Design system Lead Getinge, Solna

With a passion for life

Join our diverse teams of passionate people and a career that allows you to develop both personally and professionally. At Getinge we exist to make life-saving technology accessible for more people. To make a true difference for our customers – and to save more lives, we need team players, forward thinkers, and game changers.

Are you looking for an inspiring career? You just found it.

About this opportunity  

Getinge Critical care in Solna is an inspiring workplace where we develop and produce advanced medical devices such as ventilators, anesthesia machines, intracortical balloon pumps, ECMO machines and advanced hemodynamic monitors.  We are proud of our products and our skilled colleagues that contributes to bring lifesaving solutions to the market every day.

We are now looking for a talented designer to lead the vision, development and maintenance of our Figma-based design system for medical devices. This role includes both hands-on design in Figma and strategic work to ensure consistency, usability, and efficiency. As a Systems Lead, you should have experience contributing to lower-level decision making, direct broader strategy, and observe when narrower efforts conflict with or distract from broader goals.

Our GUIDE design system is used by 12 designers across four sites in Europe and India, supporting the development of world-leading med-tech devices in intensive care and surgery. The system includes coded UI components, icons, typography, colors, and physical touchscreen specifications—recognized with an iF Design Award (GUIDE Design System).

What you will do

• Own and evolve the design system – continuously improving its structure, guidelines, components, and documentation while acting as the primary point of contact for design system-related queries and requests.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers, product managers, and developers to ensure the design system meets the needs of the product while maintaining consistency across the application.
• Ensure adoption and consistency – Establish and enforce design system guidelines, principles, and best practices across the organization to ensure consistent application across different products.
• Lead a community of design system users from around the organization to gather feedback share learnings and co-create improvements.
• Provide design leadership and guidance to teams around using shared patterns and identify opportunities to create new patterns and components.
• Present the system’s mission, library, and process to other groups, including product managers, content specialists, QA, and other design and development teams throughout the enterprise. 
• Stay updated on Figma features, design system trends, and industry best practices to continuously enhance the design system.

This position is based in Solna and is eligible for a hybrid setup in decision with your manager.

You will bring

To be successful in this position, we believe that you have the following qualifications.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Interaction design, Human Factors Engineering or a related field.
• A strong portfolio that highlights design systems you have created or largely contributed to
• Experience in design systems and principles, UX/UI design, and Figma
• Comfortable leading cross-functional collaboration with designers, developers, and product teams.
• Skilled in community-building and facilitation, bringing designers together to share knowledge and improve the system.
• Detail-oriented, with a strong sense of consistency and usability.
• Experienced with physical interface design or interested in expanding your expertise into that area.
• Strong communication skills

In addition to your technical skills, we highly value your personality. At Getinge we see ourselves as proactive and self-driven in learning and contributing to the continued development of our products and our organization's capabilities.  We are Team Players, Forward Thinkers and Game Changers.

We think you will thrive in a high-expectation environment and have an interest in our products.

Why join us?

Getinge offers a job in a safe and informal work environment, where we appreciate close team collaboration. We keep an open dialogue between leaders and employees, as well as between teams. We are focused on developing people, and together we will create a plan for learning and competence development when you start your career with us. 

We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, including wellness allowances, generous family benefits and joint company activities. Everything to ensure we support your well-being and goals.

Application  

Applications will be reviewed continually, and we therefore recommend sending us your application as soon as possible. We kindly ask you to submit your application in our recruitment system by clicking the "apply button". Due to GDPR regulations we do not accept applications via e-mail.

Do you have a portfolio? We are very excited to see that, so please submit it as well in your application.

If you have any questions regarding the role, please contact Hiring Manager Markus Kihlén at markus.kihlen@getinge.com or Talent Acquisition Partner  Paulsson at emma.paulsson@getinge.com

We look forward to receiving your application. We hope you will join us on our journey to become the world’s most desired MedTech company. 

About us 

With a firm belief that every person and community should have access to the best possible care, Getinge provides hospitals and life science institutions with products and solutions aiming to improve clinical results and optimize workflows. The offering includes products and solutions for intensive care, cardiovascular procedures, operating rooms, sterile reprocessing and life science. Getinge employs over 12,000 people worldwide and the products are sold in more than 135 countries.  

Reasonable accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. 

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