Product Design Lead- Design System Position

Genesis10 is seeking a Product Design Lead- Design System Position for a 6-month remote contract position with a leading client located in Brooklyn, OH. This role pays $88/HR W2 based on experience. Candidates applying must be a US Citizen or Green Card Holder and able to work on a W2 basis directly with Genesis10. Job Description: We are seeking a 6-month contract Product Design Lead to develop and evolve our UX Design System within existing brand standards and usability best practices. The immediate focus will be to complete the component libraries for client's Consumer Digital teams-delivering the Figma designs and documentation while coordinating with developer partners to code and push components to squads. In addition, you will lead the definition of common components and design patterns that will bring our design principles and brand strategy to life across our consumer digital ecosystem. The ideal candidate will have strong product management and project management skills and will balance many considerations to identify and prioritize opportunities to increase the consistency of our customer's experience. Exceptional collaboration skills are also required to facilitate alignment on system components and drive adoption of the system across many teams. To be successful in this role, you must have the ability to fluently communicate in the vernacular of Design, Business and Technology and effectively translate across all three. We are approaching our design system as a product, so a deep understanding of digital design, UX, documentation, and the product development and creative processes are essential for success. Job Duties: Define Standards: Gather input across all product portfolios to mature and continue defining a Design System that is viable, scalable and which strengthens the brand through consistency. Lead a cross-portfolio, multi-disciplinary guild of team members who all contribute to the evolution of the system. Drive decision-making on system standards and exceptions. Product Management: Using Jira in collaboration with the developer team, manage and prioritize the backlog and roadmap of system components and features. Balance delivering minimum useful functionality with properly scalable system design. Challenge the team on what to automate vs manually perform. Partner with Product Owners, designers, and developers to define the scope and timing of implementation. Drive Excellence: Define and direct the process for evolving the system over time. Align research activity to assess the efficacy of the system. Implement and facilitate ongoing reviews to assess the quality, consistency and usefulness of system components. Schedule and facilitate regular meetings for critique, planning, and review of new work. Communication: Ensure all team members have access to the tools and guidelines they need to adopt the system. Gather input regularly from team members and stakeholders to identify successes, challenges and perspectives. Synthesize findings into specific recommendations to fuel the backlog and roadmap. Represent the system's purpose, library and process to other groups throughout the enterprise as needed. Contract Primary Scope Delivery (Existing): 10 existing stories that have design dependencies 16 existing component updates (e.g., Input, Dropdown)-these updates range from altering color for ADA compliance to redefining dynamic sizing/flexibility to adding additional functionality/states Design specific tasks not directly impacting the Design System: Update Figma library of 395 components (and documentation) that are currently being used in production. This number will grow to include Figma components that are in-progress and in-queue for development Complete the design and documentation of the current 9 in-progress components in Figma. Each of these files could have many different individual Figma components with mul