MSD Czech Republic is hiring an Associate Director to own the omnichannel design system that powers customer-facing content creation across all brands and geographies. The role sits within the content supply chain, reporting to the Director, Content Creation & Storage, and governs components, tokens, standards, and adoption across a matrixed organisation.
What you'll do
- Own the design system as a product, defining vision, roadmap, and release plan
- Translate brand identity, accessibility, and channel needs into standards and reusable components
- Govern integration between Figma, Supernova, and developer environments for design tokens
- Establish versioning, deprecation, and contribution processes for continuous evolution
- Manage the component library and token architecture in Figma for design-to-development handoff
- Run the governance model, including intake, design review, quality control, and approval
- Maintain alignment between design assets and production across Adobe, Figma, and AI tools
- Drive adoption across brands, markets, and agency partners via documentation and training
- Define and publish content development standards, naming, metadata, and usage guidance
- Partner with agencies and creative teams so new work is built from the system
- Define how AI-generated content is created, reviewed, and governed with guardrails
- Evaluate emerging design and content technologies for production improvements
- Pilot new approaches with selected brands or markets and scale what works
- Define and monitor KPIs for reuse, adoption, consistency, and cycle time
- Act as strategic partner across product, brand, creative, technology, and market teams
- Create transparency through reporting and leadership updates
What we're looking for
- 6+ years in product management, design systems, or digital/brand experience delivery
- Direct experience owning a design system end to end, including tokens and governance
- Deep hands-on knowledge of Figma, including components, tokens, and handoff
- Strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite
- Experience using Supernova or similar tooling with Storybook and GitHub
- Experience partnering with brand, creative, agency, engineering, and market stakeholders
- Practical experience applying AI-generated content, including prompt design and guardrails
- Ability to apply content standards: modular models, metadata, naming, accessibility
- Understanding of regulated or compliance-sensitive environments
- Experience delivering design systems across multiple brands and geographies
- Ability to travel up to 20%
- Bachelor's degree in design, HCI, marketing, communications, technology, or related field
- Strong product mindset treating the design system as a living product
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills in a matrixed environment
- Strong design craft and systems thinking across channels and brands
- Analytical, outcome-oriented approach to defining and acting on KPIs
- Strong collaboration and leadership presence delivering results through others
Nice to have
- Advanced degree preferred
Good to know
- Visa sponsorship available
- No relocation assistance
- Travel requirement up to 25%
- Hybrid work arrangement
- Regular employee status
- No valid driving licence required
- Primary location Prague
