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About the Role
Deutsche Telekom is seeking a Lead Design Systems (m/f/d) to join the Design & Customer Experience team. This role will drive the evolution of a shared design foundation to ensure quality, consistency, and scale across Telekom’s products and services.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the vision and strategy for Telekom’s design system with Design, Engineering, and Product leadership.
- Drive design system initiatives across cross-functional teams, providing expert design leadership.
- Own and evolve components, tokens, patterns, and guidelines for consistency, quality, and accessibility.
- Enable designers, engineers, and product teams to adopt, contribute to, and improve the design system.
- Balance standardization with flexibility to foster innovation within shared foundations.
- Champion accessibility and inclusive design as core principles.
- Identify opportunities to improve tooling, governance, and workflows, integrating emerging technologies.
- Mentor designers and foster excellence through coaching and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Degree in Design or a related discipline.
- Several years of experience leading large-scale design systems in complex product organizations.
- Experience in influencing multidisciplinary teams across Design, Engineering, and Product.
- Proven experience leading enterprise-scale design systems.
- Strong design leadership with the ability to influence without formal authority.
- Excellent interaction, visual, and systems design skills.
- Technical fluency with design tokens, front-end frameworks, and design tooling.
- Deep knowledge of accessibility and inclusive design.
- Strategic thinking aligned with business and product goals.
- Outstanding communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Cross-functional leadership and change management capabilities.
- Fluent English; German is a plus.
- Applicants with severe disabilities who are equally qualified will be given preferential consideration.
Skills
- Design leadership
- Influence without formal authority
- Interaction design
- Visual design
- Systems design
- Design tokens
- Front-end frameworks
- Design tooling
- Accessibility
- Inclusive design
- Strategic thinking
- Communication
- Facilitation
- Stakeholder management
- Cross-functional leadership
- Change management
Location
- Bonn
- Berlin
- Darmstadt
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Lead
- Several years of experience
Education Level
- Degree in Design or a related discipline
Benefits
- Value-based innovation culture
- International and diverse team
- Meaningful projects with global customer impact
- Creative environment
- Continuous learning and career development opportunities
About the Company
- Deutsche Telekom AG is one of the largest telecommunications providers in Europe and the first choice in the gigabit society.
- We have the best network and 230,000 innovative minds.
- We connect work and life, and our products enrich people's everyday experiences.
- At Deutsche Telekom, we develop digital products, services and platforms used by millions of people across Europe every day.
- Within our Products.Innovation.Experience. department, we bring together product management, engineering, design, data and AI to build experiences that are simple, intelligent and relevant at scale.
Equal Opportunity
- Applicants with severe disabilities who are equally qualified will be given preferential consideration.