About the Role
- Head of Design Systems joining the Brand and Design team.
- Mission to ensure every Doctolib product surface is built on a consistent, high-quality design foundation.
- Ownership of Oxygen, Doctolib's design system, which acts as the brand identity delivery mechanism and critical infrastructure for design quality in an AI-first development environment.
- Direct impact on the experience of more than 90 million patients and 400,000 healthcare professionals, working alongside over 50 designers and engineers.
- Focus on building innovative products and features to improve the daily lives of care teams and patients.
- Location: Paris or Berlin.
- Work setup: Hybrid work setup (up to 2 remote days per week).
- Employment type: Permanent, full-time.
- Start date: As soon as possible.
What You'll Be Doing
- Set the multi-year vision and roadmap for Oxygen, connecting engineering, design, and brand teams.
- Translate system health into business impact and own the investment strategy for the teams, tools, and governance that support it.
- Establish cross-functional governance across Design, Product, Engineering, and Brand teams, defining contribution models, change management processes, and the standards other teams are expected to follow.
- Own design output quality across the product, ensuring that AI-generated interfaces are coherent, consistent, and on-brand at every touchpoint across the company.
- Define and drive cross-organizational adoption, measuring adoption rate, component coverage, and contribution velocity, and connecting those metrics to product team speed and quality.
- Manage and grow a team of design system designers and engineers, setting career paths, a high bar for craft, and hiring for the roles the system needs next.
What You'll Bring
10+ years of experience in product design or design systems, with a proven track record of scaling a mature, complex system across multiple product teams or lines of business.
Engineering fluency regarding the technical architecture of a design system, how platform teams operate, and the latest best practices in AI-first software engineering as it relates to design systems.
Senior stakeholder management skills, with the ability to negotiate priorities with leadership at Director level and above across large, distributed organizations, and drive change management at scale.
A data-informed and outcome-oriented approach, measuring system health in real metrics such as adoption rate, handoff defect rate, and contribution velocity to connect numbers to product quality and business outcomes.
Experience in a regulated, enterprise, or healthcare-adjacent context where accessibility (WCAG), localization (i18n, RTL), and multi-market constraints are critical to design systems.
Fluency in English.
Nice to Have
Experience owning large-scale change management programs across cross-functional organizations.
Proficiency in additional European languages, such as French, German, or Italian.
Compensation & Benefits
- A Deutschlandticket (Germany-wide public transport pass) fully paid for by Doctolib.
- 28 vacation days + 1 additional day for each full calendar year of employment (up to a maximum of 30 days).
- Work from abroad for up to 10 days per year thanks to flexibility days policy.
- Company health insurance with supplementary benefits through Allianz.
- Company pension scheme (bAV) through Allianz with an employer subsidy of 40% (15% within the probationary period).
- The Doctolib Parent Care program, which includes one month additional parental leave.
- Enrollment in Doctolib's long-term employee value sharing plan called DoctoGrowth.
- Free mental health and coaching services through Moka.care.
- Subsidized sports membership through Urban Sports Club.
- A flexible workplace policy offering both hybrid and office-based modes.
- Subsidized meal benefit, alongside healthy snacks and a regular breakfast buffet.
- Package for caregivers and workers with disabilities, including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support.
- Relocation support in case of international mobility.
- Access to the best AI tools for coding, development and dedicated training.
Interview Process
- Recruiter Interview.
- Portfolio Review.
- Design System Live Case.
- Behavioral Interview.
- At least one reference check.
About Doctolib
- Solutions are built on a single fully cloud-native platform that supports web and mobile app interfaces, multiple languages, and is adapted to country and healthcare specialty requirements.
- Tech stack is composed of Rails, TypeScript, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and React Native.
- Ethical leverage of AI across products to empower patients and health professionals.