Bumble Inc.

Director, Design Systems

Bumble Inc.

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California, New York

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Salary

💰 $240,000 - $257,500 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Own the Design Systems Vision: Define and lead the long-term roadmap for Bumble’s design system across mobile and web, ensuring it supports brand expression, UX consistency, and product velocity.
  • Lead and Grow the Team: Manage and mentor a team of talented systems designers, fostering a culture of rigor, collaboration, and innovation.
  • Drive Adoption and Alignment: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of the design system into workflows, tools, and codebases.
  • Ensure Craft and Consistency: Maintain a high bar for design quality, accessibility, and engineering partnership across every component, token, and documentation artifact.
  • Build Bridges Across Teams: Partner with Brand, Product Design, Engineering, and Research to ensure the system meets evolving product and user needs while remaining flexible and scalable.
  • Enable Product Velocity: Reduce duplication and fragmentation by delivering a stable, well-documented system that helps teams move faster and smarter.
  • Champion Inclusivity: Bake accessibility and inclusive design principles into every layer of the system — from color and typography to motion and interaction patterns.
  • Amplify Product Teams: Enable designers and engineers to spend less time reinventing and more time innovating through a well-maintained system.
  • Protect Brand Integrity: Ensure brand consistency and quality across touchpoints as products scale and localize globally.
  • Drive Inclusive Experiences: Embed accessibility into the system’s DNA so every user experiences Bumble as welcoming and empowering.
  • Accelerate Time to Market: Deliver systematized components and interactions to allow teams to deliver polished features faster, with less risk and greater alignment.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in product design, with 4+ years focused on systems or platform design leadership.
  • Proven success leading large-scale, multi-platform design systems in consumer tech environments.
  • Deep understanding of systems architecture, component libraries, accessibility standards, and design tooling (especially Figma and design tokens).
  • Experience partnering closely with engineers, including familiarity with frontend frameworks and system governance models.
  • Strong mentorship and team development skills; you’ve grown high-performing design systems teams and built inclusive team cultures.
  • Strategic thinker and systems-oriented problem solver who can balance near-term needs with long-term scalability.
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills — able to advocate for design and build alignment across diverse stakeholders.
  • Passionate about Bumble’s mission and committed to building safe, inclusive, and joyful experiences at scale.
  • Bonus Points: Experience contributing to open-source design systems or cross-functional tooling.
  • Bonus Points: Background in accessibility-first or internationalized product environments.
  • Bonus Points: Familiarity with analytics, usage tracking, or measuring system adoption.