Accelerator CX Product Design Lead - Design System (Paris)
Paris, France Permanent Posted on Jun. 03, 2025 Closing on Oct. 04, 2025Le contenu du poste est libellé en anglais car il nécessite de nombreuses interactions avec nos filiales à l’international, l'anglais étant la langue de travail.
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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
Experience:
Proven success in UX/UI for complex solutions and system design: A strong portfolio showcasing end-to-end UX/UI design for complex and heterogeneous digital products including Information Architecture, Interaction Design, UI workflows, UI Kits
Strategic Problem-Solving in Complex Systems: Experience navigating large global scale, interconnected ecosystems, balancing user needs with company business goals to create holistic and scalable systematized design solutions
Leadership in UX/UI Design: Proven experience mentoring and guiding transversal design teams, setting design standards, and driving UX excellence across a wide digital products spectrum
Leadership in Design System management: Deep experience in designing systems and interaction patterns, crafting libraries, documentation and guidelines tailored to complex environments
Soft and technical skills:
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
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Pursue progress. Discover extraordinary.
Progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s discover extraordinary together.
At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.
Watch 'One day at Sanofi' and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion initiatives at sanofi.com
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