Experience Designer Lead Senior - Design Systems

Position Overview

At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. We work together each day to foster an inclusive workplace culture where all of our employees feel respected, valued and have an opportunity to contribute to the company's success. As an Experience Designer Lead Senior within PNC's Digital organization, you will be based in Pittsburgh, PA.

As an Experience Designer Lead Senior on the Design Systems team, you will serve as an individual contributor who provides daily direction, orchestration, and mentorship to a pod of designers maintaining and evolving PNC's largest and most mature design systems. This role combines deep subject matter expertise in design systems with hands-on leadership to improve consistency, scalability, efficiency, and quality across PNC's core digital experiences. You will drive alignment across product design teams, steward governance practices, and guide the creation and adoption of reusable patterns across Figma, code libraries, and supporting documentation.

Key Responsibilities
• Provide daily direction, mentoring, and work orchestration for a pod of eight designers contributing to multiple enterprise design systems
• Lead the evolution of design system libraries, including Figma components and design foundations / tokens, coded component libraries, and supporting documentation
• Drive design system strategy, roadmap, and discovery work, incorporating customer feedback, competitive analysis, and emerging industry trends including exploration of AI-powered workflows and ensuring AI-generated experiences align with design system standards.
• Oversee and facilitate design system governance, including steering committees, design reviews, cross-team alignment sessions, and the evolution of contribution models
• Define and drive alignment to design system standards, patterns, principles, and accessibility requirements
• Coordinate with engineering and accessibility partners to ensure design-to-development collaboration in compliance with standards
• Drive and enable adoption and measure design system effectiveness across teams leveraging office hours, AMAs, and help desk support, serving a broad community of product designers
• Lead and contribute to design reviews and audits to promote consistency and identify opportunities for system improvements
• Facilitate cross-team collaboration and working sessions to connect design efforts and scale system usage across products

PNC is an in-office company that fosters a supportive culture where employees can thrive and achieve balance. We encourage candidates to connect with their recruiter and hiring manager to understand workplace expectations and ensure the role aligns with their goals.

PNC will not provide sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position.

Job Description

• Influences the process and transforms most complex tasks into intuitive, accessible and easy-to-use designs through the entire experience lifecycle, from the first-time user to the expert.
• Develops and recommends the discovery techniques of customer and business needs through contextual inquiries, and generative and quantitative research. Uncovers customer latent needs and creates vision to meet those needs.
• Drives and establishes the design direction and strategy. Leads others to execute visual, information, interaction and service design elements of the initiative that meets business and customer needs and delights customers. Communicates the initiative and product to others, including senior management, through user journeys, storyboards, prototypes, wireframes and other materials.
• Sets the direction for usability of new and existing products, makes adjustments to align with shifting customer expectations.
• Develops research methods and strategies, conduct studies, and present findings that will inform improvements in the customer experience.
• Coaches and mentors junior staff; Assists management team in training new staff.

PNC Employees take pride in our reputation and to continue building upon that we expect our employees to be:

• Customer Focused - Knowledgeable of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and able to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
• Managing Risk - Assessing and effectively managing all of the risks associated with their business objectives and activities to ensure they adhere to and support PNC's Enterprise Risk Management Framework.

Qualifications

Successful candidates must demonstrate appropriate knowledge, skills, and abilities for a role. Listed below are skills, competencies, work experience, education, and required certifications/licensures needed to be successful in this position.

Preferred Skills
Agile Web Development, Business Requirements Documentation (BRD), Digital User Experience, IT Architecture, JavaScript, Wireframing

Competencies
Business Analytics, Creativity, Design Thinking, Effective Communications, Graphic Visualization, Group Facilitation, Product Development Life Cycle, Requirements Analysis, Solutions Development, User Experience Design, User Interface Design

Work Experience
Roles at this level typically require a university / college degree. Higher level education such as a Masters degree, PhD, or certifications is desirable. Industry relevant experience is typically 8+ years. Specific certifications are often required. In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered.

Education
Bachelors

Certifications
No Required Certification(s)

Licenses
No Required License(s)

Benefits

PNC offers a comprehensive range of benefits to help meet your needs now and in the future. Depending on your eligibility, options for full-time employees include: medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature), dental and vision options; employee and spouse/child life insurance; short and long-term disability protection; 401(k) with PNC match, pension and stock purchase plans; dependent care reimbursement account; back-up child/elder care; adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement; educational assistance, including select programs fully paid; a robust wellness program with financial incentives.

In addition, PNC generally provides the following paid time off, depending on your eligibility: maternity and/or parental leave; up to 11 paid holidays each year; 9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law; between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service.

To learn more about these and other programs, including benefits for full time and part-time employees, visit pncthrive.com.

Disability Accommodations Statement

If an accommodation is required to participate in the application process, please contact us via email at AccommodationRequest@pnc.com. Please include "accommodation request" in the subject line title and be sure to include your name, the job ID, and your preferred method of contact in the body of the email. Emails not related to accommodation requests will not receive responses. Applicants may also call 877-968-7762 and say "Workday" for accommodation assistance. All information provided will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

At PNC we foster an inclusive and accessible workplace. We provide reasonable accommodations to employment applicants and qualified individuals with a disability who need an accommodation to perform the essential functions of their positions.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

PNC provides equal employment opportunity to qualified persons regardless of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other categories protected by law.

This position is subject to the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) and, for any registered role, the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 (SAFE Act) and/or the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), which prohibit the hiring of individuals with certain criminal history.

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