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Design system managerPennylane · France
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Design system manager

🗓️ Posted 2026-07-08 France Fulltime Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market 4,500 EUR–6,500 EUR/mo

About the Company

Pennylane is one of the fastest growing Fintechs in France (and soon to be in Europe ) In 6 years of existence, we've managed to: - Make ourselves known as a groundbreaking accounting and financial software for small businesses and their accountants - Raise a total of 225 millions, including from Sequoia, the famous fund from the Silicon Valley who invested early in companies like Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Stripe, Paypal and much more... - Grow from 7 cofounders to 650+ happy Pennylaners: we're now recognized as one of the greatest places to work in France (and also remotely), with a 4.6/5 rating on Glassdoor. - Build an international environment with more than 25 nationalities, with a strong remote-friendly culture, where 30% of the employees are already working from all parts of Europe - Earn the trust of thousands of customers and accounting firms and obtain outstanding ratings - Already more than 400,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and over 4,500 accounting firms use Pennylane in France DESIGN AT PENNYLANE Design sits at the centre of this mission and its purpose is to deliver a seamless, accessible and enjoyable experience for our users. Our team of 40+ product designers work across different tracks that are divided into cross-functional squads each consisting of Engineering, Product and Design. Autonomy, trust and transparency are the key values upon which our culture is built, this is directly reflected in how our des

Requirements

  • ● DESIGN SYSTEM STRATEGY & VISION
  • ● Ability to balance an ambitious long-term vision with pragmatic, milestone-driven delivery that creates value at every step
  • ● Strong product sense applied to a design system - treating it as a product with users, adoption metrics, and a roadmap
  • ● GOVERNANCE & OPERATING MODEL
  • ● A track record of setting and holding a quality bar for components, tokens, patterns, and accessibility as contribution volume grows
  • ● Comfort making tooling and infrastructure decisions that affect the system, in partnership with design ops and engineering
  • ● CRAFT & TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP
  • ● A genuine maker who is hands-on today, with a small team you personally author components, tokens, and patterns and maintain the Figma library rather than only directing the work, tapering direct production toward review and orchestration as the team grows
  • ● Deep design-system craft, components, APIs, token systems, semantic naming, theming / multi-brand, with the ability to provide craft direction and mentorship to IC designers
  • ● Strong technical acumen and a clear understanding of how design systems are implemented in code, comfortable in a production-first environment where code is the source of truth
  • ● Expertise in what makes a design system interpretable by AI: structured, machine-readable, AI-ready documentation, and how LLMs and codegen agents consume a system (MCP, token automation)
  • ● ENABLEMENT, ADOPTION & COMMUNICATION
  • ● Demonstrated ability to drive system adoption through evangelism, clear narratives, and presentations to diverse audiences including leadership
  • ● Strong partnership skills with design, engineering, and product leadership
  • ● NICE TO HAVE
  • ● Familiarity with multi-language / internationalization design challenges
  • ● Background in accessibility standards and inclusive design practices
  • ● YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
  • ● Own the vision, roadmap, and governance of Purse, evolving the system as a product toward an ambitious, AI-ready future through high-value, milestone-driven releases
  • ● Set and uphold the quality bar for components, tokens, patterns, and accessibility - building system work hands-on today and providing craft leadership and direction to the Design System Designer(s), tapering direct production as the team grows