Senior Design Systems Lead Suitcase & Accessibility

Perk; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Perk is seeking a Senior Design Systems Designer to own the Suitcase design system for web and mobile. You will collaborate with front-end engineers, content designers and product designers to ensure a complete, accessible and distributable system across surfaces, including AI-enabled tooling.

You will define typography, token architecture, and foundations while driving component adoption, governance, and parity with code.

Qualifications

• Strong product design experience designing and scaling design systems for web and mobile.
• Expertise in typography, colour, layout, motion, and micro-interactions.
• Judgement on when to add new components vs reuse existing ones.
• Experience designing and maintaining token systems with naming, theming, documentation, and Figma-to-code workflows.

Responsibilities

• Set the direction for Suitcase with design and engineering leadership, turning vision into a roadmap.
• Own the visual language, token architecture, and foundations of Suitcase.
• Work with content design and localisation on content tokens for language requirements.
• Design, document, and refine components with full states, variants, platform coverage, and usage guidance.
• Write component specs for AI prototyping tools to read and use real components and tokens.
• Align components with WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standards and ensure conformance in new builds.
• Define adoption metrics, component health, accessibility, and parity between design and code with eng teams.
• Manage the governance model for components between experimental and core layers.
• Champion Suitcase across Builders and coach designers and engineers on usage and contribution.

Skills

Typography

Design systems

Token systems

WCAG 2.2 AA

AI prototyping tools

Storybook

Figma-to-code

HTML/CSS/JS

Localization/content tokens

Roadmapping

Tools

Storybook

Code Connect

MCP tooling

Job description

Perk is seeking a Senior Design Systems Designer to own the Suitcase design system for web and mobile. You will collaborate with front-end engineers, content designers and product designers to ensure a complete, accessible and distributable system across surfaces, including AI-enabled tooling.

You will define typography, token architecture, and foundations while driving component adoption, governance, and parity with code.