Senior Design Systems Designer — Lead Suitcase UI

TravelPerk; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Perk is seeking a Senior Design Systems Designer to lead Suitcase, its design system spanning web and mobile. You will own visual language, token architecture, and foundations, collaborating with frontend engineers and product designers to maintain high-quality design as a default.

You’ll ensure components meet WCAG 2.2 AA standards, document states and usage, and drive governance for component adoption across teams. This role requires in-person presence near our hubs.

Qualifications

• Strong product design experience for web and mobile.
• Deep grasp of typography, colour, layout, motion, and micro-interactions.
• Judgment on when a new component is needed and when to reuse existing ones.
• Experience designing token systems and enabling design-to-code workflows.

Responsibilities

• Set the direction for Suitcase with leadership, turning vision into a roadmap and tracking progress.
• Own the visual language, token architecture, and foundations of Suitcase: typography, colour, space, motion, and interaction states.
• Collaborate with content design and localisation on content tokens to match language requirements.
• Design, document, and refine components with states, variants, platform coverage, and usage guidance.
• Write component specs readable by AI prototyping tools using real Suitcase components and tokens.
• Bring components to WCAG 2.2 AA and bake accessibility into new components.
• Define adoption and health metrics, accessibility, and parity with coding.
• Run governance for components between experimental and core layers.
• Champion Suitcase across Builders and coach designers and engineers on usage and contribution.

Skills

Design systems

Typography

Color & layout

Tokens & theming

Figma-to-code

Tools

Storybook

Code Connect

MCP tooling

HTML/CSS/JS

Job description

Perk is seeking a Senior Design Systems Designer to lead Suitcase, its design system spanning web and mobile. You will own visual language, token architecture, and foundations, collaborating with frontend engineers and product designers to maintain high-quality design as a default.

You’ll ensure components meet WCAG 2.2 AA standards, document states and usage, and drive governance for component adoption across teams. This role requires in-person presence near our hubs.