Director, Design System & Foundations

• Strategy & Roadmap Ownership: Define and champion the long-term strategic vision and prioritized roadmap for the Design System, integrating mobile-first design principles and future-forward design strategy into all major initiatives.
• Experience Standards & Governance: Define and govern the core standards for the Constant Contact product experience, ensuring alignment across UX, visual design, branding, and content strategy with a mobile-first approach.
• People & Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and grow the dedicated team responsible for system components and foundations, with a specific focus on Visual Designers, UX Designers, and Content Strategists.
• Quality & Accessibility: Own the quality of system output, enforcing best practices, ensuring all components adhere to WCAG AA accessibility standards, and driving visual and technical consistency across all platforms.

This role creates positive change by empowering millions of small businesses to grow their brand and succeed through powerful digital marketing tools, and by enabling thousands of developers and designers to build products faster and more consistently through a cohesive, intuitive, and accessible design system.

• Experience & Leadership: 5+ years of professional experience in Product Design, UX Engineering, or Design Systems, with 2+ years in a people management or dedicated systems leadership role for a mature product organization.
• Creative Foundation Expertise: Proven experience defining and scaling foundational standards for product experiences, specifically encompassing Visual Design principles, Brand consistency, and UX Content Strategy.
• Design Tool Mastery: Expert proficiency in modern design tools (Figma is essential), including building, structuring, and maintaining scalable component libraries, component variants, and design tokens.
• Technical Fluency: Strong familiarity with front-end development technologies (HTML, CSS/SASS, JavaScript) and the lifecycle of components built using a modern framework (e.g., React).

• Compensation: $172,400—$215,500 USD annually for all full-time employees, with potential additional on-target commission pay or bonus for some roles.
• Health and Welfare: Health and welfare benefits including paid leave.
• Culture: Culture of diversity and inclusion with programs that bring employees together on important issues and provide educational opportunities.
• Growth Opportunities: Encouragement to learn different aspects of the business, take on stretch assignments, seek coaching, and pursue professional development.
• Work Flexibility: Hybrid work model combining remote work with access to office locations for collaboration, training, and socializing.
• Time Off: Generous paid time off policy.