Design System Manager Jobs in Atlanta, GA (NOW HIRING)

Job Description Summary:
The Coca-Cola Company is transforming its supply chain for the future. As a business operating at extraordinary scale, we are building the digital capabilities, platforms, and intelligent systems that will redefine how we plan, produce, move, and deliver products.
We are creating a more connected, data-driven supply chain that empowers teams with greater visibility, faster decision making, and seamless collaboration across planning, manufacturing, logistics, and customer fulfillment. This transformation extends beyond process improvement. It is an opportunity to shape the next generation of supply chain capabilities through automation, AI, advanced analytics, intelligent planning, and digital operations that drive growth, resilience, and operational excellence.
We're bringing together Product, Engineering, Design, and Data in small, empowered teams with ownership from discovery through delivery and iteration. Design and research are central to this shift, helping teams understand how people actually work, simplify complex systems, and create experiences that are coherent, useful, and built for impact.
This is a chance to help define what great product design looks like inside one of the world's most iconic brands: deeply practical, beautifully crafted, and built for a business where digital and the physical world meet every day.
What You Will Work On
Staff Designers at The Coca-Cola Company operate across product areas, not just within one. Your scope will span:

• Digital supply chain capabilities and experiences that enable planning, manufacturing, logistics, and customer fulfillment across Coca-Cola's North America network
• Operational platforms and decision-support tools used by teams that plan, make, move, and deliver products every day
• The design system and shared experience frameworks that give our products coherence at scale
• AI-enabled and intelligent product experiences as we integrate emerging capabilities across our platform
• The design practice itself: how we work, how we grow designers, and how we earn influence across the organization

You will not be heads-down on a single product area. You will be the connective tissue across teams, the person who sees the whole board and makes the right calls about where design needs to go next.
Responsibilities
Strategic Design Influence and Leadership

• Co-create product strategy with product management and engineering partners for your areas, shaping vision and roadmap from the start, not after the fact
• Craft UX direction across multiple product areas, ensuring coherence, quality, and user-centricity across multiple user types
• Anticipate and break down organizational and technical resistance, navigating ambiguity with confidence and earning trust through sound judgment
• Executive-level communication on design strategy, crafting narratives that land with senior leadership and move stakeholders to alignment

Design Craft and Innovation

• Develop seamless, scalable design solutions that prioritize customer value and address complex, interconnected needs
• Work with Design leader and team to establish our design system, ensuring it evolves to meet the demands of a growing, global product portfolio
• Model exceptional craft standards and hold a high bar for quality across every experience the team ships
• Introduce and champion new design approaches, tools, and methodologies, including AI-assisted design, that help the team move faster without sacrificing rigor

Practice Building and Governance

• Create and maintain governance practices around design systems, accessibility, and experience standards
• Partner with Product and Design leadership to define how design works at Coca-Cola: the rituals, frameworks, and ways of working that make the team effective and scalable
• Scale your expertise: Identify gaps in practice maturity and proactively close them, building systems, workflows or infrastructure that allows other designers to do their best work

Mentorship and Talent Growth

• Mentor and develop design craft and experience strategy on the team, actively investing in the growth and evolution of design at The Coca-Cola Company
• Lead critique, feedback, and review processes that raise the quality of the team's work and develop design judgment across the organization
• Foster a culture of experimentation, reflection, and continuous improvement, making learning a visible and valued part of how the team operates

Cross-Functional Influence

• Build deep, trusted relationships with product, engineering, data, and research partners at the most senior levels
• Secure stakeholder buy-in through compelling storytelling and a track record of delivering outcomes, not just artifacts
• Represent the design organization in strategic conversations across the business, advocating for user-centered approaches with clarity and credibility

What We Are Looking For
Required

• 8-10 years of product design or UX experience, with at least 2 years operating at a staff, principal, or design lead level
• Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• A portfolio demonstrating strategic design and thought leadership on complex, high-impact digital products with measurable business and user outcomes
• Proven ability to co-own product strategy alongside product management and engineering, shaping direction from the top down, not just responding to it
• Experience contributing to or significantly evolving a design system and the governance practices around it, especially how embedded AI components work within and across platforms. Know the difference between traditional UX, AI in UX and Agentic UX principles and why they matter, with examples.
• Strong storytelling and communication skills: you can tailor your message to any audience and consistently earn alignment from senior stakeholders
• Demonstrated success mentoring or peer-coaching designers and influencing team capability, not just delivering great work yourself
• Deep fluency in user-centered design, accessibility standards, and interaction design across web and mobile platforms
• Proficiency in Figma, Claude Code, Claude Design and other modern (AI) prototyping tools, with clear examples of how AI is incorporated into your workflows, how you evaluate AI capabilities, as well as how your inputs and outcomes have improved in the last 18 months

Preferred

• Background in complex B2B Saas or enterprise software, CPG, retail, or ecommerce that span multiple user roles, geographies, and touchpoints, often building systems or connected platforms from the ground up.
• Expertise designing for or alongside AI-enabled and intelligent systems, including agentic or generative experiences
• Experience operating across both consumer-facing and internal tooling product contexts

Core Skills

• Strategic Vision: You can evaluate opportunities and deliver design vision with confidence, connecting user needs, business goals, and technical realities into a coherent experience strategy that others rally behind.
• Design Craft at Scale: You design experiences that are intuitive, accessible, and elegant, and you build the systems that make quality repeatable across a team.
• Effective Influence: You communicate with clarity and credibility at every level of the organization, earning trust through both the quality of your thinking and the outcomes you deliver.
• Practice Leadership: You build the infrastructure, culture, and habits that make a design team great, not just the work that comes out of it.
• Mentorship and Coaching: You invest the people around you and make developing designers a core part of how you lead.
• Customer-First Judgment: You hold the line on user value when tradeoffs get hard, and you do it in ways that bring partners with you rather than creating friction.

To be considered for this role, please include your portfolio link and any required access credentials (e.g., password) directly on your resume - we'd love to see your work!
The Coca-Cola Company will not offer sponsorship for employment status (including, but not limited to, H1-B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require The Coca-Cola Company's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.
Skills:
Agile Methodology, Application Development, Budgeting, Business Processes, Business Value Creation, Change Management, Decision Making, Financial Forecasting, Leadership, Long Term Planning, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Office, Negotiation, Process Improvements, Risk Assessments, Risk Management, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Strategic Alignment, Strategic IT, Structured Query Language (SQL), Vendor Management, Waterfall Model
Pay Range:
United States: 202,000 - 229,000 USD
Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.
Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:
30
Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.
Location(s):
United States of America
City/Cities:
Atlanta
Travel Required:
00% - 25%
Relocation Provided:
Yes
Job Posting End Date:
September 11, 2026
Our Purpose and Growth Culture:
We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what's possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors - curious, empowered, inclusive and agile - and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.
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