Senior Design Manager

Executive Office

The Executive Office plays an integral role in setting and advancing Goldman Sachs’ corporate strategy, and in preserving the firm’s distinctive culture. We are responsible for safeguarding the firm’s relationship with alumni, clients, shareholders, policy makers, and the broader public, while ensuring that our own people remain informed about the firm’s evolving priorities. We also partner with the businesses to source high-impact opportunities in line with the firm’s social and sustainability agendas.

About Goldman Sachs Marketing

Led by the firm’s first Chief Marketing Officer, the marketing function at Goldman Sachs is backed by momentum and a broad imperative to unify the discipline, helping to codify a business-critical function seen as core to the firm’s future growth. As such, GS is focused on building out a data-and-technology enabled team of growth marketers, delivering value for the brand and the business. The organization consists of COE teams including Brand Marketing, Marketing Strategy & Transformation, Content, Design, Media, and Marketing Tech and Effectiveness, as well as marketing teams for each of our revenue businesses. Together, this function collaborates to build a unified, scalable, and consistent approach to marketing the brand and its offerings. Our mission is to be a demonstrable force multiplier for the firm and the businesses we serve.

About the Role

We are seeking a vice president, Senior Design Manager, Design Systems, to lead and continue to scale our enterprise-wide core design system within the Global Marketing Team in the Executive Office. This individual will be responsible for driving the governance and adoption of a robust, scalable, and accessible design system that empowers teams to create cohesive and high-quality digital experiences for Goldman Sachs clients and prospective clients. 

As a leader within the marketing and design organization, you will manage and mentor a team of design system designers while collaborating closely with product and engineering teams to ensure alignment and efficiency across all platforms. This role also requires a hands-on approach being able to assess Figma component designs as well as implementation approach while collaborating with the engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Execute the roadmap and governance model for the central design system to support multiple product teams and platforms.
• Oversee design decisions to balance consistency and usability with flexibility, ensuring the system scales effectively while meeting a broad range of product needs.
• Advocate for design system adoption across the organization, securing stakeholder alignment and executive buy-in.
• Work alongside the product managers and engineering leads to establish joint success metrics and track the impact of the design system on product teams, user experience, and development efficiency.
• Lead a team of design system designers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
• Host office hours, governance reviews and facilitate knowledge sharing, training, and onboarding to increase adoption and contributions across teams.
• Oversee the design creation, evolution and execution of UI components, patterns, design tokens, and documentation from Figma through to code. 
• Ensure the design system meets accessibility (WCAG 2.1+), performance, and usability standards.
• Stay ahead of industry trends, integrating best practices and emerging technologies into the system. 

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in UX/UI design or product design, with a focus on design systems.
• 3+ years of design leadership or management experience.
• Expertise in Figma and knowledgeable in development technologies (React, design tokens, Swift UI).
• Strong understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG) and best practices for inclusive design.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience influencing cross-functional teams.
• Proven track record of scaling design systems within enterprise or multi-product organizations. 

Knowledge of principles and best practices in motion design and branding and how those are present and exposed within a design system.