Director, Global Design Language

Prudential Financial • Newark, NJ

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About The Position

The Director of Global Design Language is a strategic leadership role responsible for the creation, curation, and expansion of our global digital design language. This role will be instrumental in ensuring design consistency across our digital platforms, fostering a cohesive brand identity, and driving user experience excellence. Reporting to the VP, Global Brand and Design Language, this role will unify brand and UX design through a shared design language and scalable systems. It plays a critical role in aligning design efforts across business units, ensuring that teams are empowered by a common foundation while maintaining flexibility for regional and functional needs.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in design leadership roles, with a focus on design systems, standards, or brand integration.
• Proven success in defining and scaling design guidelines across large, matrixed organizations.
• Deep understanding of accessibility, usability, and inclusive design principles.
• Experience partnering with cross-functional teams including Marketing, Technology, and Product.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills, including experience presenting to senior leadership.
• Experience managing or influencing multidisciplinary teams (design ops, systems, brand, etc.).

Nice To Haves

• Global or multi-market experience is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive global design language that aligns with Prudential's brand identity and business objectives
• Establish governance frameworks that ensure consistency while enabling creativity and regional flexibility.
• Drive adoption and expansion of our enterprise Design System by aligning teams and advocating for its use across markets and functions.
• Integrate brand and experience, partnering with Marketing, Product, and Technology to ensure cohesive expression across all digital and service environments.
• Operationalize design excellence through tools, templates, and scalable standards that streamline collaboration.
• Foster alignment across UX teams in different business units, acting as a connector and enabler of shared practices and principles.
• Develop and deliver executive-level presentations that clearly articulate the value, impact, and roadmap of design standards to senior stakeholders.
• Advance global design maturity by championing inclusive, scalable, and future-ready design practices.
• Define and track success metrics for design standards adoption, quality, and efficiency across the enterprise.

Benefits

• Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave.
• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).
• Company-funded pension plan.
• Wellness Programs including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.
• Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.
• Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period), after one year of service.
• Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed