Job title: CX Product Design Lead - Design System

• Location: Paris

• Job type: Permanent, Full time

• Hybrid: 3 days onsite

About the job

Elements is Sanofi’s global design system—our source of truth for building consistent, accessible, and scalable digital experiences. Expanding from marketing-led capabilities to product- and AI-driven solutions, it supports everything from internal tools to patient platforms. In this role, you’ll help shape and evolve Elements to meet the needs of teams across Sanofi.

As Product Design Lead focusing on Design System, you will drive the standardization of user-centered digital experiences at global scale. This role demands deep expertise in user experience, system and interaction design, accessibility and Human-Centered Design methodologies to craft intuitive, efficient, and engaging digital solutions. Success of your role resides in your ability to speed up product operations while unleashing and supporting product design innovation within the Product Design community. Collaborating closely with Product teams, you will shape scalable solutions that align with digital product objectives and long-term strategy, ensuring systematized, scalable and seamless experiences across the Sanofi digital ecosystem.

As part of the Product Design Foundations team, you will play a key role in fostering a user-centric design culture, adapting to evolving needs, and championing design excellence within the broader Consumer Experience & Design organization, and more generally contributing to the Product Design maturity growth at Sanofi. Your ease of engaging with a variety of stakeholders starting with engineering will help you navigate your cross-functional journey and drive alignment towards achieving our collective goals.

At Sanofi, we’re committed to providing the next-gen healthcare solutions that patients and customers need. It’s about harnessing data insights and leveraging AI responsibly to search deeper and solve sooner than ever before. Join our CX Product Design Foundations team as a Product Design Lead and help make it happen.

Main responsibilities:

• Focus on Product Needs: Use feedback and research to shape designs that solve real problems and make work easier for Sanofi products, positioning Elements as a no-miss in product strategy

• Design Explorations on Human Centered Design: Create and refine rapid design prototypes to explore ideas, test with product teams, and optimize designs before development

• Improve Interaction and Usability: Design smooth UI patterns and UI components that help users get things done efficiently and help product maximize their Return-On-Investment

• Strive for Consistency and Scalability: Lead Sanofi's Elements Design System Design strategy and execution to ensure a cohesive, intuitive, and seamless experience across all digital products

• Collaborate with cross-functional Teams: Work closely with product owners, engineers, and stakeholders to bring ideas to life and ensure standards compliance and continuously refine Design System relevance

• Contribute to Community of Practice Growth: Elevate Sanofi Product Design Standards within operations through product design team training and mentoring

About you

• Mastery of Iterative Design and Agile: Deep understanding of Lean UX, Human-Centered Design and Agile methodologies, ensuring continuous improvement, impactful design execution and implementation

• Mastery of Figma and UX/UI Tools: Advanced skills in Figma for UI component industrialization and library governance, prototyping, and seamless collaboration with engineering teams

• Proven adaptability in fast context-shifting: Inspires and empowers product teams focusing on various ecosystems from Research & Development to Marketing, navigates complexity with clarity, and adapts to ambiguity with a problem-solving mindset

• Strong Communication and Stakeholder Management: Ability to translate and evangelize complex concepts into clear design solutions, advocate for user needs, and collaborate effectively with leadership, product teams, and engineers

Why choose us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team

• Play an instrumental part in creating best practice and raising impact within the entire Sanofi Digital value chain

• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally

• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave

• Evolve in Sanofi's Digital Accelerator in Paris, where product teams are creating and delivering the next generation of digital, data, and AI-driven products to transform healthcare

“Driving change is not only about shooting for an end goal. It’s a powerful mix of vision and empowerment fuelled by trust, honesty and authenticity. It’s about navigating uncertainty by staying humble, feeling comfortable to test, learn, fail, support and listen to each other to craft and maximise the impact together. If it rings a bell, I'm truly excited to hear more from you on how you can contribute shaping our next chapter."

Léa GIEZEK, Product Design Foundations Manager