PayPal UX Product Design Systems Lead Venmo 

United States, California, San Jose 

975460098

As a Product Design Lead for the Venmoteam, you will leadefforts to define and scale our design system. You will work closely with product and engineering partnersour design system and ensure consistency, scalability, and usability across all our digital productsWhile your primary focus will be on design systems,hands-on workdesign leadershipand by, you willbuild and deliver the best possible experiences.

a deep understanding of design patterns to build trust and security within our financial products. They will cultivate a visually sophisticated brand experience that resonates with our target audience, all while influencing stakeholders to champion their design vision.

Responsibilities

Own and evolve the design system: Lead the design, documentation, and maintenance of our design system (components, patterns, tokens, guidelines) to ensure visual and functional consistency.

Design leadership: Mentor product designers,

Project Management:Contributes to the planning and estimating work andin broader work stream coordination and expectation setting.

• Governance and scalability: Define governance models forcomponentusage and contributions, ensuring quality and consistency at scale.
  

• Accessibility & inclusivity: Champion inclusive design and accessibility best practices within the system and across product experiences.
  

• Tooling & infrastructure: Oversee and improve design tooling, version control, documentation platforms, and workflow integrations.
  

• Advocacy & adoption: Promote awareness and adoption of the design system internally through training, documentation, and support.
  

• Hands-on design:Creates high-quality deliverables and executes based on product design goals and priorities without prescriptive guidance or direction, managing their work to a more extensive schedule.

Requirements

• years experience
  

• Bachelors orMasterDegree in the study of design including one of thefollowing;Design, Information Architecture, HumanFactorsor equivalent project/portfolio experience.
  

• expertisein Figma (or similar tools),componentlibraries, and design-to-code workflows.

• Thorough understanding of product designmethodologyand lifecycle across significant channels and platforms.
  

• Customer-focused, with experience using design research methods to uncover customer insights.
  

• operateswithin an iterative design team, managing product design responsibilities against defined milestones andplanwith little day-to-day oversight.
  

• Thorough knowledge of essential channels and platforms, with experience in mobile, dedicated, and native solution design.
  

• Experience with resources suchas;pattern library, repositories, and internal communication tools.

Nice to Have

in branding, visual systems,