Design System Manager - M/F/X

Accor Tech & Digital is the innovation and technological transformation lab of the world leader in hospitality.

Our teams, known as Heartists®, bring together the best of hospitality with the best of tech and digital. Our ambition is to provide our customers with personalized, memorable, and sustainable experiences.

Here, we create new ways to travel within each of our 5,500 hotels, connecting closely with our 100 million clients in 110 countries.

Here, we are at the heart of an incredible playground for technological transition and the design of digital products and services for our customers and hotel teams.

Here, your scope will know no boundaries;

So join us and dare to make an impact on the world!

Here is where your greatest challenge awaits you: 

Reporting to the Product Design team under the responsibility of the Design System Lead, you will be responsible for the entire lifecycle of the design system within the e-commerce tribe: vision, design, creation, documentation, and maintenance of a library used by numerous product teams. The Design System Manager maintains constant watch to stay at the forefront of rapidly evolving technology. They not only keep up with industry trends in development frameworks but also anticipate what the near future will bring. A strong taste for clean interfaces and a passion for outstanding user experiences are essential.

Your missions:

• Drive the vision of a design system covering visual style, UI components, and other design-related topics
• Provide feedback to designers and suggest trade-offs
• Challenge ideas and opinions to avoid pitfalls and inefficient solutions
• Ensure the development and consistent integration of effective components across the entire product portfolio
• Explain the system’s mission, library, and processes to Product Managers, content specialists, QA, designers, and development teams across the DBF
• Identify, monitor, and report on system usage
• Ensure the expansion of the design system’s scope and identify relevant products to adopt it
• Manage the backlog and roadmap of library elements
• Continuously maintain and update the system
• Build the Design System vision, guidelines, and OKRs with the team
• Co-build OKRs and roadmaps with Design and Product teams
• Ensure Content Designers are aligned with and understand their product visions and objectives
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Tech leads to break down silos
• Identify and discuss cross-functional synergies