Senior Design System Lead

Boeing

Design System Lead at Boeing responsible for design system strategy and governance. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance product development lifecycle.

Posted 6/12/2026full-timeSeattle • Colorado, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $142,800 - $193,200 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AndroidAngulariOSJavaScriptReact

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Integrate AI tools and workflows into the design system lifecycle to automate asset creation, code generation, and documentation.
Oversee and scale the entire design system ecosystem, ensuring seamless integration across various platforms (Web, iOS, Android), sub-brands, and business units.
Define the vision, governance model, and long-term roadmap for the design system to support multi-platform growth.
Create and maintain clear usage guidelines, contribution rules, and component documentation to support consistent adoption of the design system.
Establish standard processes for proposing, creating, testing, versioning, approving exceptions, and deprecating system assets to ensure new components and patterns align with system standards.
Partner with Product Designers, Engineers, and Product Managers to align design assets, support adoption, and maintain design system standards across teams.
Manage design libraries in Figma and collaborate with engineering to maintain corresponding front-end code repositories.
Promote system adoption, run training workshops, write documentation, and support onboarding for new team members.
Define, track, and share design system success metrics, such as adoption rates and design/development velocity gains.
Brings genuine curiosity and enthusiasm for the craft by staying at the forefront of design systems thinking through conferences, community engagement, and self-driven learning, then translating those insights into shared knowledge that raises the bar for the whole team.

Requirements

What you’ll need

1+ years hands-on experience leveraging AI plugins, LLMs/ML, or prompt engineering to generate code tokens, automate Figma workflows, or draft system documentation
3+ years experience managing complex design system ecosystems, including handling cross-platform synchronization, multi-brand themes, and token management systems (e.g., Tokens Studio, Figma Variables)
3+ years in Product Design, UI Engineering, or Design Operations
3+ years expertise in Figma including variables, auto-layout, component properties, strong naming conventions, file structure, version control practices, and library management.
3+ years of front-end code and technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, token architecture, and frameworks like Angular, React and SwiftUI)

Benefits

Comp & perks

health insurance
flexible spending accounts
health savings accounts
retirement savings plans
life and disability insurance programs
paid and unpaid time away from work

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI toolscode generationdocumentationdesign system managementFigmaHTMLCSSJavaScriptAngularReact

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationtrainingcuriosityenthusiasm