Audience
Recruiter
Senior leadership across design systems, DesignOps and adoption.
What you get
Outcomes tailored to your lens.
- Senior leadership: DS + DesignOps + adoption
- Evidence-first case studies (no fluff)
- Can operate across design + engineering
Proof
Links worth your time.
What to look for (first 30 days)
Immediate, practical outcomes.
- Clear ownership map for tokens, components, docs and releases
- Decision record system created and already used for real changes
- Adoption baseline measured against key surfaces
Signals of senior DS leadership
Signals that the system is working.
- Moves org from component count to adoption rate
- Defines contracts before shipping variants
- Builds governance that reduces friction, not adds it
Leadership signal loop
How the engine actually moves.
Adoption scorecard schema
Concrete artifacts, not slides.
typescript
type AdoptionScorecard = {
surface: string;
systemUsageRate: number;
driftFindings: number;
a11yRegressionCount: number;
timeToShipDays: number;
};Next step
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