Tech Lead – Shape Our Next-Gen Design System

Do you thrive at the intersection of UI technology and collaboration? Love to bring structure and innovation to a design system that powers multiple teams? We’re on the lookout for a hands-on Tech Lead to head up our Design System team—a critical role in shaping how all our product teams build and share UI components across our platform. 

A bit about CatalystOne 

We’re a leading HCM provider, helping our customers streamline their human capital management processes with cutting-edge solutions. To support this, we’re building a Design System team that will enable our product teams to deliver beautiful, consistent, and user-friendly interfaces across our platform. This isn’t just about creating UI components—it’s about empowering our product teams to build exceptional HCM solutions faster and more efficiently. With you as the Tech Lead and the Design lead by your side, the Design System team will be the backbone that enhances how all our products look, feel, and perform.

What you'll be doing

In this role, you will:

• Own the development and maintenance of our design system using MUI, React, core HTML5/JS/CSS, StoryBook, and micro-frontend patterns.

• Collaborate across teams to ensure consistency in component usage and standards, while allowing flexibility for teams to meet their unique needs.

• Lead the technical decisions, coordinating with product and UX teams to drive innovation, leading to conclusion and adoption.

• Coach and Mentor developers on UI best practices, ensuring we’re always pushing the envelope in terms of design and user experience.

• Help establish this team from scratch—it’s an exciting opportunity to apply your experience, grow with the team, and make an impact from day one.

Why this role is awesome

• Impact: You’ll build and maintain a design system that’s at the core of everything we do. Your work will enable teams across the company to move faster, delivering top-notch products.

• Collaboration: Work closely with developers, designers, and product folks to shape our design strategy. You’ll be at the heart of cross-team collaboration.

• Create Something New: Be part of a new team, bringing your vision and experience to help establish practices that will define how we build UI components for years to come.

• Flexible Work: Enjoy a balance between office and remote work that suits your productivity style. We trust you to work where you feel best.

Who we are looking for

• You have experience leading technical teams, especially in UI component development.

• You have a keen eye and appreciation for design and its quality when implementing it in code.

• You’re hands-on with MUI, React, HTML5/JS/CSS, and have experience working with StoryBook or similar tools.

• Solid experience in CSS architecture and practices, cross browser concerns, layout, current and upcoming standards, responsive/adaptive design, WAI and WCAG.

• You have a strong collaborative mindset and thrive in working closely with multiple and various stakeholders internally.

• You’ve worked with micro-frontend patterns and understands the challenges of creating scalable, reusable components across multiple teams.

• Most importantly, you’re passionate about UI technology and excited to collaborate with UX and other teams to build something great!

• Proactive and Accountable: You’re a person who takes initiative and responsibility for your actions, consistently driving progress, making well-informed decisions and delivering results.

• Credibility and Integrity: You should have a strong sense of integrity and earn trust through reliable and transparent communication. You see the importance of communicating effectively and precisely.

Benefits

As well as your salary, you’ll receive:  

• Time Off That Matters: Enjoy a solid 25 days of vacation per year to recharge and regroup.  
• Financial and Health Security: Benefit from a comprehensive pension and insurance package, plus private healthcare.  
• Your Well-being, Your Way: Take advantage of our wellness contribution to stay on top of your health. 
• Tech Tools for Efficiency: Get the job done with a choice of laptop (mac / PC), mobile phone & subscription, and a home internet allowance. 
• Easy Commuting: Offset your commute costs with our public transport allowance.
• Lunch Made Easy: Skip the hassle and grab a bite at our staff canteen.  
• Flexible Work Setup: Hybrid for your life-work balance.

CatalystOne does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. CatalystOne will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to the specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to CatalystOne on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.

We would like to inform you that all candidates who receive a job offer will be subject to a background check.