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Senior Design System Lead

Company:

The Boeing Company

We are looking for a Design System Leadto own the strategy, evolution, and governance of our design systems shared design language and UI component library in Seattle, WA or Denver, CO. In this role, you will bridge the gap between design and engineering, ensuring our product experiences are scalable, accessible, and cohesive. You will act as a champion for the system(s), driving adoption across cross-functional teams and accelerating our product development lifecycle.

Position Responsibilities:

• AI-Driven Design Operations:Integrate AI tools and workflows into the design systemlifecycle to automate asset creation, code generation, and documentation.

• EcosystemStrategy:Oversee and scale the entire design systemecosystem, ensuring seamless integration across variousplatforms (Web, iOS, Android), sub-brands, and business units.

• Strategy & Roadmap:Define the vision, governancemodel, and long-termroadmap for the design systemto supportmulti-platformgrowth.

• Documentation & Standards:Create andmaintain clearusage guidelines, contribution rules, and component documentation to support consistent adoption of the design system.

• Governance & Component Lifecycle:Establish standard processes for proposing, creating, testing, versioning, approving exceptions, and deprecating systemassets to ensure new components and patterns align with system standards.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration:Partner with Product Designers, Engineers, and ProductManagers to align design assets, support adoption, andmaintain design systemstandards across teams.

• SystemMaintenance:Manage design libraries in Figmaand collaborate with engineering tomaintain corresponding front-end code repositories.

• Adoption & Enablement:Promote systemadoption, run training workshops, write documentation, and support onboarding for new teammembers.

• Metrics & Reporting:Define, track, and share design systemsuccessmetrics, such as adoption rates and design/development velocity gains.

• Industry Fluency (or Emerging Practices):Brings genuine curiosity and enthusiasm for the craft by staying at the forefront of design systems thinking through conferences, community engagement, and self-driven learning, then translating those insights into shared knowledge that raises the bar for the whole team.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• 1+ years hands-on experience leveraging AI plugins, LLMs/ML, or prompt engineering to generate code tokens, automate Figma workflows, or draft systemdocumentation

• 3+ years experiencemanaging complex design systemecosystems, including handling cross-platformsynchronization,multi-brand themes, and tokenmanagement systems (e.g., Tokens Studio, Figma Variables)

• 3+ years in Product Design, UI Engineering, or Design Operations

• 3+ years expertise in Figmaincluding variables, auto-layout, component properties, strong naming conventions, file structure, version control practices,and librarymanagement.

• 3+ years of front-end code and technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, token architecture, and frameworks like Angular, React and SwiftUI)

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Systems Thinking:Expert ability to conceptualize complex, scalable UI patterns and understand how individual components impact the entire ecosystem

• Operational Skills:Strong organization and programmanagement skills, including prioritization, release coordination, and tracking systemwork

• Leadership:Proven ability to influence without authority,managemultiple stakeholders, and advocate for system-level changes

• Accessibility:Strong knowledge of WCAG standards and how to build accessible design components.

Conflict of Interest: Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company's Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.

Drug Free Workplace:
Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

Pay & Benefits:
At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage, and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.

The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Summary pay range: $142,800 - $193,200

Language Requirements:

Not Applicable

Education:

Not Applicable

Relocation:

Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.

Export Control Requirement:

This is not an Export Control position.

Safety Sensitive:

This is not a Safety Sensitive Position.

Security Clearance:

This position does not require a Security Clearance.

Visa Sponsorship:

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Contingent Upon Award Program

This position is not contingent upon program award

Shift:

Shift 1 (United States of America)

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