Senior Product Design Manager Design Systems
Senior Product Design Manager Design Systems
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Job Description
The team
The Design Systems team at SoFi plays a critical role in shaping cohesive scalable and delightful product experiences across our financial ecosystem. Formed only about 1.5 years ago this small but mighty team is dedicated to building and maintaining Pacificour design system consisting of foundational elements such as components guidelines patterns and tooling. Pacific empowers product teams to design and develop efficiently. Our mission is to accelerate innovation and foster collaboration through a robust intuitive design system that amplifies quality creativity and speed.
The role
As the Senior Manager of Product Design for Design Systems youll define and lead the vision strategy and of Pacific. Your role is crucial in driving consistency scalability and design excellence throughout SoFis growing product portfolio. Youll collaborate closely with crossfunctional leaders across Product Engineering Marketing and Operations to ensure Pacific meets the evolving needs of our products and users. This role also requires handson individual contributor work actively designing and directly contributing to Pacific across both mobile and web app platforms. As a manager youll cultivate and mentor a talented design systems team champion design system adoption and actively shape the future of product design at SoFi.
SoFi has achieved significant growth with ambitious plans ahead. To continue this trajectory we need exceptional talentand that starts with you.
Responsibilities:
- Define and drive the strategy vision and of SoFis design system Pacific including components tooling guidelines and governance.
- Collaborate closely with product engineering and research leaders to ensure Pacific addresses current and future business needs including integration of advanced capabilities such as AI and LLM.
- Perform handson design and actively contribute individual components patterns and improvements to Pacific across web and mobile platforms.
- Foster design system adoption across all product areas by championing its value providing resources training and advocacy.
- Ensure highquality consistent and accessible product experiences by setting and enforcing design standards and best practices.
- Help build a worldclass app experience by evolving a design system that fosters innovation and raises the quality bar.
- Mentor coach and inspire your team of designers helping them grow professionally and contribute effectively.
- Serve as a thought leader advocating for design system excellence and influencing strategic decisionmaking across the company.
- Continuously evolve and refine Pacific through feedback analytics user research and best practices.
Qualification and experience
- 10 years of professional experience working with design systems or successfully shipping consumerfacing products and features or a combination of both.
- 3 years leading and managing highperforming design teams with a proven track record of growing talent.
- Deep expertise in designing scaling and maintaining complex modern design systems across responsive web iOS and Android platforms.
- Background or experience in visual design best practicesyou understand what makes great design and know how to achieve it.
- An impeccable eye for detailyou know the little things matter.
- Excellent communication skills capable of articulating and advocating design system strategies to stakeholders across Product Engineering Marketing and executive leadership.
- Proficiency with design tools such as Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and collaboration tools (Jira Confluence).
- Demonstrated ability to leverage data analytics user research and testing to inform and validate design decisions.
- A portfolio (URL or PDF) demonstrating expertise in product design and design systems.
Even Better
- Experience working on personal finance products
- Experience shipping high quality & beloved software applications
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
