Design Lead, Design Systems

Design Lead, Design Systems

Role Summary

The Anywhere UX team is scaling quickly, and we're looking for a Design Lead to guide the evolution of our design system. In this role, you'll help drive consistency, scalability, efficiency, and quality across our products - ensuring designers and engineers have the tools, components, and foundations they need to deliver great experiences quickly and predictably.

You'll work hands-on in Figma, collaborating closely with product designers and engineers to refine our system's structure, improve how design connects to code, and ensure that our design standards scale across a multi-product ecosystem. The role blends craft, systems thinking, and cross-functional collaboration - ideal for someone who loves getting into the details while helping teams move faster with clarity and confidence.

What you'll do

• Advance our design system foundations - evolve and maintain components, patterns, and tokens to support a consistent, scalable design language across products.

• Collaborate across disciplines - partner with product design and engineering to ensure the system meets both product and technical needs.

• Bridge design and code - work closely with front-end engineers to improve component quality, naming, and handoff, ensuring parity between design and development.

• Support contribution and feedback loops - help shape a healthy contribution model that allows teams to propose updates, share learnings, and continuously improve the design system.

• Document and communicate - maintain clear documentation in tools like Zeroheight and Confluence to enable easy adoption and alignment.

• Ensure quality and usability - review implementations, gather feedback, and ensure components maintain design integrity, adaptability, and alignment with system standards.

• Support system governance - help define lightweight processes that keep updates organized and maintain clarity across teams and products.

• Mentor through influence - support designers in using and contributing to the design system, fostering consistency and thoughtful flexibility in how we design.

• Explore new tools and workflows - experiment with automation and AI-assisted solutions that enhance documentation, asset creation, and system management.

What you bring

• 8-12 years of experience in product design, with at least 5 years focused on design systems.

• 3-5+ years in a senior/lead role with experience mentoring or managing designers, strongly preferred.

• A portfolio demonstrating strong visual and interaction design, component thinking, and scalable system work.

• Deep knowledge of Figma - including component architecture, variables, tokens, and shared libraries.

• Experience working closely with engineering and an understanding of component architecture, design tokens, Storybook (or similar), and how design maps to code.

• Familiarity with documentation and collaboration tools such as Zeroheight, Jira, Confluence, and GitHub to support clear communication and system alignment.

• Working knowledge of accessibility best practices and WCAG guidelines, ensuring components and patterns support inclusive experiences.

• Familiarity with content design principles and the ability to apply clear, concise language within components, patterns, and documentation.

• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence partners and executives.

• A mindset for continuous improvement, curiosity, and finding smarter ways to scale design quality.

Anywhere Real Estate Inc. (http://www.anywhere.re/) ? (NYSE: HOUS) is moving real estate to what's next. Home to some of the most recognized brands in real estate?Better Homes and Gardens® Real Estate (https://www.bhgre.com/) ,?Century 21® (https://www.century21.com/) ,?Coldwell Banker® (https://www.coldwellbanker.com/) ,?Coldwell Banker Commercial® (https://www.cbcworldwide.com/) ,?Corcoran® (https://www.corcoran.com/) ,?ERA® (https://www.era.com/) , and?Sotheby's International Realty® (https://www.sothebysrealty.com/eng) , we fulfill our purpose to empower everyone's next move through our leading integrated services, which include franchise, brokerage, relocation, and title and settlement businesses, as well as mortgage and title insurance underwriter minority owned joint ventures. Anywhere supports nearly 1 million home sale transactions annually and our portfolio of industry-leading brands turns houses into homes in more than 118 countries and territories across the world.

At Anywhere, we are empowering everyone's next move - your career included. What differentiates us is our scale, expertise, network, and unique business model that positions us as a trusted advisor throughout every stage of the real estate transaction. We pursue talent - strategic thinkers who are eager to always find a better way, relentlessly focus on talent, obsess about growth, and achieve exceptional results. We value our people-first culture, which thrives on empowerment, innovation, and cross-company collaboration as we keep moving the world forward, together. Read more about our company culture and values in our annual Impact Report (https://anywhere.re/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2024-Impact-Report.pdf) .

We are proud of our award-winning culture and are consistently recognized as an employer of choice by various organizations including:

• Great Place to Work

• Forbes World's Best Employers

• Newsweek World's Most Trustworthy Companies

• Ethisphere World's Most Ethical Companies

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