Lead Design Systems Designer

Oakmoss Bank is a challenger bank building its first design system. We are growing our design team and looking for a Lead Design Systems Designer.

About the role

You will lead a small design systems team and set the direction for how the whole product is designed and built. This is a hybrid role: two or three days a week in London.

What you will do

• Set the roadmap for the design system and agree priorities with product and engineering leads
• Coach two designers and an engineer who work on the system part-time
• Measure adoption and the cost of inconsistency, and report on it each quarter
• Introduce a contribution model that scales beyond the core team

About you

• Experience leading or mentoring in a design systems or platform team
• A track record of getting a system adopted, not just built
• Comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders
• Hands-on in Figma and able to read front-end code

What we offer

• A salary of £85k to £100k, depending on experience
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Private health cover
• A home-office budget