Director, Global Design Language

Overview

About The Role 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.

Job Classification Technology - Agile, Delivery, & Product

• 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.

• You’re a systems thinker who brings clarity to complexity and thrives on building scalable frameworks.
• You’re passionate about design governance and know how to balance structure with creative freedom.
• You’re a connector—able to bridge Brand, UX, and technology to create cohesive, high-quality experiences.
• You’re a strategic communicator who can influence without authority and build coalitions across functions.
• You’re confident presenting to executive audiences and skilled at translating design strategy into business impact.
• You’re a multiplier who develops people, builds systems that scale, and leaves a lasting impact.
• You’re skilled at setting a fast pace, while ensuring that the details don’t get dropped. We want to ensure we build a robust system but need to show fast progress.

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

Prudential is required by state specific laws to include the salary range for this role when hiring a resident in applicable locations. The salary range for this role is from $ to $. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills.

• 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…