Design Systems Lead (Staff Designer or Senior Design Manger)
Design Systems Lead (Staff Designer or Senior Design Manger)
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$ 151140 - 261140
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Job Description:
Rakuten International oversees 7 businesses with over 4000 employees globally. The brand is recognized for its leadership and innovation in ecommerce digital content advertising entertainment and communications bringing the joy of discovery and access to more than 1 billion members across the world. Our teams deliver on the companys mission to delight merchants and customers through innovation optimism and teamwork.
Rakuten Rewards is a leading ecommerce company that enhances the way people shop by offering Cash Back deals and rewards from more than 3500 merchants. Founded in 1999 Rakuten has grown to become the goto shopping destination for consumers having paid out nearly $2 billion in Cash Back to its 15 million members. The company also operates ShopStyle a leading fashion discovery destination and Cartera Commerce a top rewards platform for airlines and banks. For more information visit .
Job Summary:
Were looking for a Design Systems Lead to join our team of product designers researchers and UX writers building rewarding experiences our members and merchants love. This role will lead the next chapter of Radiant our design system and help us reimagine and evolve the foundations that power every touchpoint in our ecosystem.
Youll play a key role in scaling our visual language accessibility standards interaction patterns and design quality across platforms used by millions. Sitting at the intersection of product design engineering and brand youll define a clear inspiring vision for Radiant and partner crossfunctionally to bring it to life. This role reports to the VP of Product Design and will directly manage one midlevel Product Designer focused on Radiant.
Key Responsibilities:
Audit and evolve our existing system (tokens components Figma libraries documentation governance)
Bring clarity and refinement to foundational elements like color type motion and spacingand ensure accessibility is built in from the ground up
Define a clear vision for our design system in partnership with our Product Design Craft Studio and Brand teams
Partner with engineering to ensure strong designengineering parity and scalable code implementation
Help create tools documentation and contribution models that enable teams to move fast without sacrificing quality
Drive adoption by creating clear usable patterns and tools that meet real product needs
Support (and eventually grow) a small but mighty design systems team starting with one direct report
Qualifications:
Deep proficiency in Figma design tokens and working with designengineering workflows
Comfortable leading work across platforms (native app web browser extension)
A strong sense of visual and interaction design with a track record of raising the bar
Strong communicator who thrives in crossfunctional environments
Builder mindset: low ego fast iterating and always looking to unblock teams
Opinionated but collaborativeable to set a vision while inviting contribution
Experience mentoring or managing designers
Strong understanding of frontend development principles and constraintscomfortable pairing with engineers and making tradeoffs
Familiarity with multibrand or theming systems at scale
Comfort navigating legacy systems and complex stakeholder environments
Minimum Requirements:
8 years of professional design experience with significant experience in Design Systems.
Experience working in ecommerce marketplaces or consumerscale products
Bachelors or masters degree in design Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Industrial Design Computer Science or related field.
Five Principles for Success
Our worldwide practices describe specific behaviors that make Rakuten unique and united across the world. We expect Rakuten employees to model these 5 Shugi Principles of Success.
Always improve Always Advance Only be satisfied with complete success Kaizen
Passionately Professional Take an uncompromising approach to your work and be determined to be the best
Hypothesize Practice Validate Shikumika Use the Rakuten Cycle to succeed in unknown territory
Maximize Customer Satisfaction The greatest satisfaction for our teams is seeing their customers smile
Speed!! Speed!! Speed!! Always be conscious of time take charge set clear goals and engage your team
Rakuten provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. Rakuten considers applicants for employment without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetic information protected veteran status sexual orientation gender gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state provincial or local laws.
At the time of posting Rakuten expects the base compensation for this role to be within the range shown below. Individual compensation will vary based on jobrelated factors including the skills qualifications and experience of the successful candidate as well as business need and geographic location. The successful applicant for this role will be eligible for discretionary bonus health vision dental insurance 401k matching PTO Volunteer Time Off (VTO) and other employee benefits as the company implements.
USD $151140.00 $261140.00 annuallyRequired Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
