Design Systems Lead at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

• Design @ Old Mutual is currently going through a scaling and growth phase in order to more substantially contribute to our Vision of being “Our Customers’ 1st Choice” by championing “Mutually Positive futures”.
• The Design team currently consists of Service Designers, UX Designers and UI Designers collaborating closely with UX Writers. New to this multidisciplinary team, are Qualitative and Quantitative researchers, Design System Lead as well as the Design Operations Manager.
• As a Design System Lead, your goal is to enable the Design Practice to work as efficiently as possible through reusable component libraries and facilitate a Design - Front-end Dev relationship that seeks to eliminate handovers and cultivate close collaboration.

As the Design System Lead, you will lead the Design Team's efforts in:

• Componentisation of App and Web UI components
• Publishing components and documentation onto Design System Website
• Onboarding Designers to fully orient them on our reuse framework
• Evangelising and supporting the adoption of Design System across the group
• Governing the use and contribution to the shared libraries
• Establishing and Leading a Design system team

Collaborate with:

• Design Chapter Leads & Designers
• Front-end developers and Tech leads
• UX Writers
• Design Operations Manager

Education

• Bachelor of Science (BSc)

Closing Date

31 March 2023