Frontend Team Lead - “Vibe” Design System

Description

We are monday.com, a global software company transforming how businesses run. Our product suite can adapt to the needs of diverse industries and use cases within one powerful platform, empowering ~245,000 customers worldwide to reimagine how work gets done, drive greater efficiency, and scale like never before.

With over 2,500 employees across the globe, we grow by prioritizing transparency and knowledge sharing. We care about the impact you make, not the hours you clock, so we encourage initiative, ownership, and fresh thinking. We back our people with flexible work, wellness and mental health support, and a work environment built on collaboration.

We’re looking for an experienced Frontend Team Lead to own the technical vision and roadmap of Vibe, grow and mentor a high‑performing engineering team, and partner with Design and Product to push monday.com’s UI to a new industry standard.

Vibe is monday.com’s open‑source design system and component library. It powers every pixel of our platform and enables thousands of internal and external developers to ship beautiful, accessible, and consistent user experiences at lightning speed. As a strategic pillar of monday.com’s rapid product growth, Vibe marries engineering excellence with world‑class design and partners closely with our leading designers to redefine how design and engineering collaborate.

About The Role

• Lead & Grow the Team – Manage, coach, and inspire 3-5 frontend engineers; foster a culture of ownership, craftsmanship, and learning.
• Own the Design System – Drive the evolution of Vibe’s React‑based component library, foundations (colors, typography, motion), and tooling.
• Champion Developer Experience – Build and refine DX tooling (Storybook, testing frameworks, linters, codemods) that make adopting Vibe effortless for thousands of developers.
• Collaborate Across Functions – Work daily with Product and Design, partnering hand‑in‑hand with Vibe’s principal designers to shape design workflows, evolve our Figma libraries, and close the gap between design and code.
• Reinvent Design Workflows – Introduce processes and tooling that empower designers to iterate rapidly, provide instant visual feedback, and deliver pixel‑perfect specs to engineering.
• Supercharge UI with AI – Leverage monday.com’s internal and external Model Context Protocol (MCPs) to embed AI‑powered assistants for code generation, visual diffing, accessibility checks, and automated documentation.
• Set Quality & Accessibility Standards – Ensure performance, a11y, and cross‑browser reliability are first‑class citizens in every component release.
• Grow the Community – Encourage internal and external contributions, maintain documentation, and advocate for Vibe at meetups, blog posts, and open‑source channels.

AI at Vibe

Vibe is pioneering AI‑augmented UI development. By integrating cutting‑edge MCPs with our design‑to‑code pipeline, we automate repetitive tasks, surface real‑time insights, and boost developer productivity. As Team Lead, you’ll own the roadmap for these capabilities—identifying high‑impact opportunities, experimenting with new models, and shipping AI features that delight users and contributors alike.

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands‑on frontend development, 2+ years leading or mentoring engineers.
• Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, and modern build tooling (Webpack, Vite).
• Proven experience building, maintaining, or heavily using a design system or large‑scale component library.
• A strong eye for UI/UX details, accessibility best practices, and performance optimization.
• Solid understanding of developer experience principles and testing methodologies (Jest, Testing Library, Storybook).
• Comfortable partnering with designers in Figma and translating design tokens into code.
• Curiosity for generative AI and experience integrating AI/ML tooling into developer workflows.

Nice to Have

• Contributions to open‑source design‑system or frontend tooling projects.
• Experience with theming, CSS‑in‑JS solutions, micro‑frontends, or monorepos.
• Hands‑on work with LLMs, vector stores, or AI code assistants (e.g.,Cursor,  GitHub Copilot).
• Familiarity with analytics and instrumentation to measure component health and adoption.

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Frontend Team Lead - “Vibe” Design System

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