Product Design Manager, Design Systems
Lead Lyft's Design Systems team, owning strategy, roadmap, and AI transformation of the Lyft Product Language (LPL) across product, marketing, and brand. Manage designers and partner with engineering to ship scalable, accessible design systems.
About the job
Responsibilities
Strategy & Vision
- Set the strategy and roadmap for Lyft Product Language (LPL) across product, marketing, and brand surfaces
- Lead the AI transformation of the system: integrate AI into LPL tooling, adoption workflows, and the day-to-day designer experience
- Represent Design Systems in reviews and other senior leadership forums
People & Craft
- Manage and develop a team of design systems designers and illustrators working across iOS, Android, web, and brand
- Hold the quality bar for system-wide design: cross-platform coherence, accessibility (WCAG), road safety, localization, and brand consistency
- Coach the team on making educated tradeoffs between flexibility, coherency, usability, and efficiency
Execution & Partnership
- Partner closely with the Design Systems DPM and engineering managers to maintain system health, sequence work, and unblock teams
- Own the LPL component contribution and review process end-to-end, from intake through release
- Communicate system decisions, adoption expectations, and quality standards upward and across product, engineering, and marketing
Requirements
- 7+ years in product or brand design, including 2+ years managing designers
- Direct experience leading a design system at scale: components, patterns, guidelines, and shipped-to-code workflows
- Fluency across mobile and web platforms, with a working understanding of how systems are consumed by engineers
- Experience managing a design systems team
- Strong track record of partnership with engineering on architecture, releases, and quality
- Experience setting and defending craft standards across cross-functional stakeholders
- Excellent written communication; comfortable operating in an async-heavy environment with documented decisions
- Comfortable driving disagree-and-commit decisions and making tradeoffs in ambiguity
Nice-to-Haves
- Familiarity with AI-assisted design tooling (Figma MCP, generative workflows, agentic prototyping)
Benefits
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
- Mental health benefits
- Family building benefits
- Child care and pet benefits
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Discretionary paid time off (salaried team members); 15 days paid time off (hourly team members); 12 observed holidays
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave (biological, adoptive, and foster parents eligible)
- Subsidized commuter benefits
- Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership
Skills
Figma, Design Systems, iOS, Android, Web Design, Accessibility, Wcag, Ai-Assisted Design Tools, Component Libraries, Cross-Platform Design, Brand Design
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