Design System Design Manager (UI/UX Design)

TL;DR

Design System Design Manager (UI/UX Design): Leading the creation of world-class customer experiences and delivering transformative solutions across hirify.global.com and the My hirify.global app via the design system with an accent on scalability, governance, and alignment with product strategy and business goals. Focus on system architecture, tokenisation, documentation quality, and design-engineering parity, while using AI tools and engaging with Design Ops to improve efficiency.

Location: Hybrid in either our Osterley or Leeds office.

Company

hirify.global is Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand with 24 million customers in 6 countries.

What you will do

• Lead a small team of product designers to deliver world-class, innovative, and intuitive evidence-based user experiences across web and native platforms.
• Own the hirify.global design system strategic direction, ensuring scalability, governance, and alignment with product strategy and business goals.
• Partner with engineering, product, research, and analytics to ensure system usability, performance, and brand consistency across platforms.
• Be responsible for system architecture, tokenisation, documentation quality, and design-engineering parity, while using AI tools and engaging with Design Ops to improve efficiency.
• Champion inclusive design and embed WCAG 2.2 accessibility standards across all components, patterns, and motion principles.
• Shape the end-to-end experience vision, define CX KPIs, and link design system adoption to measurable business outcomes.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience delivering world-class, large-scale digital products and design systems across responsive web and native applications.
• Expert-level skills with component libraries, token structures, and conditional prototyping for scalable systems.
• Mastery in accessibility to create inclusive experiences, using user research methods to understand customer problems and behaviours, and analytics tools (Usertesting, Adobe Analytics) to interpret user behaviour and analyse performance
• Proven experience partnering with developers on component implementation, governance pipelines, and code alignment.
• Strong storytelling, stakeholder influence, and resilience in fast-paced, evolving environments.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global Q, for the TV you love all in one place
• The magic of hirify.global Glass at an exclusive rate
• A generous pension package
• Private healthcare
• Discounted mobile and broadband
• A wide range of hirify.global VIP rewards and experiences