Your Opportunity

We are looking for a seasoned Design Systems Leader who will work on a cross-functional leadership team to build, deploy, and scale Schwab’s digital design system. We are on a journey to build the future of financial services. We help our clients plan for their future and they are passionate about the tools and experiences we provide. You will:

• Lead a team of designers and design leaders
• Define the cross-platform (iOS, Android, Web) design system that drives our client- and advisor-facing experiences
• Work with engineering teams to understand their perspectives and needs, and inform the implementation and adoption strategy of the design system
• Work in collaboration with other designer leaders, product leaders, and technology leaders to build the components, features, and guidelines we need to deliver the best experience to our clients
• Impact the evolution of our digital experience by influencing the operating model that our digital teams adopt
• Maintain a horizontal view of the product experience to identify opportunities for greater consistency, efficiency, and quality through the design system

What you are good at

• Providing thought partnership, direction and design solutions with a multi-faceted team, taking into account how digital, physical, and service channels work together
• Facilitating collaborative design sessions including sketching and ideation, both remote and/or in-person
• Effectively partnering with product, technology and business stakeholders, leading design reviews with teams and driving decision making
• Being a systems thinking who has can pay attention to detail while considering the end-to-end experience
• Visualizing ideas in a clear form (sketch, diagram, wireframe or prototype) and provide appropriate level of documentation
• Presenting with executive presence including data backed decisions and rationale (analytics, research, usability studies, etc)
• Managing and mentoring a team of designers to grow the team’s capabilities and impact within the organization
• Bringing teams together to resolve issues and deal with any necessary escalations in an appropriate manner.
• Being able to present a vision while leading a team through execution
• Demonstrating ongoing improvement as a learner and is proactive or goes beyond role definitions

What you have

• Very strong collaboration and influencing skills
• 3 years of experience working on or with fully-featured design systems that encompass shared design libraries with coded counterparts, or extensive experience designing modular/component-based consumer experiences
• Experience working in a collaborative multi-disciplinary team within an iterative process and an Agile development methodology
• 10 years of design experience, focused on digital products
• Experienced with all aspects of a user-centered interaction design process, including user research, user flows, wireframes, usability testing, and annotated design specifications
• Ability to communicate complex messages and trade-offs and tell a compelling story
• Strong self-management skills, comfortable with substantial responsibility, working directly with our client partners, and capable of managing your project schedules
• Proficient in design tools like Figma, Mural, InVision, Sketch, Axure, etc.
• Experience running design sessions with cross-functional teams
• Comfort in a project-oriented work environment, with a positive attitude and solid work ethic