Design Systems Lead, Global Team at Slalom, LLC in Atlanta, Georgia

Job Description:

This is a role with one of Slalom's global teams - we are open to hiring in many locations and travel will be required as needed by our clients.



Who You'll Work With


In today's world, fast beats slow, and the secret to speed is the intersection of people, experiences, and technology. We live in and love that intersection as we help our clients reach for and realize their desired business outcomes. We sponsor and create offerings that enable us to deliver business-led solutions while developing business advisory skills and capabilities.



Who You'll Work With



You'll join Slalom's global team of strategists, researchers, designers, and technologists helping to ensure we achieve our strategic goals of investing for the future and pursuing innovation as a competitive advantage. We empower our local markets by identifying emerging capabilities, building multi-disciplinary teams, and providing access to niche and hyper specialized expertise.


Our GBAS Experience Design practice is looking to hire an experienced Design Systems Lead to our team. This individual will be a Sr Consultant, Principal, or Sr. Principal within Slalom's career framework. In this role you'll play a pivotal role in shaping pursuits, enabling our teams to achieve high valued outcomes for our clients.



What You'll Do

• Play the critical role at the intersection of business needs and technological constraints to champion users' needs and translate those needs into products and services that are useful, usable, and engaging


• Collaborate with team members to curate product experiences and inform and define design system requirements, coach teams on leading practices to create and maintain new design systems and consume existing systems, as well as develop the tools and processes they need to build high quality user experiences


• Help define the vision and prioritize needs around a design system roadmap


• Guide, advise and be ready to dive into UI libraries to demonstrate what good looks like and collaborate with developers to align on naming and component/pattern architecture


• Help clients assess the usability and accessibility of finished designs through review and user studies and evaluations of digital products


• Steward the design system and facilitate adoption by stakeholders - educating and advocating for the system, ensuring teams find it useful and can contribute to maturing the design system practice • Write documentation and usage guidelines that help designers, engineers, and other stakeholders understand and use foundations, components and patterns across design and code (for a variety of use cases and platform-specific scenarios)


• Establish information architectures and navigation for design systems - within a documentation site, and between parts of the system (e.g. from the design tool to Storybook, or documentation site to code repository)


• Foster relationships with alliance partners specific to design systems (e.g. Figma, Knapsack, zeroheight, etc.)


• Drive sales aligned to design systems capability through proactive solutioning within new and existing client engagements

What You'll Bring

• Prior experience with enterprise design systems - establishing a practice, building/maintaining the product and ensuring success


• Solid grasp of systems thinking - how to decompose a digital experience into smaller reusable parts and restructure coherently to design scalable solutions


• A passion for designing for all users inclusively and considering accessibility and conforming to WCAG guidelines and localization as part of your process


• Expert-level proficiency with common design tools/software (e.g. Figma, Sketch, Adobe CC, Axure, etc.) Working knowledge of code and frameworks is a plus.


• Prior technical writing experience and ability to distill complex concepts into simplified plain language.


• Strong knowledge of interaction design principles and working knowledge of broader design principles (color, type, grids, etc.).


• Outstanding communication, design thought leadership, presentation and storytelling skills to all levels of business and technology clients


• Experience in scoping and estimating work, driving sales, and leading others are all pluses

About Slalom


Slalom is a purpose-led, global business and technology consulting company. From strategy to implementation, our approach is fiercely human. In six countries and 43 markets, we deeply understand our customers-and their customers-to deliver practical, end-to-end solutions that drive meaningful impact. Backed by close partnerships with over 400 leading technology providers, our 13,000+ strong team helps people and organizations dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all. We're honored to be consistently recognized as a great place to work, including being one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For seven years running. Learn more atslalom.com.



Compensation and Benefits


Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that includemeaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer a yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being related expenses as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.


Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.In New York, the base salary pay range for this position is Sr Consultant $131,000 to $203,000, Principal $145,000 to $225,000 and Sr Principal $167,000 to $258,000. In New Jersey and Washington, the base salary pay range for this position is Sr Consultant $120,000 to $186,000, Principal $133,000 to $206,000, Sr Principal $153,000 to $237,000. In Colorado, the base salary pay range for this position is Sr Consultant $110,000 to $171,000, Principal $122,000 to $189,000, Sr Principal $140,000 to $217,000. The targeted base salary range for this position is $120,000 to $150,000. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.



EEO and Accommodations


Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to inclusion, diversity, and equity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process.


We will accept applications on an ongoing basis until a candidate is selected for the position. Apply Now