Senior Experience Design Lead, Design Systems

Company Description

McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries that serve 70 million customers daily. We continue to operate from a position of strength. Our updated growth strategy is focused on staying ahead of what our customers want and realizing further growth potential. Our relentless ambition is why McDonald’s remains one of the world’s leading corporations after almost 70 years. Joining McDonald's means thinking big and preparing for a career that can have influence around the world.

At McDonald’s, we see every day as a chance to create positive impact. We lead through our values centered on inclusivity, service, integrity, community and family. From support of Ronald McDonald House Charities to our Youth Opportunity project and sustainability initiatives, our values keep us dedicated to using our scale for good: good for our customers, people, industry and planet. We also offer a broad range of outstanding benefits including a sabbatical program, tuition assistance and flexible work arrangements.

Job Description

As part of the Global Experience Design team within McDonald’s Customer Experience (MCX), you’ll help lead the evolution and implementation of our multi-sensory design language across omnichannel experiences built for billions of customers and restaurant team members around the world.

You’ll be a critical player in the newly established Foundations group within XD (consisting of accessibility, design systems, and UX writing teams), reporting to the group director and collaborating closely with other leaders throughout the product and design organization.

Benefits eligible: Yes
Bonus eligible: Yes
Long term incentive eligible: Yes
The expected salary range for this role is $149,260-$190,310
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we may also consider your experience, and other job-related factors.

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, you’ll have deep, demonstrable experience in the following areas:

• Elevating the quality of experiences through your industry-leading expertise in visual style, interaction patterns, and emerging design/technology trends
• Defining what best-in-class experiences look like for designers, engineers, and product managers, and showing them how to get there through prototyping
• Regularly auditing existing experiences to improve on or incorporate components, patterns, and tools that scale consistency and efficiency
• Emphasizing the customer and business value of inclusive interfaces and experiences that incorporate WCAG, Apple HIG, and Material Design best practices across surfaces and tech stacks
• Managing complexity and ambiguity at a global scale while leading through craft in partnership with leaders at all levels and across all areas of the business
• Significant technical understanding of the opportunities and constraints of web and mobile applications and the modern code frameworks behind them (e.g., Next.js, Kotlin, SwiftUI, and more)

You’ll knock our socks off if you have:

• Demonstrable experience turning design visions into functional expressions through advanced functional prototyping
• Experience working in a design system that’s built for customers and enterprise users
• Worked for a global brand that designs omnichannel commerce experiences that include the built environment

To have obtained these skills, you likely have closer to a decade of experience than a few years, but we encourage you to apply if these abilities match yours. 

Additional Information

Benefits eligible: This position offers health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, adoption assistance program, educational assistance program, flexible ways of working, and time off policies (including sick leave, parental leave, and vacation/PTO). Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on job classification and length of employment. 

Bonus eligible: This position is eligible for a bonus, calculated based on individual and company performance.

Long term Incentive eligible: This position is eligible for stock or other equity grants pursuant to McDonald’s long-term incentive plan.

McDonald’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our workforce. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. McDonald’s provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities as part of the application or hiring process or to perform the essential functions of their job. If you need assistance accessing or reading this job posting or otherwise feel you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process, please contact mcdhrbenefits@us.mcd.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

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