Position Details
About this role
Lead the Upstream Studios engineering function focused on Pajamas Design System and the GitLab docs platform. You’ll shape engineering practice, guide architecture decisions, and partner with Product Design, Technical Writing, Localization, and Engineering to deliver scalable design system and documentation solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers
- Define and build the engineering practice within Upstream Studios
- Guide architecture decisions for the design system and docs site
- Advocate for engineering quality (technical debt, accessibility, security, reliability)
- Collaborate with Product Design and Technical Writing to translate needs into scalable technical solutions
Technical Overview
Hands-on technical leadership in design systems (tokens, components, accessibility) and documentation platforms with experience in Git, docs-as-code, and Hugo. Focus areas include performance, reliability, infrastructure, and localization across a multilingual product.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is an experienced engineering leader with deep design systems expertise who can lead a small, high-impact team and partner across Product Design, Technical Writing, Localization, and Engineering. They bring a track record building scalable design systems, tokens, and multilingual documentation platforms while driving architectural decisions and governance.
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Required Skills
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Deal Breakers
No leadership or people-management experience, No proven design systems expertise, No experience with design tokens or component architecture
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