Lead Product Design (mfd)

You will join Deezers Product & Tech organisation of 200 people including a design team of 11 designers. As Design System Manager you will own evolve and champion Tempo Deezers design system.

. This is a role for someone who wants to do both build and run working on the structural choices that shape the system while actively driving its adoption across the organisation.
 

What you will do:

Phase 1 Clean the system

• Bring Figma libraries to a stable well-structured fully documented state

• Support update or establish (if need be) manual processes: contribution flow deprecation icon addition release notes and support

• Define and track health metrics for adoption and system coverage

• Lay the governance foundations: office hours onboarding DS champions across teams

• Re-align the design team around shared conventions and best practices to restore consistency across workstreams

Phase 2 Scale the system

• Connect Tempo to Brand CRM and Marketing ensuring coherence beyond the product surface

• Set up onboarding and ongoing education for contributors (training office hours playground files)

• Automate processes by leveraging the Figma API: release notes doc sync parity checks

• Build a Content System for copy and tone-of-voice patterns

• Enable AI-assisted prototyping using clean Tempo components

• Explore tools like Dust AI and Code Connect to reduce manual overhead and enable fast vibe-coding workflows on a public code-connected DS repo

Qualifications :

Hard Skills

• 8 years in design systems product design or design engineering

• Deep Figma expertise variables auto-layout component architecture library management Code Connect

• Experience writing clear structured component documentation

• Familiarity with Figma API webhooks or automation scripting

• Ability to understand technical aspects (design tokens Compose/Swift/React)

• Experience with AI prototyping or LLM-assisted design workflows is a strong plus

Soft Skills

• Strategic thinker: you can establish a vision for the design system translate it into a short and mid-term roadmap and get stakeholders to buy into it

• Strong cross-functional communicator fluent in both design and engineering conversations

• Autonomous and ownership-oriented: you drive subjects without waiting to be told what to do

• Clear and proactive communicator: you bring structure and clarity to ambiguous topics share regular updates and know how to get stakeholders aligned and bought in

• Rigorous and structured you build processes that scale not just components

• Pedagogue: you write docs people actually read and you bring teams along with you

• Comfortable operating without direct reports while having influence

Sharing a portfolio or case studies that could demonstrate your impact is mandatory to apply.

At Deezer diversity drives innovation. Whatever makes you uniquely you your experiences your way of thinking your journey might be exactly what we need.
If this role speaks to you and aligns with your interests and capabilities even if you dont meet 100% of the qualifications listed please give it a try and tell us more! #BeYou

Additional Information :

At Deezer you can be your true self as we believe that #everyvoicematters. We strive to build an inclusive culture and foster a diverse environment. Because we care and want to ensure each employee feels welcome and safe at work we continuously focus on fighting biases and helping diverse teams work well together through multiple learning opportunities e-learnings and workshops right from the onboarding :

• Regular Diversity & Inclusion internal and external talks

• Dedicated employee work streams on Gender equity Ethnicity & Culture Disability and LGBTQ

• Multiple e-learnings and mandatory training sessions for all managers

• English and French courses for all so that everyone can connect and feel included

Beyond benefits like transportation we offer you extra perks like:

• A Deezer premium family account for free

• Access to gym classes

• Join over 70 Deezer Communities to connect beyond your day-to-day work share passions learn from each other and #Belong

• Deezer parties several times a year and drinks every thursday

• Allowance for sports travelling and culture

• Meal vouchers

• Mental health and well-being support from  

• Great offices always located in dynamic and attractive districts whether in Paris London or Sao Paulo!

• Hybrid remote work policy

If you want to learn more about life and culture at Deezer please visit our Welcome to the Jungle page here!

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time