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Design Systems UX Senior Associate

Dallas, TX

We are PMG

Named Ad Age Best Places to Work for 10 years in a row and Fast Company Best Workplaces for Innovators since 2022, PMG is a global independent marketing services and technology company that seeks to inspire people and brands that anything is possible. Driven by shared success, PMG leverages business strategy and transformation, creative, media, and insights—as well as its proprietary operating system, Alli—to deliver cutting-edge digital solutions and innovative media strategies.

Our team comprises over 900 employees globally, and our work for ambitious brands like Apple, Nike, Sephora, Experian, Therabody, Best Western Hotels & Resorts, Creed Fragrances, BNY, Intuit, CKE Restaurants, Travelex, and Whole Foods spans 85+ countries.

Who You Will Be Working With

At PMG, our UI/UX team is focused on creating experiences that are as thoughtful and intuitive as they are beautiful. Central to this effort is our design system, the backbone of consistent, scalable, and accessible digital experiences across our enterprise SaaS platform. We believe robust design systems are critical infrastructure that enables teams to deliver exceptional user experiences efficiently and at scale. Our focus is on building systems that bridge design and development, ensuring every component is accessible, user friendly, and maintainable.

You'll collaborate primarily with front-end engineers, product teams, and fellow designers as the technical bridge between design intent and production reality. Your focus will be on architecting scalable component systems, establishing design-to-code workflows, and ensuring every element of our design system serves both designer efficiency and developer experience.

Beyond component creation, you'll drive the evolution of our design system methodology, establish governance that scales with our growth, and implement measurement strategies that prove the system's business impact. You'll experiment with cutting-edge design systems tooling, contribute to the broader design systems community, and help define what enterprise-level design systems look like in 2025 and beyond.

As our Design Systems UX Senior Associate, if you're passionate about systematic design, technical collaboration, and building the infrastructure that enables great experiences at scale, this is where you'll make your most significant impact.

What You Will Do

  • Shape user interfaces at scale by building and maintaining a comprehensive library of reusable, accessible components and patterns.
  • Define, manage, and evolve design tokens as the single source of truth for design decisions. Ensure tokens are properly implemented across platforms and integrated into both design and development workflows.
  • Lead the integration and maintenance of design system components in Storybook, ensuring comprehensive documentation, interactive examples, and seamless developer adoption.
  • Partner deeply with front-end engineers as a technical collaborator, not just a handoff partner. Review code implementations, contribute to technical discussions about component architecture, and ensure design system APIs are developer-friendly. 
  • Understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript fundamentals is essential.
  • Establish and manage a clear governance model for the design system, including contribution processes, versioning, and documentation standards.
  • Articulate the rationale behind design system decisions, from component architecture and design tokens to interaction patterns.
  • Create and maintain clear, comprehensive documentation for design system components, including usage guidelines and accessibility best practices.
  • Conduct research with internal design and development teams to understand their needs and ensure the design system effectively supports their workflows.
  • Track design system adoption, usage, and health through analytics, and showcase impact on consistency, velocity, and costs with dashboards, reports, and KPIs.
  • Leverage technology and automation to improve design system workflows and maintain a cutting-edge toolset.

What You Will Bring

  • 3+ years of dedicated design systems experience in a role that was 100% focused on enterprise-level design systems. 
  • Must have experience scaling a system across multiple product teams and managing system architecture, not just contributing components.
  • Advanced proficiency in Figma, including deep experience with libraries, variants, auto-layout, and prototyping.
  • Solid understanding of front-end technology fundamentals (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) and experience with build tools, package management, and version control (Git). 
  • Ability to read and review code, contribute to technical discussions, and understand the implications of design decisions on performance and maintainability.
  • Deep knowledge of accessibility standards (ADA/WCAG) and practical experience applying them to component design.
  • Experience working directly with engineers and familiarity with component development workflows and tools like Storybook.
  • Demonstrated ability to think systematically about component relationships, API design, and system architecture. 
  • Experience making decisions about when to create new components vs. extending existing ones, managing component complexity, and balancing flexibility with consistency.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate design rationale to cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

What We Offer

  • Professional Development: Take advantage of our learning and development programs, mentorship opportunities, and career advancement support.

  • Generous Time Off: Enjoy generous paid time off and holiday allowances to recharge and spend time with loved ones.

  • Parental Leave: We provide paid parental leave to support your family during important life events.

  • Retirement & Pension Plans: Plan for your future with competitive retirement or pension programs, including contribution matching.

  • Fertility and Family Support: Access fertility benefits for all team members and their spouses.

  • Healthcare: Coverage and support for everyday medical expenses and routine care, tailored by geography.

  • Pet Insurance: Protect your pet's health and your finances.

  • Lifestyle Spending Accounts: Enjoy 100% company-funded accounts to promote healthy habits and well-being.

  • Commuter Benefits: Access support for travel and commuting needs, where available.

  • Annual Bonus: All employees are eligible for an annual bonus.

  • Volunteering Opportunities: Receive 8 give-back hours to volunteer in your local communities.

  • AI Enterprise License: Access AI Enterprise accounts and participate in weekly AI training sessions to empower and ensure AI safety.

Benefits vary by country, location, and geography to reflect local laws, norms, and expectations.

What Sets Us Apart

Being part of PMG means joining a company culture that’s unmatched in digital. We're dedicated to working hard to serve our employees and clients, delivering value, results, and innovation—which often requires true grit and agility. We believe in taking care of ourselves and each other to continuously improve in every way.

In alignment with our core values to be inclusive and always change for the better, PMG is committed to creating a more diverse and inclusive culture, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe that we only change for the better by bringing diverse perspectives to our company. PMG recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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