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Design System Director (x/f/m)

Doctolib

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Head of Design Systems role in the Brand and Design team at Doctolib. Owns Oxygen, the company's design system, ensuring every product surface is built on a consistent, high-quality design foundation across an AI-first development environment.

What you'll do

  • Set multi-year vision and roadmap for Oxygen, connecting engineering, design, and brand teams
  • Translate system health into business impact
  • Own investment strategy for teams, tools, and governance
  • Establish cross-functional governance across Design, Product, Engineering, and Brand teams
  • Define contribution models, change management processes, and standards
  • Own design output quality, ensuring AI-generated interfaces are coherent, consistent, and on-brand
  • Define and drive cross-organizational adoption
  • Measure adoption rate, component coverage, and contribution velocity
  • Connect metrics to product team speed and quality
  • Manage and grow a team of designers, product people and engineers
  • Set career paths and a high bar for craft
  • Hire for the roles the system needs next

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years experience in product design or design systems
  • Proven track record scaling a mature, complex system across multiple product teams
  • Engineering fluency, understanding design system technical architecture
  • Understanding of how platform teams operate
  • Knowledge of AI-first software engineering best practices for design systems
  • Senior stakeholder management, negotiating priorities with Director-level leadership
  • Experience driving change management at scale across large, distributed organizations
  • Data-informed, outcome-oriented approach to measuring system health
  • Experience connecting metrics to product quality and business outcomes
  • Experience in a regulated, enterprise, or healthcare-adjacent context
  • Knowledge of accessibility (WCAG), localization (i18n, RTL), multi-market constraints
  • Fluent in English

Nice to have

  • Experience owning large-scale change management programs across cross-functional organizations
  • Additional European languages such as French, German, or Italian

Good to know

  • Hybrid work setup, up to 2 remote days per week
  • Start date as soon as possible
  • Interview process: recruiter interview
  • Interview process: portfolio review
  • Interview process: design system live case
  • Interview process: behavioral interview
  • Interview process: at least one reference check
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