Doctolib is looking for a Head of Design Systems to join the Brand and Design team. The role owns Oxygen, Doctolib's design system, ensuring consistent, high-quality design foundations across all product surfaces.
What you'll do
- Set the multi-year vision and roadmap for Oxygen
- Translate system health into business impact and own investment strategy
- Establish cross-functional governance across Design, Product, Engineering, and Brand teams
- Define contribution models, change management processes, and standards
- Own design output quality across the product, including AI-generated interfaces
- 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 design system designers 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 of experience in product design or design systems
- Track record of scaling a mature, complex system across multiple product teams
- Engineering fluency in design system technical architecture and platform teams
- Understanding of AI-first software engineering best practices for design systems
- Senior stakeholder management skills at Director level and above
- Ability to negotiate priorities and drive change management at scale
- Data-informed and outcome-oriented approach to measuring system health
- Experience connecting metrics to product quality and business outcomes
- Experience in regulated, enterprise, or healthcare-adjacent contexts
- Knowledge of accessibility (WCAG), localization (i18n, RTL), and 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
- Permanent position
- Full-time
- Paris, France
- Hybrid work setup (up to 2 remote days per week)
- Start date: as soon as possible
- Interview process: recruiter interview, portfolio review, design system live case, behavioural interview, at least one reference check