Product Design Manager - Design System, (100% remote-friendly within Poland)

As a Design System Manager, you will play a pivotal role in managing and evolving Watson, our design system, to deliver consistent, scalable, and accessible design solutions across our product ecosystem. This is a unique opportunity to define the future of our design system, ensuring it empowers teams to build outstanding, inclusive, and user-centered experiences efficiently.

In this role, you will lead a team of two talented designers, driving their professional growth and aligning their work with the vision and standards of Watson. You’ll also remain hands-on—contributing directly in Figma, owning critical system components, and setting the standard for excellence in design systems and accessibility practices.

This position is ideal for someone passionate about systems thinking, accessibility, and fostering collaboration across design, engineering, and product teams.

We are looking for a Design System Manager to:

• Own and evolve Watson, ensuring it is scalable, accessible, and flexible for all product teams. You’ll continuously adapt the system to address emerging needs while maintaining its quality and integrity.
• Lead and manage a team of two designers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to enable their growth and ensure high-quality outputs. One of them you will actually have to hire =)
• Oversee the maintenance and growth of Watson’s component libraries, documentation, and design tokens to ensure consistency across products and platforms.
• Ensure accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG compliance) are embedded into every aspect of the design system, championing inclusive design practices and fostering a culture of accessibility.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product Managers, Engineers, and other stakeholders) to align the design system with business goals, technical capabilities, and accessibility requirements.
• Facilitate adoption and education by creating resources, hosting workshops, and providing training to improve understanding, usage, and best practices across the organization.
• Drive design system innovation, exploring new tools, techniques, and processes to improve Watson’s efficiency, accessibility, and effectiveness.
• Maintain and optimize the Figma structure and workflows, ensuring components and libraries are intuitive, efficient, and accessible for all design teams.
• Create and monitor metrics and feedback loops to measure the effectiveness of the design system, track improvements, and identify opportunities for continuous enhancement.

What you should have:

• A portfolio showcasing design systems you have created or significantly contributed to.
• Proven experience in leading, mentoring, and managing a small team of designers, fostering collaboration and professional growth.
• Deep expertise with Figma, component libraries, and other design system management tools.
• A strategic mindset focused on design scalability, operational efficiency, and continuous improvement.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and bridging the gap between design, product, and engineering.
• Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to prioritize and execute multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• A solid understanding of systems thinking, user-centered design principles, and accessibility standards.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate design decisions and operational strategies to stakeholders.
• Familiarity with data-informed decision-making, including metrics to measure the effectiveness of design operations and systems.
• 6+ years of experience in interaction design. Bonus: Experience in front-end development.

Let’s talk money

• A salary adequate to your experience and skills.The range is broad so that we can accommodate our roles for all levels of experience, but we will show you the career ladder to explain where we see your skills and impact within the company". Your salary will be, now and always, 100% transparent to you;

• For B2B contract: between 17.000 and 28.500 PLN net monthly or company cost equivalent on employment contract

• Share options plan after 6 months of working with us.

True flexibility and work-life balance

• Remote or hybrid work model with or hub in Warsaw;

• Flexible working hours (fully flexible, as in most cases you only have to be on a couple of meetings weekly);

• 20/26 days of paid time off (depending on your contract);

• Additional paid day off on your birthday or work anniversary (you choose what you want to celebrate).

Health comes first 

• Private healthcare plan with Signal Iduna for you and subsidized for your family. 

• Multisport card co-financing for you to have access to sports facilities across Poland. 

• Access to iFeel, a technological platform for mental wellness offering online psychological support and counseling. 

Keep growing with us

• Free English classes.

We promote and embrace equal opportunities in our hiring process, and also every day at work. When you apply for our roles you receive equal treatment regardless of age, disabilities, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or parental status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or any other dimension of human difference.  If you require additional support in your recruitment process, we kindly encourage you to let us know. Behind those words you’re reading, there’s a person (hi!) who already helped a candidate by adapting the interviews, and now we’re lucky to have this person with us. So, even if you’ve never asked for it before, may this serve as a sign that, now, you can do so. We can only truly be equal if we adapt to each other.

“We believe all humans, in all their beautiful diversity, should have equal rights, dignity and respect. Period.” Mariusz Gralewski,  CEO