Principal Product Manager, Design Systems & Accessibility
Job Details
- Experience
- At least 10 years of product management or relevant professional experience, including 3 or more years leading complex design systems, internal platforms, shared tools, or other horizontal products across multiple teams.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of product management or relevant professional experience.
- At least 3 years leading complex design systems, internal platforms, shared tools, or other horizontal products across multiple teams.
- Ability to develop product strategies and roadmaps, prioritize investments, and manage complex dependencies.
- Strong understanding of design systems, including their strategy, adoption, governance, and evolution.
- Ability to understand complex technical systems and evaluate architectural and implementation trade-offs.
- Experience defining product metrics, analyzing adoption and performance data, and using evidence to guide decisions.
- Ability to influence roadmaps across distributed teams without direct authority and build stakeholder alignment.
- Experience driving adoption of internal platforms, shared systems, or foundational capabilities is an advantage.
- Strong understanding of AI-enabled product development and practical experience using AI to improve product management workflows.
- Familiarity with WCAG 2.2 Level AA is a plus.
- Familiarity with AI development tools, Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI skills, agents, or evaluation systems is beneficial.
- Ability to work remotely from an eligible location within the United States, subject to applicable geographic restrictions.
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the product vision, strategy, and integrated roadmap for design systems.
- Establish success metrics, product health indicators, and measurement frameworks for adoption and value.
- Balance investment in capabilities, system quality, accessibility, adoption, technical improvements, support, and enablement.
- Use customer feedback, adoption data, and product insights to identify workflow barriers and prioritize improvements.
- Align Product, Design, Engineering, Design Technology, Developer Experience, and senior leadership on priorities and trade-offs.
- Define product priorities for accessibility systems, tooling, integrations, and product health capabilities.
- Advance automated accessibility checks, CI/CD integrations, audits, and remediation workflows.
- Analyze audit findings and accessibility health signals to identify recurring issues and scalable solutions.
- Partner with accessibility program leadership to translate organizational policies and priorities into product investments.
- Evolve design systems, shared components, documentation, and accessibility standards for AI-enabled workflows.