Senior Product Manager - Design System

Mindera

3d•Remote

About The Position

Mindera is seeking a Product Manager to lead the evolution and adoption of a Design System supporting consistent, scalable, high-quality digital experiences across web and app platforms. The role strengthens shared design foundations, evolves visual guidelines, and increases the use of reusable components in place of individually built interfaces to improve consistency, reduce duplication, and help product teams deliver more efficiently. The Product Manager will bridge Design and Engineering, ensuring the Design System meets the needs of different product teams and evolves in line with business priorities, user needs, and technical requirements. The Design System is managed as a strategic product, with ownership of its vision, roadmap, governance, and adoption across the wider digital ecosystem. The role is expected to travel to the UK at least once or twice a month. Mindera values empathy, self-organization, clear communication, and a positive attitude. The company encourages AI use to support product management, analysis, and documentation, while emphasizing product thinking, decision-making, and collaboration. Candidates planning to use AI during interviews should be transparent about it. The role may be performed remotely from Portugal. Remote work from other countries depends on the candidate’s location and project. Mindera also has offices in Porto, Aveiro, and Coimbra.

Requirements

Proven experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner.
Experience treating a platform as a product, including managing internal users as customers, adoption, and cross-team dependencies.
Strong collaboration skills with design and engineering teams.
Sufficient technical understanding to discuss theming, tokens, and component architecture.
Familiarity with web and mobile app development contexts, including iOS and Android.
Knowledge of accessibility standards and assistive technologies.
Experience defining success metrics, OKRs, and adoption baselines.
Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, including influencing without direct authority.
Fluent written and spoken English.

Nice To Haves

Experience working on a design system, component library, or internal platform product.

Responsibilities

Drive the long-term vision, adoption, and implementation of the Design System across web and app platforms.
Manage the product roadmap and prioritize the backlog in alignment with core business goals and objectives.
Coordinate design and engineering workstreams to support seamless delivery for internal product teams.
Advocate for the Design System, raising awareness and sharing progress across the business.
Set high customer-experience design standards through high-quality reusable components and patterns.
Embed accessibility guidelines and support for assistive technologies throughout the Design System.
Partner with app teams to ensure technical alignment with Liquid Glass and Edge-to-Edge requirements.
Establish productivity baselines and success metrics linked to business OKRs and the online scorecard.
Support contribution models and governance structures as the Design System evolves.
Build an active, engaged user community through outreach, feedback, and quarterly surveys.