Design Manager Design System

Are you passionate about design systems and eager to drive both efficiency and brand excellence at scale As our Design System Design Manager you will work with the existing Product Manager and Engineering Manager to bring the design perspective and together lead the Design System team forward strategically and operationally across H&Ms global digital product ecosystem including web mobile apps and internal tools.  

Youll lead a team of designers foster crossfunctional alignment and play a key role in shaping consistent accessible and highquality digital experiences across all customer touchpoints. 

You will be part of the Digital Experience Design team within the Commercial Development & Growth function working closely with product managers engineers brand and creative teams and business stakeholders. 

Your main responsibilities include but are not limited to: 

• The Design Manager will work with the existing Product Manager and Engineering Manager roles to bring the design perspective and together lead the Design System team forward.
• Maintain and evolve the design system ensuring it meets scalability efficiency and brand alignment requirements together with team leadership.
• Define and implement governance models contribution processes and adoption guidelines to manage system integrity together with team leadership. 
• Lead mentor and grow a team of designers fostering craft excellence and team development. 
• Partner with brand and creative development teams to embed visual identity motion and interaction principles into the system. 
• Collaborate with Digital Experience Design Directors to align system development with governance operations and longterm scalability strategies. 
• Work with Digital Experience Design Leads to ensure UI/UX quality accessibility and consistent interaction patterns. 
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure seamless implementation and maintenance of system components. 
• Contribute to and maintain robust documentation component libraries and design tokens to support effective usage and scalability. 
• Develop and provide onboarding training and advocacy initiatives to promote system adoption across teams. 
• Establish and manage versioning release planning and system lifecycle processes to ensure sustainable evolution. 
• Gather analyze and act on feedback from design product and engineering teams to continuously improve the system. 
• Ensure accessibility and inclusive design principles (e.g. WCAG ARIA) are embedded in all system components. 
• Define and track key metrics to measure the systems performance adoption and impact on design consistency and delivery efficiency. 
• Participate in crossfunctional working groups to align priorities and foster strong collaboration across disciplines. 
• Represent the design system team in design leadership discussions advocating for scalable and strategic design solutions.
• Remain close to by guiding component development and troubleshooting systemrelated issues alongside your team.

Qualifications :

To succeed in this role you bring a blend of technical expertise design thinking and people leadership. You thrive at the intersection of systems creativity and collaboration ensuring our design system is not only functional but inspiring scalable and effective. 

We believe you have: 

• Extensive experience in UI/UX design and design systems within digital product organizations. 
• Deep knowledge of design system frameworks componentbased design and frontend principles. 
• Strong proficiency in tools like Figma Sketch Storybook and frontend frameworks such as React or Vue. 
• Proven leadership experience with mentoring coaching and developing highperforming teams. 
• Handson experience building scaling and managing design systems in crossfunctional environments. 
• Strong collaboration experience with product managers engineers brand and creative development teams. 
• Expertise in governance structured processes and system contribution management. 
• Indepth knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG ARIA) and inclusive design practices. 
• Excellent documentation facilitation and communication skills. 
• A track record of driving design system adoption ownership and culture change across teams. 
• Experience using qualitative and quantitative data to guide decisionmaking and improve system impact. 

Additional Information :

Are you ready to lead and make a meaningful impact Please upload your CV in English as soon as possible but no later thanApril 27. Interviews will take place continuously so dont waitsubmit your application today if youre interested! Kindly note that due to GDPR regulations we can only accept applications submitted through our career page. 

This is a fulltime permanent position based at Head Office in Stockholm Sweden. You will report to Karolina Boremalm Head of Digital Experience Design. For questions about the role please contact Zoran Pesic at

WHO WE ARE

H&M is a fashion brand that offers the latest styles and inspiration from fashion pieces and unique designer collaborations to affordable wardrobe essentials. Our business idea is fashion & quality at the best price in a sustainable way.  Learn more about H&M here.

WHY YOULL LOVE WORKING HERE

Benefits
We offer all our employees at H&M Group attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a staff discount card usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included) COS Weekday Monki H&M HOME & Other Stories ARKET Afound. In addition to our staff discount all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here.

In addition to our global benefits all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment type and countries.

Inclusion & Diversity
H&M is a part of H&M Group. At H&M Group were determined to create and maintain inclusive diverse and equitable workplaces throughout our organisation. Our teams should consist of a variety of people that share and combine their knowledge experience and ideas. Having a diverse workforce leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges on what we perceive possible and on how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world. Hence all diversity dimensions are taken into consideration in our recruitment process.  

We are committed to a recruitment process that is fair equitable and based on competency. We therefore kindly ask you to not attach a cover letter in your application.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime