Job Description

At T&F; scale, design quality depends on the system designers work within. A well-governed design system enables consistency, accessibility, and speed; a neglected one creates technical debt and fragmentation. The Technical Design System Lead owns this infrastructure, treating it as a product with a roadmap, contribution model, and adoption strategy. Reporting to Head of Product Design, youll define what enters the system, how its built, documented, and used across design and engineering. This rare role requires genuine design sensibility, the ability to evaluate whether components, token architecture, and system decisions empower designers or constrain them. Youll ensure the system evolves alongside T&Fs; platform transformation.

Design System Strategy & Roadmap

You own the strategic direction of the design system, making active decisions about its content, priorities, and evolution not just responding to team requests.
- Define and maintain the design system roadmap, identifying gaps, deprecating outdated patterns, and sequencing improvements based on adoption data,



design team needs, and product direction
- Establish a explicit vision for the design system: its purpose, scope, and governing principles for growth
- Track and report on system health, adoption rates, component coverage, accessibility compliance, and the ratio of system-compliant to bespoke implementations
- Contribute to design strategy conversations, advising on how system capabilities enable or constrain product design direction
- Stay informed about T&Fs; evolving product portfolio to ensure new domains, interaction patterns, and platform capabilities are reflected in the system

Component Design & Token Architecture

You make the foundational decisions that every designer and engineer builds on.
- Design, build, and maintain a comprehensive library of reusable components covering all core interaction patterns, states, variants, and responsive behaviours
- Architect and govern design

📌 Technical Design System Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 Taylor and Francis
📍 Bengaluru