Director of Design Systems, MongoDB
$129-253k
Developer data platform
Open for applications
Developer data platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$129-253k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years directly contributing to a design system
- 5+ years management experience on a design or engineering team, including managing other managers
- A deep understanding of best practices, processes, and latest developments that maximize the benefits and mitigate the risks of a coded design system
- Expert knowledge with at least one design system toolset (e.g. Figma, InVision)
- Robust understanding of core concepts and best practices with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React
- Experience working with ambiguity and continuous feedback, balancing open-mindedness with confident prioritization and execution
- Storytelling and communication skills that motivate and inspire
- Care deeply about the impact of their work and earning the trust of their partners
- Create a culture of accountability, excellence, and resourcefulness
- Have meticulous attention to detail
- Lead with humility, encouraging different points of view even when it disconfirms their beliefs
- Find ways to continually improve themselves and others; proactively provide and seek constructive feedback
- Be intellectually curious, always asking “how can we improve?”
- Embody our core values and leadership principles to guide how they work
What the job involves
- MongoDB’s Design Systems team is looking for a Design Systems Director who is passionate about enabling consistent, accessible, and delightful cross-product experiences
- Our team partners closely with Product Design, Engineering, Brand, and Research to shape product design strategy, define design patterns, and build widely-adopted libraries in our coded design system, LeafyGreen
- You will be leading a team of some of the best and brightest designers and engineers who thrive on collaboration, excellence in their craft, and mutual respect
- We treat our LeafyGreen Design System like a product, and the Design Systems Director sits at the intersection of design, engineering, and product management
- This leader will guide the overall strategy, roadmap, and growth of our cross-functional team
- Strategically prioritizing a design system roadmap, balancing user needs with business impact, technical complexity, and the health of the design system
- Developing and maintaining trusted partnerships with Product Design, Engineering, Research, and Brand partners to inform project prioritization and execution
- Orchestrating large-scale feature adoption and modernization initiatives that span product teams
- Shaping processes that systematically support a high level of craftsmanship across the design system suite, in partnership with Program Management
- Establishing, socializing, and monitoring team goals and objectives that serve a larger team vision
- Monitoring system use across the enterprise and evangelizing the benefits of the design system throughout the organization
- Evaluating and integrating design systems tools and technologies that can enhance the efficiency of the Design Systems, Product Design, and Engineering teams
- Hiring, mentoring, coaching, and retaining a talented, diverse, inclusive team of Interaction Designers and UI Engineers, including managers and individual contributors
- Designing and scaling the team, partnering closely with Executive Leadership and Talent Acquisition on headcount budgeting and forecasting
- Reporting team performance directly to the VP of Product UX
Our take
MongoDB is an open-source, cross-platform, document-oriented database system. It stores data as JSON-like documents and is written in C++, Go, JavaScript and Python.
Essentially, the company develops tools and blueprints to help businesses and organisations modernise their legacy applications, migrating them to the MongoDB database and the MongoDB Atlas cloud database. With this initiative, MongoDB is particularly taking aim at Oracle customers with ageing applications running on the Oracle relational database system.
Since its release, MongoDB has become one of the most popularly used NoSQL database systems due to its ease of use and efficiency. It is also the fastest-growing database ecosystem, and boasts hundreds of millions of downloads. Recently, the company announced a partnership with Patronus AI, an automated evaluation and security platform, through which it will bring automated LLM evaluation and testing capabilities to enterprise customers.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2015
$80m
SERIES G
Oct 2013
$150m
SERIES F
Total funding: $311.1m
Company benefits
- Rich health insurance coverage
- Virtual & on-site fitness classes
- Health screenings & telemedicine
- Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
- Global and internal mobility opportunities
- Equity & Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Pension & retirement programs
- Income Protection
- Flexible PTO is offered to every US employee & competitive time off policies for non-US employees
- Employee Assistance Program
- Mental health counseling
- Free meditation app access
- Fertility & adoption financial assistance
- Parental counseling for new parents
- 20 weeks of fully paid gender neutral parental leave & flexible work arrangements
- 4 weeks of emergency care leave
Company values
- Think Big, Go Far
- Build Together
- Embrace the Power of Differences
- Be Intellectually Honest
- Own What You Do
- Make it Matter
Company HQ
Theater District, New York, NY
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Leadership
Dwight Merriman
(Co-Founder)Previously CTO and Co-founder at DoubleClick for 10 years, and Chairman at AlleyCorp for 15 years.
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