Product Design Manager, Design System

Consumer Reports • Yonkers, NY

1d • Remote

About The Position

Consumer Reports is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to a fair and just marketplace for all. CR’s Design System team builds the core components, patterns, and infrastructure that enable better product experience for our members. We are seeking a Product Design Manager to own the design, evolution, and day-to-day advancement of our design system. Reporting to the Director, Product Design, this hands-on leader is responsible for designing scalable, high-quality components and patterns while establishing the processes that enable product teams to contribute while maintaining consistency, quality, and coherence. While the primary focus is owning and advancing our design system, this role will also contribute directly to product design initiatives as needed, partnering with cross-functional teams to ensure system integrity, consistency, and thoughtful user experience execution. If you are a design leader who enjoys shaping the underlying architecture of great digital products while staying close to the work itself, we are looking forward to reviewing your application and portfolio. This is a remote position.

Requirements

• 5–8+ years of experience in product design, including hands-on experience building, launching and maintaining a design system.
• Portfolio demonstrates systems thinking and component-based design.
• Experience working in lean or early-stage design system environments.
• Experience contributing to or establishing a federated or contribution-based system model.
• Solid understanding of scalable design patterns, modular frameworks, and accessibility standards.
• Ability to strike a balance between strategic system evolution and tactical product needs.

Nice To Haves

• Collaborated with engineering teams and have a familiarity with front-end implementation constraints.
• Strong communication skills and comfortable working in cross-functional environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver high-quality, reusable components, patterns, and interaction models that are scalable, accessible, and aligned with engineering constraints.
• Define and evolve contribution guidelines and workflows to establish and manage a federated contribution model that enables teams to effectively contribute and scale the design system.
• Set and uphold contribution standards and quality expectations for the design system, including reviewing and approving contributions from product teams.
• Contribute to system architecture decisions in partnership with engineering.
• Own prioritization decisions for the design system backlog and roadmap based on product needs, system gaps, and adoption goals.
• Partner with project management to support intake, planning, and delivery of design system work.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Design to ensure system alignment with product needs, including alignment between design assets and coded components and informing component architecture, tokens, and implementation patterns.
• Track adoption and identify gaps in system usage and coverage across product teams.
• Contribute to product design initiatives as needed, applying and extending system components in real-world contexts.
• Balance system integrity with pragmatic product delivery needs.

Benefits

• Medical benefits that start on your first day as a CR employee that include behavioral health coverage, family planning
• Generous 401K match
• Fair, transparent pay
• Competitive, market-informed compensation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees