Mindset
At Thiga, we believe that a Design System is not just a collection of components or rules: it is a product in its own right. A product designed to evolve, meet the needs of teams, and support the growth of the company.
Creating and maintaining a Design System requires vision, a clear strategy, and solid governance. It involves driving its adoption, anticipating its large-scale usage, and ensuring it addresses both Design and Tech challenges. It is a powerful lever for maturing organizations, structuring collaboration between teams, and fostering a strong product culture.
Today, a well-structured Design System is also the sine qua non for fully leveraging AI in design and prototyping workflows. Consistent tokens, documented components, rigorous nomenclature – all foundations that allow for the reliable and scalable exploitation of generative AI tools (Figma Make, Lovable, v0...). The Design System Manager of tomorrow is the one who anticipates these uses and structures their system accordingly.
The Design System Managers we are looking for envision their system as a living, maximally automated product, designed to connect Design and Engineering in a frictionless workflow.
How we work together 🤝 Establish adoption and continuous improvement rituals: office hours, feedback sessions, contribution guidelines so that the DS is co-created and adopted by all teams. Continuously align Design and Engineering: organize regular syncs with dev teams to ensure consistency between Figma components and their code implementation. The DS doesn't live in Figma alone; it lives in production. Drive multi-team strategic alignment: ensure Product, Tech, Design, and Business share the same vision and roadmap for the DS, integrated at the same level as other products. Respond to the needs of users and contributors: centralize requests, prioritize evolutions, and facilitate fluid contribution from designers, developers, and PMs. Unite around a shared DS culture: make the DS a living, co-created product by fostering transparent exchanges and onboarding teams into its long-term vision. How we get work done 🚀 Define and manage the DS roadmap: a roadmap aligned with product and business priorities, with measurable short-term and long-term objectives. Automate DS workflows as much as possible: token pipelines, real-time design-to-code synchronization, documentation generation scripts, minimize manual tasks and desynchronization risks. Structure the DS for AI and rapid prototyping: design a component and token architecture that makes the DS usable by generative AI tools (Figma Make, Cursor, v0, Lovable...). This involves: strict nomenclature, well-defined variants, documented props, and component logic that aligns with code patterns. Ensure design-code consistency: implement automated verification tools to ensure that what is designed is what is developed without manual verification. Promote best practices at scale: training, workshops, living documentation so that the DS is used fluidly and scalably by all teams. Measure impact and iterate: adoption KPIs, quality indicators, qualitative feedback to assess the DS's impact and adjust priorities. How our work creates impact 🎯 Accelerate product delivery: ready-to-use components, automated pipelines, and AI prompts calibrated on the DS. Teams design and develop faster, with less friction. Make AI prototyping reliable and scalable: a well-structured DS becomes the common language between designers and AI tools; generated prototypes are consistent with production, not disposable. Ensure design quality and consistency at scale: homogeneous user experience, reinforced brand identity, reduced design and technical debt. Reduce debt and simplify maintenance: fewer duplicates, fewer unnecessary variants, more accessible and performant code. Mature the organization in design: structured Design × Tech collaboration culture, reinforced strategic design vision, living documentation as a skill-building lever. Skills 💼 System vision and DS strategy: You know how to define a DS strategy and break it down into a concrete roadmap, aligned with product, tech, and business priorities. You demonstrate leadership to champion this vision and onboard teams. Design-Engineering Alignment: You have a solid understanding of front-end challenges (tokens, design-to-code, component systems) and you communicate as an equal with developers, not just to convince them, but to co-create the right solutions. Automation and DS Tooling: You master token pipelines, documentation tools (Storybook, Zeroheight), and you have an appetite for automating DS workflows. AI and Advanced Prototyping: You understand how a structured DS enables leveraging generative AI tools for design and prototyping. You anticipate these uses in DS architecture decisions. Internal Product Management: You manage the DS like a true product: user needs, prioritization, KPIs, continuous iteration. Communication and Influence: You know how to formulate synthetic and strategic deliverables (vision, roadmap, governance models, dashboards) to align diverse stakeholders – operational teams, product management, stakeholders. Tools: Figma (Variables, Dev Mode, Make), Storybook, Zeroheight, Notion, Jira/Linear, Style Dictionary, and good command of no-code/low-code environments and AI prototyping tools. Fluent English: written and spoken. Qualities 🌟 You think in systems: you understand systemic logic and know how to structure a coherent, extensible, and AI-exploitable DS. You automate by reflex: you seek to reduce manual tasks and build robust workflows that maintain themselves. You are the bridge between Design and Tech: you speak both languages and know how to create the conditions for lasting alignment between teams. You champion a vision: you are capable of convincing, aligning, and onboarding designers as well as engineers, operational staff as well as leaders. You manage your DS like a product: internal user needs, KPIs, prioritized roadmap – you treat the DS with the same rigor as a customer product. You stay curious and keep up-to-date: on tools, practices, and the rapid evolution of Design Systems and AI uses in design. Experience 📇 You have at least 5 years of experience in Product Design, Design System Management, or a similar role, with a confirmed or senior trajectory. You have already created or significantly structured a Design System from scratch or at scale, not just contributed to one. You have implemented token pipelines, automation processes, and design-to-code integrations. You have experimented with generative AI tools, in a design or DS context (Figma Make, Cursor, v0, Lovable, or equivalent). You have worked in both scale-ups and large corporations, giving you a good understanding of organizational models and levers for evolving design maturity. You have worked with agile methodologies and know how to integrate the DS into these delivery processes. What we offer 🎊
Onboarding to meet your colleagues. Learning opportunities with a minimum of 5 days of training per year, weekly sharing sessions, and content to develop your skills. Mentoring on your mission by a more experienced peer. Comfort with two days of remote work per week (depending on your client), complemented by access to a catalog of equipment, as well as a Macbook Air or PC of your choice. Fun with Thigapéros, Team building events, and a seminar (while being mindful of our carbon footprint). And many other benefits like a Swile card, reimbursement of your transport pass at 50%/sustainable mobility package, etc. The process steps 🎢 A preliminary phone interview with a member of the Recruitment team. Evaluation of your portfolio by our Designers. A meeting with a Principal, a Tribe Manager, or a Partner to ensure we share the same values and ambitions. A more operational interview with one or two senior members of our team to assess your understanding of the Design System Manager role, your problem-solving skills related to Design Systems, your convictions, your expectations, etc. A final meeting to finalize the process, agree on a common ambition, objectives, and scope of intervention 🤝 Thiga welcomes all competent and passionate individuals and is committed to cultural diversity, gender equality, and the employment of disabled workers—on the contrary, we consider diversity a great asset!