
• Comfortable working within diverse, fast-paced teams, you have a track record of effective collaboration in a rapid-growth environment.
• You’re motivated by seeing tangible impact, excited by the idea that work done on a Monday could be live by Friday, driving results.
• Experienced in partnering closely with engineers, you understand the technical considerations of design system implementation.
• You value experimentation, data, and analysis, using these insights to inform and iterate on design decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Define and evolve visual language: Work with Principal designers to lead the development of Cleonardo’s visual language —including typography, colour, iconography, and componentry—ensuring consistency with Cleo’s rebrand and scalability across products.
• Integrate new brand elements into Cleonardo to create a cohesive and accessible design system that reflects our refreshed look and feel across all Cleo products.
• Apply strategic thinking and a big-picture perspective to evolve the design system, identifying and addressing challenges that span across teams and user experiences.
• Regularly audit Cleo’s UI and design system to identify and resolve inconsistencies, continuously improving Cleonardo’s alignment with brand standards and design quality.
• Manage Cleonardo’s Figma libraries for desktop and mobile, ensuring they are accessible, scalable, and integrated into team workflows.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to embed Cleonardo across Cleo, establishing a contribution model that enables efficient collaboration and system coherence.
• Embed accessibility and inclusion standards within Cleonardo, ensuring that all elements meet and exceed accessibility requirements.
• Act as an ambassador for the design system, providing regular updates to stakeholders and educating teams on new patterns and components.
• Bring fresh, forward-thinking ideas to the table, exploring new approaches to design systems that can elevate Cleo’s user experience and set new standards for quality and accessibility.
• Work closely with product, engineering, brand, and content teams to align Cleonardo with broader company goals, ensuring that the design system meets diverse needs and drives consistency across departments.