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This role ensures platform-specific components, design tokens, patterns, documentation, and implementation guidance align with established enterprise design-system standards while supporting scalable, consistent, accessible, and high-quality digital experiences.\nThe Platform Design Systems Lead will collaborate with design, engineering, product, accessibility, and enterprise design-system teams to translate organizational standards into practical platform solutions. This position focuses on platform-level strategy, governance, documentation, adoption, technical enablement, and design-to-development workflows rather than ownership of the enterprise-wide design system.\nThe ideal candidate combines strong design-system expertise with front-end technical knowledge, an understanding of CI/CD and release processes, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams. While hands-on development experience is valuable, the primary focus is on improving design-system adoption, implementation consistency, accessibility, and operational efficiency.\nHybrid in either Vienna VA, Winchester VA or Pensacola FL 3 days per week onsite.\nBenefits:\nComprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance\nEmployer-Paid Life Insurance\nEmployer-Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance\n401(k)\nPaid Time Off (PTO) that includes Vacation Leave, Sick Leave, and 11 Paid Holidays\nEducational Assistance\nSalary: $90-124K\n**An In Person interview will be required for this role**\nClick here to learn about BRMi's culture.\nClick here to see BRMi’s Glassdoor reviews\nResponsibilities\nDefine and maintain the platform design-system roadmap in alignment with product objectives, platform priorities, accessibility requirements, and enterprise design-system standards.\n\nPromote adoption of approved design patterns, components, design tokens, documentation, and contribution practices across the assigned platform.\n\nRepresent platform requirements, constraints, and feedback in enterprise design-system discussions to support practical implementation.\n\nProvide recommendations to leadership regarding design-system priorities, technical gaps, adoption challenges, risks, and opportunities for improvement.\n\nCollaborate with design, engineering, product, accessibility, and enterprise design-system teams to ensure platform solutions meet business, user, technical, and accessibility requirements.\n\nEstablish and maintain platform-level governance processes, contribution workflows, intake procedures, decision criteria, and implementation standards.\n\nFacilitate collaboration between designers, developers, and stakeholders to improve design-to-development handoffs, clarify ownership, and align expectations.\n\nCoordinate with enterprise design-system partners on cross-platform requirements, standards, and decisions.\n\nEvaluate front-end implementation feasibility and provide technical guidance regarding design-system components, patterns, and design tokens.\n\nPartner with front-end engineers to ensure components and patterns are accessible, performant, reusable, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise standards.\n\nSupport improvements to CI/CD and release processes for design-system assets, including build, testing, documentation, versioning, dependency management, and deployment workflows.\n\nIdentify technical gaps in component libraries, design token pipelines, documentation, and implementation processes and recommend improvements.\n\nDevelop platform implementation guidance, technical examples, and lightweight prototypes as needed.\n\nCreate and maintain design-system documentation using tools such as Storybook, Zeroheight, and other documentation platforms.\n\nDevelop and deliver training materials, workshops, office hours, and onboarding resources to promote consistent design-system adoption.\n\nDocument component usage guidelines, design token applications, accessibility expectations, contribution processes, and engineering handoff standards.\n\nProvide guidance to platform teams regarding the appropriate use of enterprise standards and platform-specific implementation practices.\n\nConduct platform audits to evaluate design consistency, code alignment, accessibility compliance, documentation quality, and design-system adoption.\n\nAnalyze audit results, adoption metrics, and stakeholder feedback to identify opportunities for improvement.\n\nMonitor emerging design-system technologies, accessibility practices, documentation tools, and front-end development trends.\n\nRecommend improvements that reduce rework, strengthen implementation consistency, and improve design-system maturity.\n\nPerform other duties as assigned.\n\nQualifications\n5+ years of experience in design systems, product design, design operations, front-end engineering, or a related digital product discipline.\n\nDemonstrated experience leading, governing, or significantly contributing to design-system adoption within a product area, platform, or large-scale digital environment.\n\nWorking knowledge of front-end technologies, including HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript.\n\nFamiliarity with modern component frameworks and libraries such as React, Vue, or comparable technologies.\n\nAbility to collaborate effectively with engineering teams and evaluate technical implementation feasibility.\n\nExperience with design token management, theming systems, component-library architecture, and cross-platform implementation considerations.\n\nUnderstanding of CI/CD concepts and workflows, including build, testing, release management, versioning, documentation, dependency management, and quality assurance.\n\nExperience identifying technical and process gaps and translating findings into actionable recommendations.\n\nStrong understanding of design principles, UI/UX best practices, 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