Salary
💰 £76,194 - £89,640 per year
About the role
- Build, configure and manage the design tooling & systems ecosystem for Cancara OS
- Enable designers and developers to deliver branded experiences across technologies and channels
- Maintain and optimise design platforms (e.g. Figma, Adobe), integrations and access controls
- Govern user access, licensing, version control and standards
- Implement and maintain design system automation (tokens, component libraries, style systems)
- Integrate tooling into engineering workflows to ensure seamless handoff and compatibility
- Support adoption via onboarding, documentation and guidance
- Identify opportunities to improve performance, reliability and efficiency across the tooling ecosystem
Requirements
- Demonstrable experience as a product owner leading multiple software development teams and owning team backlogs
- Experience in design tooling leadership: selecting, integrating and evolving design tools (Figma, Sketch, Adobe)
- Experience building and configuring automated design systems (tokens, component libraries, style systems)
- Experience integrating tooling into developer workflows and handoffs
- Agile delivery experience and ability to manage and coach teams using iterative approaches
- Ability to define scalable design system architectures and governance models
- Data-driven experimentation to improve tooling and system usability
- Strong cross-functional collaboration with designers, engineers and product owners
- Expertise in governance, accessibility, security policies and operational best practices
- Experience delivering onboarding, documentation and technical enablement to users