Design Systems Lead (COMET)

We are looking for a Design Systems Lead for our client, one of the world's largest natural resource companies. The role will focus on establishing and evolving a unified design system across an enterprise-grade Commodity Trading & Risk Management (CTRM) platform built on multiple micro-frontends.

The platform (COMET) requires a single accountable expert to define, govern, and scale a consistent UI layer across teams. The successful candidate will ensure that design and implementation remain fully aligned by owning the end-to-end design system lifecycle, from Figma design standards to front-end component implementation.

This is a senior, hands-on individual contributor role with no direct reports, requiring strong expertise in both UX systems design and front-end engineering practices. The individual will act as the key authority for UI consistency, reuse, and design governance across multiple development teams.

Responsibilities

Own and evolve the enterprise design system including components, patterns, and design tokens

Define and manage versioning, documentation standards, contribution model, and deprecation lifecycle for UI assets

Improve and maintain the design token pipeline and ensure seamless design-to-code synchronization

Expand and govern Storybook as the canonical component library for the platform

Implement and enforce visual regression testing for UI consistency across releases

Define and enforce UI Definition of Done, ensuring reuse of existing components and tokens

Run intake, triage, and governance process ensuring teams prioritize reuse over duplication

Enforce design system compliance through code reviews, linting rules, and onboarding standards

Monitor, analyze, and report adoption metrics and UI drift to UX/UI Lead and Front-End Lead

Collaborate closely with design, engineering, and platform teams to ensure alignment between UX vision and implementation

Skills

Must have

Proven experience building and/or operating an enterprise-scale design system

Strong hands-on experience with Figma in a design system context

Deep knowledge of design tokens, token architecture, and design-to-code pipelines

Practical experience with Storybook and component library governance

Experience implementing or working with visual regression testing frameworks

Strong expertise in CSS/SCSS and scalable UI architecture patterns

Solid understanding of modern front-end engineering practices (micro-frontends is a plus)

Experience working in large-scale, multi-team enterprise environments

Ability to operate as a senior individual contributor with strong ownership mindset

Strong communication skills and ability to drive adoption across engineering teams

English: C1 Advanced

Nice to have

Experience in data-dense enterprise applications (e.g., trading, finance, analytics platforms)

Hands-on engineering background in front-end development

Exposure to Angular-based enterprise applications

Experience working in or around micro-frontend architectures

Knowledge or exposure to backend systems in enterprise environments

Experience with AI-assisted development workflows or "agentic AI" tooling for engineering productivity

Other

Languages

English: C1 Advanced

Seniority

Senior