Design System Director

About the role

The Head of Design Systems will lead the Oxygen design system, ensuring consistent, high-quality design foundations across all Doctolib product surfaces. This role involves setting the multi-year vision, managing cross-functional governance, and driving adoption across a large organization of designers and engineers. You will directly influence the experience of millions of patients and healthcare professionals by scaling design quality in an AI-first environment.

Responsibilities

• Set the multi-year vision and roadmap for Oxygen, connecting the dots across engineering, design, and brand teams.
• Establish cross-functional governance across Design, Product, Engineering, and Brand teams, defining contribution models and change management processes.
• Own design output quality across the product, ensuring AI-generated interfaces are coherent and on-brand.
• Define and drive cross-organizational adoption, measuring metrics like adoption rate and contribution velocity.
• Manage and grow a team of designers, product people, and engineers, setting career paths and hiring for the system's needs.

Required skills

• Product design
• Design systems
• Engineering fluency
• Stakeholder management
• Change management
• Data-informed decision making
• Accessibility
• Localization
• English

Nice to have

• French
• German
• Italian

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in product design or design systems
• Experience in a regulated, enterprise, or healthcare-adjacent context

Benefits

• Deutschlandticket
• Company health insurance
• Company pension scheme
• Parental leave program
• Employee value sharing plan
• Mental health and coaching services
• Subsidized sports membership
• Subsidized meal benefit
• Relocation support
• AI tools access

About the Company

Doctolib is a company dedicated to improving access to healthcare by building innovative products and features for care teams and patients. Their solutions are built on a cloud-native platform that supports multiple languages and is adapted to country and healthcare specialty requirements.