• Drive the design system roadmap: prioritize based on product needs, system health, and adoption friction. • Demonstrated ability to set a clear, forward‑looking vision for design system evolution and drive stakeholder alignment. • Define and evolve component and pattern UX: anatomy, interaction states, responsive behavior, motion, and accessibility defaults. • Lead token strategy (primitive + semantic): semantics, theming, density, and scalable extensibility across products. • Establish and maintain system governance: contribution standards, quality bar, review process, versioning, deprecations, and migration plans. • Partner with design technologists, engineers and product design teams to ensure design-to-code fidelity, consistent component APIs, and minimal system drift. • Ensure high-quality standards of implementation-aware specs (not just visuals): edge cases, constraints, usage guidance, and acceptance criteria. • Collaborate with Design Technologists to translate system guidance into in-tool guardrails (linting, templates, plugin experiences). • Help define the system’s structured knowledge model (rules, constraints, do/don’t, examples) so it can power automation and AI-assisted support. • Identify design enablement workflow opportunities and prioritize enablement opportunities that reduce rework and raise consistency. • Measure adoption and impact, identify workflow friction, and execute enablement programs that reduce rework, raise consistency, and accelerate safe system evolution.