About the Role
Doctolib is seeking a Head of Design Systems to lead the Oxygen design system, ensuring a consistent and high-quality design foundation across all product surfaces. This role is crucial for maintaining brand identity and design quality at scale within an AI-first development environment, impacting millions of patients and healthcare professionals.
Responsibilities
- Set the multi-year vision and roadmap for Oxygen, aligning engineering, design, and brand teams.
- Translate system health into business impact and manage investment strategy for supporting teams, tools, and governance.
- Establish cross-functional governance across Design, Product, Engineering, and Brand teams, defining contribution models and standards.
- Own design output quality across the product, ensuring coherence and consistency in AI-generated interfaces.
- Define and drive cross-organizational adoption, measuring key metrics and their impact on product team speed and quality.
- Manage and grow a team of design system designers and engineers, including career development and hiring.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in product design or design systems, with a proven track record of scaling mature systems.
- Engineering fluency, including understanding of technical architecture, platform team operations, and AI-first software engineering best practices.
- Demonstrated senior stakeholder management skills, with the ability to negotiate priorities and drive change management at scale.
- Data-informed and outcome-oriented approach, measuring system health with real metrics and connecting them to business outcomes.
- Experience in a regulated, enterprise, or healthcare-adjacent context with considerations for accessibility (WCAG), localization (i18n, RTL), and multi-market constraints.
- Fluent in English.
Skills
- Product Design
- Design Systems
- Engineering Fluency
- Stakeholder Management
- Data Analysis
- Accessibility (WCAG)
- Localization (i18n, RTL)
Location
- Paris, France
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Permanent
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years
Benefits
- Free comprehensive health insurance for employee and children
- 25 days of paid vacation per year, plus up to 14 days of RTT
- Free mental health and coaching services
- Work from abroad for up to 10 days per year
- Lunch vouchers (€8.50 per working day, €4.50 covered by Doctolib)
- Subsidy for sports club or creative class membership
- 50% reimbursement of public transport subscription
- ParentCare Program: Full salary coverage (100%) for the first month of birth leave, and 75% for the second
- Package for caregivers and workers with disabilities (remote policy adaptation, extra days off, psychological support)
- Relocation support for international mobility
- Access to the best AI tools for coding, development, and dedicated training
About the Company
- Doctolib is a leading digital health company dedicated to improving access to healthcare.
- Their solutions are built on a single, cloud-native platform supporting web and mobile interfaces, multiple languages, and adapted to country and healthcare specialty requirements.
- The tech stack includes Rails, TypeScript, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and React Native.
- They leverage AI ethically to empower patients and health professionals.
Equal Opportunity
- Doctolib is committed to improving access to healthcare for everyone and evaluates candidates based solely on qualifications and motivation, without discrimination.
- They welcome applications regardless of gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or disability.
- Candidates are invited to exclude personal information from applications to ensure equal opportunities.
- Accommodation and support are available during the hiring process upon request.
