Lead Product Design (m/f/d)

Job Description

You will join Deezer's Product & Tech organisation of 200 people, including a design team of 11 designers. As Design System Manager, you will own, evolve, and champion Tempo – Deezer's design system.

What you will do

• Phase 1 — Clean the system
  • Bring Figma libraries to a stable, well‑structured, fully documented state.
  • Support, update or establish (if needed) manual processes: contribution flow, deprecation, icon addition, release notes, and support.
  • Define and track health metrics for adoption and system coverage.
  • Lay the governance foundations: office hours, onboarding, DS champions across teams.
  • Re‑align the design team around shared conventions and best practices, to restore consistency across workstreams.
• Phase 2 — Scale the system
  • Connect Tempo to Brand, CRM, and Marketing — ensuring coherence beyond the product surface.
  • Set up onboarding and ongoing education for contributors (training, office hours, playground files).
  • Automate processes by leveraging the Figma API: release notes, doc sync, parity checks.
  • Build a Content System for copy and tone‑of‑voice patterns.
  • Explore tools like Dust AI and Code Connect to reduce manual overhead and enable fast vibe‑coding workflows on a public, code‑connected DS repo.

Hard Skills

• Deep Figma expertise — variables, auto‑layout, component architecture, library management, Code Connect.
• Experience writing clear, structured component documentation.
• Familiarity with Figma API, webhooks, or automation scripting.
• Ability to understand technical aspects (design tokens, Compose/Swift/React).
• Experience with AI prototyping or LLM‑assisted design workflows is a strong plus.

Soft Skills

• Strategic thinker: you can establish a vision for the design system, translate it into a short‑ and mid‑term roadmap, and get stakeholders to buy into it.
• Strong cross‑functional communicator — fluent in both design and engineering conversations.
• Autonomous and ownership‑oriented: you drive subjects without waiting to be told what to do.
• Clear and proactive communicator: you bring structure and clarity to ambiguous topics, share regular updates, and know how to get stakeholders aligned and bought in.
• Rigorous and structured — you build processes that scale, not just components.
• Pedagogue: you write docs people actually read, and you bring teams along with you.
• Comfortable operating without direct reports while having influence.

Portfolio & Application

Sharing a portfolio or case studies that could demonstrate your impact is mandatory to apply.

Benefits & Additional Information

• Diversity & Inclusion initiatives: regular internal and external talks, dedicated work streams, mandatory training for managers, English and French courses for all.
• Health insurance, transportation, and other standard benefits.
• Additional perks: Deezer premium family account for free, access to gym classes, allowance for sports, travelling and culture.
• Great offices located in dynamic districts in Paris, London, or São Paulo.

If you want to learn more about life and culture at Deezer, please visit our Welcome to the Jungle page.