Lead Designer / Design System Owner (f/x/m) in Tech & Data Team

Our design system is the shared foundation behind the experiences millions of musicians use on thomann.de. It provides consistent components and guidelines for our product teams so they can build faster and focus on what makes each experience unique.

The Design System Team sits within our Product Division, alongside Product Design and Product Research, and brings together a Design System Architect and a group of frontend engineers who turn design decisions into robust, reusable code. We treat the design system as a product in its own right, with its own users, roadmap and priorities.

• Tjark, Tobias & Heiko are our Frontend Engineers, building and improving the components our shop is made of and making sure every team can use them with ease.

• Juliane designs the components that bring our shop to life as our Design System Architect, owns our Figma and accessibility libraries and helps new designers find their way.

• And that’s where you come in: As our Product Owner, you help us decide what matters most, keep close contact with the many teams who rely on our Design System and roll up your sleeves as a designer to shape our components hands-on.

We work remote, distributed, together: Whether fully remote within Germany or on-site in our offices in Berlin & Erlangen - always as a team, always customer-oriented and data-driven.

Here’s what you’ll be doing

• Own and maintain the design system roadmap, documentation and backlog, aligned with the needs of consuming product teams and with the division's process while following scrum events and existing formats in the team.

• Run intake and triage: collect requests from designers, engineers and product owners, make prioritization decisions, communicate them transparently and track adoption.

• Represent the design system in cross-team planning, and represent consuming teams' needs inside the design system team.

• Design and improve components end to end like states, variants, responsive behaviour, accessibility, edge cases.

• Maintain the quality bar for anything entering the shared library in Figma.

• Work closely with the Design System Architect to make sure design intent and component architecture match.

What you should bring to the table

• Experience owning a product or platform backlog, including saying no to stakeholders and explaining why.

• Hands-on product design skill: you can design a component to production quality yourself, not only review someone else's.

• Advanced Figma skills, including component and variant modelling in a shared library.

• Solid understanding of design systems: tokens, component APIs, theming, accessibility requirements.

• Enough technical fluency to have a substantive conversation with frontend engineers about implementation constraints.

• Strong written communication. Much of this role is documentation, release notes and rationale.

What we have to offer

• Flexible working hours and location, with the option to go into the office (fully-remote possible)

• 13th salary in November

• Further training opportunities with clear development paths for your career

• Thomann.de employee discount

• Personal work equipment according to your wishes and regarding your role

• Regular team events

• English or German language courses

• 1:1 sessions with an external coach, for professional development

• Urban Sports Club discount

• and more! Check out our Handbook
  

We value inclusion and diversity

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer that creates a welcoming atmosphere, and value diversity in our teams. We do not make judgements based on ethnicity, nationality, age, marital status, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, or religion.