Design System Designer

OLX Group; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Development programs and resources

Unlimited therapy and coaching (Better

Speak Up culture

Quarterly engagement surveys

Hybrid working set-up

Job summary

OLX Group is seeking a Senior Product Designer to join our Design System team, working across Real Estate products. You will evolve our design system, enabling designers and engineers to ship with greater consistency, quality and pace across web and app platforms.

You will work in a small, dedicated pod while the system serves multiple tribes, shaping contribution models and applying systems thinking and AI-assisted workflows to deliver coherent experiences and robust token strategies.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and maintaining a design system at scale.
• Experience running or contributing to a contribution model.
• Strong craft and attention to detail.
• Experience with AI-assisted design workflows.
• Strong communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve reusable components, patterns and foundations within our design system, reducing duplication and improving consistency across tribes.
• Define component behaviour, states and variants, working directly with engineering to ship them.
• Run and improve the contribution model: the process and standards that let designers outside the core pod propose and ship components without breaking system coherence.
• Support design work from problem framing through to documentation and handover, using research and feedback from teams to inform decisions.
• Create clear documentation and specifications covering variants, edge cases and usage guidance.
• Collaborate closely with engineers on token strategy and the practical link between Figma and production code.
• Resolve conflicts between a tribe's local need and the system's long-term coherence.
• Work with product design teams to identify gaps and embed stronger systems thinking across products.
• AI-enabled Design Systems: Use AI-assisted tooling as part of your daily workflow, from research through to prototyping and component definition.
• Contribute to making the system well-structured for AI-assisted workflows, including tokens, documentation and reusable patterns.
• Know when to override AI output with your own design judgment, and be able to explain why.

Skills

Design systems

Figma

Cross-functional collaboration

AI-assisted workflows

Tools

Figma

Job description

• We're looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our Design System team, working across our Real Estate products


• You'll play a key role in evolving our design system, helping designers and engineers across the business design and build with greater consistency, quality and pace


• You'll work day to day within a small, dedicated pod, spanning web and app


• But the system serves designers across multiple tribes, each shipping their own product work


• You'll work within our contribution model, helping teams outside the pod propose, adopt and evolve components without fragmenting the system


• We're looking for someone with strong craft, attention to detail, and curiosity about systems thinking and AI-assisted workflows


• You'll help create a coherent product experience across our brands while developing your own design systems practice


• Design and evolve reusable components, patterns and foundations within our design system, reducing duplication and improving consistency across tribes


• Define component behaviour, states and variants, working directly with engineering to ship them


• Run and improve the contribution model: the process and standards that let designers outside the core pod propose and ship components without breaking system coherence


• Support design work from problem framing through to documentation and handover, using research and feedback from teams to inform decisions


• Create clear documentation and specifications covering variants, edge cases and usage guidance


• Collaborate closely with engineers on token strategy and the practical link between Figma and production code


• Resolve conflicts between a tribe's local need and the system's long-term coherence


• Work with product design teams to identify gaps and embed stronger systems thinking across products


• AI-enabled Design Systems:


• Use AI-assisted tooling as part of your daily workflow, from research through to prototyping and component definition


• Contribute to making the system well-structured for AI-assisted workflows, including tokens, documentation and reusable patterns


• Know when to override AI output with your own design judgment, and be able to explain why

Benefits

• Range of development programs and resources designed to help you thrive in a way that suits you


• Unlimited therapy and coaching sessions through our BetterUp partnership


• 'Speak Up' (87% of our employees say they feel able to speak openly and not shy away from difficult conversations)


• Quarterly engagement surveys


• Hybrid working set-up (differs for each role)

Strong technical fluency: you understand how your decisions translate into code, and work with engineers as a peer, not a handoff
Comfortable with AI-assisted tools, with an interest in applying them in practical ways to improve speed, quality and consistency
Strong communicator, able to justify design system decisions to stakeholders who don't share your priorities, and bring other designers along rather than dictate to them
Sharp judgment on trade-offs: when to enforce consistency, when to allow exceptions
Experience running or contributing to a contribution model, or a clear point of view on how you'd build one
Proven experience designing and maintaining a design system at scale, not just documenting one
Experience working in Figma, including component libraries, variables and tokens, alongside experience with built or coded prototypes
A portfolio demonstrating strong product and systems thinking, with evidence of shipped impact, not just documented patterns
Experience working closely with engineers to deliver high-quality, scalable outcomes
Experience or strong interest in AI-assisted design or development workflows