Mobile Lead - Design Systems Team

Mobile Lead - Design Systems Team at Philips

About the Role

Join Philips Design's innovative Design Systems team as a Mobile Lead, where you'll shape the future of mobile experiences across Philips' product ecosystem. In this hybrid technical-strategic role, you'll lead the development and evolution of our SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose toolkits that power mobile applications throughout the organization.

As Mobile Lead, you'll combine hands-on development expertise with product management acumen, driving both the technical excellence and strategic direction of our mobile design system components. You'll be the key liaison between our design systems team, mobile development community, and business units, ensuring our toolkits meet real-world needs while maintaining consistency and quality.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Development

• Lead the architecture, development, and maintenance of SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose design system toolkits
• Hands-on coding and contribution to toolkit codebase, setting technical standards and best practices
• Collaborate with mobile developers across the organization to implement, expand, and optimize toolkit components
• Ensure toolkit performance, accessibility, and platform-specific guideline compliance

Product Management & Strategy

• Define roadmap and priorities for mobile toolkit development based on business unit needs and industry trends
• Gather requirements from stakeholders and translate them into actionable development tasks
• Manage toolkit versioning, releases, and documentation to support seamless adoption
• Monitor toolkit usage and performance metrics to drive continuous improvement

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with visual designers to ensure design-to-code fidelity and seamless handoff processes
• Coordinate with other toolkit developers (web, desktop) to maintain consistency across platforms
• Serve as primary point of contact for business units implementing mobile design system components
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and best practices across mobile development teams

Team Leadership & Communication

• Mentor and guide mobile developers in design system implementation and best practices
• Present toolkit updates, roadmaps, and technical decisions to stakeholders and leadership
• Foster a collaborative culture between design systems team and mobile development community

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of mobile development experience with demonstrated expertise in both iOS (Swift/SwiftUI) and Android (Kotlin/Jetpack Compose) development
• Proven experience building and maintaining component libraries or design systems for mobile platforms
• Strong understanding of mobile UI/UX principles, accessibility standards, and platform-specific design guidelines
• Experience with product management fundamentals including roadmap planning, stakeholder management, and requirements gathering
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams
• Leadership experience mentoring developers or leading technical initiatives

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with design systems at scale in large organizations
• Background in enterprise mobile application development
• Familiarity with design tools (Figma, Sketch) and design-to-development workflows
• Knowledge of CI/CD processes and automated testing for mobile component libraries
• Experience with cross-platform development frameworks
• Understanding of healthcare or regulated industry mobile development requirements

What We Offer

• Opportunity to impact mobile experiences across Philips' diverse product portfolio
• Collaborative, design-forward culture with access to world-class design and engineering teams
• Flexible working arrangements with modern offices in Amsterdam and Eindhoven
• Professional development opportunities and access to cutting-edge tools and technologies
• Competitive compensation package and comprehensive benefits

Location

This role is based in either Amsterdam or Eindhoven, Netherlands, with hybrid working options available. We do not offer relocation assistance for this position.

How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

About Philips
We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.

Over 125 years ago, Frederik and Gerard Philips started a small light bulb company in Eindhoven. Little did they realize that it would become a global force of innovation, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide. But it did.

Today, Philips is a world leading health technology company with a vision to make life better for people worldwide through meaningful innovation. Making good on this promise depends on our passionate, inspirational, collaborative and diverse team.

We have over 80,000+ brilliant people around the world but are always looking for more. Like-minded, motivated, focused minds to join us in creating a healthier, more connected society while transforming themselves personally and professionally.

Working at Philips is more than a job. It's an experience filled with unexpected moments that will transform you in lasting and positive ways. Help us improve the world for the better while building a career that no one could have planned for. Even you.