About the Team
The Design System team at Miro is integral to shaping the user experience across Miro’s Innovation Workspace. The team is responsible for evolving and maintaining Miro's product design language, ensuring it is modern, inclusive, and accessible.
The team works closely with various teams across the organisation, including brand design, marketing, content design, accessibility, and localization, to provide a cohesive and consistent user experience. The team also manages the design system libraries in Figma and code, and its documentation portal, supporting Miro’s core product experiences across desktop, mobile, and interactive displays.
Learn more about Miro’s Innovation Workspace here.
About the Role
We're looking for a talented Design Manager to help evolve Miro's product design language and scale its supporting design system beyond its foundations. You will be responsible for driving the quality of the product experience across the organisation. You’re expected to bring strong creative leadership skills and direction, supported by a foundation of exceptional visual and motion design craft.
You’ll use these skills to ensure Miro’s designers, product and marketing teams, and external partners have the clarity, resources, and support needed to deliver high-quality design solutions at scale. You will work closely with the brand design team to align Miro’s brand design language with the product experience. You'll manage and lead a small team of Senior Designers, and be responsible for their growth and development at Miro.
Mironeers work in a hybrid model, with 2 days a week in the office. We are hiring this role for both our London and Berlin hubs and are also open to remote within EMEA.
What you’ll do
- Lead the implementation of Miro’s product design language and its supporting design system across the product organisation.
- Articulate and communicate a clear vision and direction for Miro's design system.
- Create company-wide awareness and engagement with Miro's design system.
- Deliver org-wide enablement through training, coaching, supporting tools and documentation.
- Elevate design quality across the org, supported by review processes, supporting rituals and tools.
- Help elevate visual and motion design skills across Miro’s product organisation.
- Drive career development of individual contributors on the design system team.
What you’ll need
- 10+ years of product design experience in B2B/SaaS/Enterprise products
- A portfolio showcasing exceptional visual and motion design skills and a strong sense of aesthetic.
- Strong creative direction, strategic and systems thinking, leadership, and communication skills.
- Experience in implementing design systems at scale, with demonstrated business impact.
- Experience working with large Design teams within mid to large product companies (200+).
- Experience with accessibility guidelines and applying these at scale.
What's in it for you
- Competitive equity package
- Lunch, snacks and drinks provided in the office
- Wellbeing benefit and WFH equipment allowance
- Annual learning and development allowance to grow your skills and career
- Opportunity to work for a globally diverse team
Miro is a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to build the next big thing. The platform's infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, serves more than 60M users worldwide, including 99% of the Fortune 100. Miro was founded in 2011 and currently has more than 1,800 employees in 12 hubs around the world.
We are a team of dreamers. We look for individuals who dream big, work hard, and above all stay humble. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do and through our work together we hope to create a supportive, welcoming, and innovative environment. We strive to play as a team to win the world and create a better version of ourselves every day. If this sounds like something that excites you, we want to hear from you!
Check out more about life at Miro:
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lifeatmiro
- Blog: https://miro.com/careers/life-at-miro/all/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mirohq/
At Miro, we strive to create and foster an environment of belonging and collaboration across cultural differences. Miro’s mission — Empower teams to create the next big thing — is how we think about our product, people, and culture. We believe that creating big things requires diverse and inclusive teams. Diversity invites all talent with different demography, identities and styles to step in, and inclusion invites them to step closer together. Every day, we are working to build a more diverse Miro, cultivate a sense of belonging for future and current Mironeers around the world, and foster an environment where everyone can collaborate and embrace differences.
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What We Do
Miro is a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to build the next big thing. The platform's infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, serves more than 60M users worldwide, including 99% of the Fortune 100. Miro was founded in 2011 and currently has more than 1,800 employees in 12 hubs around the world. At Miro, we are a team of nearly 1800 dreamers, thinkers, builders, storytellers, and designers from all over the world. That scale is one of our strengths, along with the intentionality behind our values. We champion one another to win the world. We lead with empathy and understanding to keep ourselves humble and our product human. We dream big, aim high, and let our failures inform our future successes. If you want to become a part of our team, keep reading to learn more about who we are and who you can become, with us.
Why Work With Us
We don't joke about our values. Everything we do, from how we hire talent, promote employees, and celebrate our people is informed by our values. Our values shape what we stand for, and what we stand against: - Play as a team to win the world - Focus on impact and make it happen - Learn, grow, and drive change - Practice empathy to gain insight
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