Design Systems Advocate (Partnerships)

£80,000 – £100,000 + equity UK | Full-time | Remote-first

We’re a fully remote team of 50+ people building the market-leading design system management platform. zeroheight enables companies to document, maintain, and scale their design systems – all in one central hub. Join us on our mission to enable every product team in the world to ship magical user experiences 10x faster than today.

About the role

At zeroheight, we sit at the centre of the design systems ecosystem. Teams rely on us to document, share, and scale their systems — and the toolchain around us is evolving fast. AI is reshaping how designers and developers work. We need someone who can represent that story loudly and credibly — and who already has the trust of the community to do it. This is a hybrid of two roles — design systems advocate and partner marketing manager.

What you’ll own

• Partnerships & co-marketing: Own the full partner lifecycle: identifying and developing relationships with SaaS tools we integrate with, emerging AI products we can integrate with, and communities where there’s a natural audience overlap with zeroheight. Proactively spot and shape partnership opportunities. You’ll identify co-marketing and integration opportunities beyond existing relationships, knowing when to run with them and when to bring in product — while working closely with the CEO to build and deepen relationships with key partners. Design and execute co-marketing campaigns: joint webinars, co-authored content, newsletter features, event activations, and more. Track and report on co-marketing campaign success.
• Advocacy & thought leadership: Be a credible, visible voice in the design systems community — writing, speaking, and participating in our own and external communities. Create educational content around design systems best practices, zeroheight, and our integrations, with a strong focus on how we support AI-driven product development workflows. Work alongside our Principal Design Systems Advocate to represent zeroheight in the community — dividing and collaborating on content, events, and conversations based on where each of you can add most value. Represent zeroheight at industry conferences and events — proactively identifying opportunities where our audience will be. Engage with communities across social, Slack, forums, and wherever practitioners congregate.
• Commercial & internal support: Join sales and customer success calls to bring domain expertise and help navigate complex design systems challenges to help unblock teams, deepen product understanding, and strengthen relationships. Act as a source of partner and ecosystem intelligence, surfacing use cases, emerging workflows, and unmet needs to support product marketing, product, and commercial teams, and inform partnership strategy.

Who you are

• Essential: You’re a design systems practitioner — you’ve built or maintained one and you think like an engineer or designer. Your credibility comes from having done the work. You have an existing audience: a following, a community presence, or a body of published work that means you’re already known and trusted in the space. You’re commercially minded enough to own partner relationships end-to-end and tie your work to pipeline. You’re a strong communicator — equally at home writing a long-form post, presenting at a conference, or hosting a webinar. You’re energised by AI’s impact on design systems and can speak confidently about where it’s headed.
• Nice to have: Experience in a formal partner marketing role. Familiarity with B2B SaaS go-to-market. Experience working cross-functionally with product, sales, customer success, and marketing in a startup environment.

5 reasons to apply

• You already care about this. Design systems aren’t a job category to you — they’re something you’ve thought and written and argued about.
• You bring your audience with you. We’re not asking you to build from zero.
• You’ll be right at the frontier. If you’re excited about AI and design, this role puts you at the cutting edge.
• You’ll own something real. Full ownership of partner relationships and your advocacy programme, with a direct line to commercial outcomes.
• You’ll be joining a category leader. Practitioners already know who we are — you’ll have a springboard, not a standing start.

Our DEI Statement

At zeroheight we live and breathe our values, building an inclusive and diverse team is what makes us great. We are proud of the culture we’ve created and by embracing individuality we continue to add to our culture. We look to hire the best, give an amazing experience throughout and we don’t discriminate against who or what you are. Our employees are encouraged to be their authentic selves, allowing us to celebrate our differences and learn from one another.