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Position Summary

We are looking for a talented and experienced Lead Director, Design Systems to drive the evolution of the CVS Digital Pulse design system. Pulse supports hundreds of designers, thousands of developers, and 60 million digital customers of our SMS, website and native app experiences. This highly motivated individual will bring a passion for systems thinking and unifying diverse teams around common solutions to shared goals along with proven success leading design systems at enterprise scale.

As a key member of our leadership team, the Design System Director collaborates with product, design, development, and marketing teams to support the delivery of simple, elegant, compelling, and user-centered design solutions that deliver the best health experiences to consumers through our design system.

This role focuses on optimizing an established modern design system for adoption, innovation, and efficiency, partnering with our design system development leader.

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution and execution of our design system vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with our customers’ evolving needs

• Ensure quality of our design system foundations, components, documentation, training, and support

• Build strong partnerships with our design, product, development, and marketing teams

• Evangelize, promote, and grow adoption of our design system through clear, compelling communication of its benefits

• Own, update and communicate our design system roadmap and releases, enabling our customers to know what we’re delivering and when

• Support our design system team leaders in defining their backlog, reporting on their progress, and successfully delivering on their commitments

• Decisively resolve conflicting priorities while considering diverse points of view  

• Collaborate with peer leaders in accessibility, content strategy, design operations, experience design, and research to ensure our design system reflects their teams’ expertise.

• Lead the evolution of our team processes to balance quality, speed, and flexibility

• Be a servant leader and coach to team, remove impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.

• Identify and nurture team growth and culture

• Hire and retain contract and full-time team members

• Establish annual goals and provide ongoing performance feedback to full time staff

Required Qualifications

• 10 or more years working in a digital design, product, or engineering organization.

• 5 or more years of experience leading an enterprise design system

• Ability to coordinate multiple workstreams, provide holistic design direction to large-scale projects

• Ability to interface with customers to understand their needs, identify open questions and decisions required to meet those needs, prioritize work

• Ability to communicate well to a wide variety of people including executives, leaders, engineers, architects, designers, marketers, and product managers.

• Record of delivering features on time with quality and value

• Experience working with accessibility experts

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or supporting design systems in Figma

• Familiarity with reusable code created in Angular, React, and Web Components

• Familiarity with iOS and Android development

• Experience working in regulated environments

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in business, tech, design or equivalent combination of education and experience

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$144,200.00 - $288,400.00

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls.  The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors.  This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.  This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program. 
 
In addition to your compensation, enjoy the rewards of an organization that puts our heart into caring for our colleagues and our communities.  The Company offers a full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits.  Eligible employees may enroll in the Company’s 401(k) retirement savings plan, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also available for eligible employees.  The Company provides a fully-paid term life insurance plan to eligible employees, and short-term and long term disability benefits. CVS Health also offers numerous well-being programs, education assistance, free development courses, a CVS store discount, and discount programs with participating partners.  As for time off, Company employees enjoy Paid Time Off (“PTO”) or vacation pay, as well as paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Number of paid holidays, sick time and other time off are provided consistent with relevant state law and Company policies. 
 
For more detailed information on available benefits, please visit Benefits | CVS Health

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 01/24/2025

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.