Manager, Design Systems

Creating Peace of Mind by Pioneering Safety and Security

At Allegion, we help keep the people you know and love safe and secure where they live, work and visit. With more than 40 brands, 14,000+ employees globally and products sold in 130 countries, we specialize in security around the doorway and beyond. 

Additionally, Allegion is proud to be recognized with the 2026 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award (GEWA) for the third consecutive year, earning distinction in both the employee engagement and strengths categories. This year, Allegion also received Gallup’s With Distinction honor — a designation reserved for a select group of organizations that go above and beyond in building exceptional workplace cultures.

Manager, Design Systems - Golden, CO

The Allegion User Experience team is seeking a Manager, Design Systems to own the technical operation of our design system and to lead the people who build and maintain it. As part of the Global Software Solutions (GSS) UX team, you will work closely with product managers, software developers, designers, and researchers so that the design system is a dependable foundation for our mobile and web software.

This is a people-management role within UX, leading one to three direct reports (designers and/or engineers, depending on team needs). You will be a technically capable leader who operationalizes the system, not the person who builds every component. Product designers contribute components under the governance you set, and engineering partners review and approve code.

Allegion has invested in its design system. The next step is keeping it healthy and useful at scale: maintained coded components, clear standards, a reliable defect process, and AI-assisted workflows that help designers and engineers deliver faster and more consistently. This role provides the dedicated technical ownership that makes that possible.

Creating Peace of Mind by Pioneering Safety and Security

At Allegion, we help keep the people you know and love safe and secure where they live, work and visit. With more than 40 brands, 14,000+ employees globally and products sold in 130 countries, we specialize in security around the doorway and beyond. Additionally, Allegion is proud to be recognized with the 2026 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award (GEWA) for the third consecutive year, earning distinction in both the employee engagement and strengths categories. This year, Allegion also received Gallup’s With Distinction honor — a designation reserved for a select group of organizations that go above and beyond in building exceptional workplace cultures.

Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. The company does not intend to provide sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B, TN, etc.) for this employment position.

Hybrid:

At Allegion, we are driven by a bold vision: redefining safety while empowering our employees to thrive. When you join our team, you become part of a culture that values innovation, purpose, and excellence. This role offers the benefits of our dynamic hybrid work model—combining in-person collaboration for meaningful moments with the flexibility of remote work. Since hybrid arrangements can vary based on the needs of the individual, team and business, your talent acquisition partner will provide specific hybrid details about this role.

We are committed to fostering a healthy work-life balance and building meaningful connections, ensuring you have the tools, resources, and support needed to excel in any environment. Together, we’ll unlock your potential and create a lasting impact.

While this is the current structure and we currently have no plans to change, we reserve the right to make changes to the hybrid schedule as needed at the Company’s discretion.

What You Will Do:

• Own the shared design system repository, including GitHub workflows, pull requests, reviews, and component releases.
• Coordinate with engineering on building, reviewing, and releasing coded components, and set clear expectations for contributors.
• Keep the Figma library and the coded components in sync.
• Define and maintain contribution standards, versioning, and deprecation practices.
• Run the defect resolution process: how issues are reported, triaged, fixed, reviewed, and released, with named owners.
• Build accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA) into component standards and review.
• Build and maintain reusable agent skills (for example in Claude Code) that generate, check, and document components to our standards.
• Establish code review practices and guardrails for AI-generated code.
• Train designers and engineers to use these workflows and to review AI output.
• Create documentation, onboarding, and demos, and advocate for the design system across products.
• Define and report metrics on the health of the system, including adoption, reuse, and duplicated work.
• Manage and coach one to three direct reports, and manage external contractors where used.
• Partner with UX leadership, product, and engineering to align design system priorities with product roadmaps.

What You Need to Succeed:

• Bachelor’s degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in design systems, design engineering, UX, or front-end development, including 2+ years leading people or teams.
• Experience working in a shared code repository on GitHub: branching, pull requests, code review, and releases.
• Figma proficiency (components, variables, auto layout). Advanced component creation is not required.
• Experience with design token tooling and native mobile guidelines (Apple Human Interface Guidelines, Material Design).
• Front-end proficiency (HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and a component framework such as React) sufficient to build components and review others’ code.
• Technical proficiency in component-based UI development across web and/or native mobile platforms, with the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, evaluate implementation quality, and guide reusable component architecture.
• Experience defining design system governance: contribution, versioning, defect handling, and deprecation.
• Working fluency with Jira.
• Working knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2 AA).
• Strong communication and stakeholder collaboration skills, including the ability to influence engineering and product partners without direct authority.

Preferred:

• Experience implementing AI coding agents, reusable agent skills, or automated design-to-code workflows.
• Experience managing contractors or vendors.
• Experience in connected-device, security, or access-control software.

Success Measures:

• Increase adoption of shared components across targeted products.
• Contribution standards and versioning practices are published and in use.
• Improve component release predictability and defect resolution time.
• The repository workflow is documented, with regular, reviewed component releases.
• Establish measurable design-to-development efficiency improvements.
• Demonstrate practical value from AI-assisted workflows through a pilot and expand successful practices.
• Team proficiency in GitHub and AI-output review improves.

Why Work for Us?

Allegion is a Great Place to Grow your Career if: 

• You’re seeking a rewarding opportunity that allows you to truly help others. With thousands of employees and customers around the world, there’s plenty of room to make an impact. As our values state, “this is your business, run with it”.
• You’re looking for a company that will invest in your professional development. As we grow, we want you to grow with us.
• You want a culture that promotes work-life balance. Our employees enjoy generous paid time off, because at Allegion we recognize that you have a full life outside of work!
• You want to work for an award-winning company that invests in its people. Allegion is proud to be a recipient of the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award for the third year in a row, recognizing our commitment to employee engagement, strengths-based development, and unlocking human potential.

What You’ll Get from Us:

• Health, dental and vision insurance coverage, helping you “be safe, be healthy”
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• A commitment to your future with a 401K plan, which currently offers a 6% company match and no vesting period
• Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts – tax-advantaged accounts for healthcare and/or dependent daycare expenses
• Disability Insurance – Short-Term and Long-Term coverage, paid for by Allegion, provides income replacement for illness or injury
• Life Insurance – Term life coverage with the option to purchase supplemental coverage
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Voluntary Wellness Program – simply complete wellness activities and earn monetary rewards
• Employee Discounts through Perks at Work
• Community involvement and opportunities to give back so you can “serve others, not yourself”
• Opportunities to leverage your unique strengths through CliftonStrengths assessment & coaching

Compensation: This range is provided by Allegion. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience.

• The expected Base Salary Range: $118,200 - $187,000. The actual compensation will be determined based on experience and other factors permitted by law.
• Bonus Eligible: Yes

Apply Today!

Join our team of experts today and help us make tomorrow’s world a safer place!

Not sure if your experience perfectly aligns with the role? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification and every single preferred qualification of a job posting. At Allegion, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. So, if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every item in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role.

We Celebrate Who We Are! 

Allegion is committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace.  Together, we embrace all differences and similarities among colleagues, as well as the differences and similarities within the relationships that we foster with customers, suppliers and the communities where we live and work. Whatever your background, experience, race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, disability status, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law, we will make sure that you have every opportunity to impress us in your application and the opportunity to give your best at work, not because we’re required to, but because it’s the right thing to do.   We are also committed to providing accommodations for persons with disabilities. If for any reason you cannot apply through our career site and require an accommodation or assistance, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team.

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