Director, Global Design System

Join our Digital Transformation team!

We are building a global digital ecosystem that connects millions of customers across regions and business lines.

As the Director Global Design System you will play a pivotal role in crafting the foundation of this ecosystem ensuring that Manulifes digital experiences are efficient scalable and human-centered.

If youre ready to take on a global leadership challenge driving the evolution of a design system at enterprise scale wed love to hear from you!

Position Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for establishing and maintaining frameworks that ensure the successful adoption and evolution of our system. You will work closely with design engineering and product teams across jurisdictions to ensure that the system meets diverse business and customer needs while maintaining compliance with regional and local regulations.

Stakeholder Engagement & Advocacy:

• Lead a cross-functional coalition of designers engineers product managers and business leaders via office hours and workshops to drive partnerships and adoption of the standards and guidelines.

• Manage community feedback and contribution requests as you partner with regional teams to understand their unique constraints and integrate their needs into the system.

• Secure consensus from executives and practitioners alike navigating organizational complexity and influencing decision-making at all levels.

Process Optimization & Compliance:

• Ensure the system processes are optimized for efficiency and compliance with cross cultural language and regulatory challenges.

• Develop and analyze critical metrics that measure effectiveness customer satisfaction and business impact.

Education & Enablement:

• Train onboard and enable teams to fully harness the system ensuring broad and sustained adoption.

• Advocate for design and build excellence accessibility and efficiency while ensuring the system remains flexible for innovation.

• Publish release notes newsletters adoption/usage guides to the community.

Framework Development & Governance:

• Contribute to the definition of design system governance frameworks with support from Marketing and IT partners to ensure the long-term sustainability adoption and alignment to the guidelines of the design system.

• Establish standards documentation and workflows to integrate seamlessly with design and development processes.

Required Qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in digital product management UX leadership or design system strategy within a global enterprise or multi-jurisdictional organization.

• Proven success in implementing frameworks for global or common design systems at scale.

• Strong expertise in stakeholder management influence and communication skillsable to drive alignment across diverse teams and geographies.

• Experience working in complex matrixed organizations with multiple business units and partners.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with enterprise design tools and frameworks (Figma Storybook React Angular JIRA Confluence etc.)

• IT lifecycle management.

When you join our team:

Well empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

Well recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.

As part of our global team well support you in shaping the future you want to see.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us visit is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location please contact for the salary range for your location. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge skills qualifications experience and education/training. Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.

Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits including health dental mental health vision short- and long-term disability life and AD&D insurance coverage adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays vacation personal and sick days and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S. please contact for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.