Senior Design Systems Lead: Suitcase, Accessibility & AI

AmTrav; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Perk seeks a Senior Design Systems Designer to lead Suitcase's craft and visual direction across web and mobile. You will collaborate with front-end engineers, content designers and product designers to elevate design standards and token systems.

You will drive accessibility, architecture, and component governance, while coaching designers and engineers to adopt a unified design language and scalable system across surfaces, including AI-enabled workflows.

Qualifications

• Strong product design experience designing and scaling design systems for web and mobile.
• Deep grasp of typography, colour, layout, motion and micro-interactions.
• Judgement on when a new component is needed and when to reuse an existing one.
• Experience designing and maintaining token systems, theming, and Figma-to-code workflows.
• Practical experience designing components for WCAG 2.2 AA standards.
• Experience prototyping with AI tools and with Storybook, Code Connect and MCP tooling.
• Ability to persuade non-designers to adopt decisions and drive roadmap alignment.
• Experience using user and business insights to own outcomes and roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Set the direction for Suitcase with design and engineering leadership and build a roadmap.
• Own the visual language, token architecture, and foundations of Suitcase.
• Collaborate on content localisation and ensure language requirements are embedded.
• Design, document, and refine components with complete states and variants.
• Write component specs readable by AI prototyping tools and ensure real components are used.
• Ensure WCAG 2.2 AA conformance and make accessibility part of the build process.
• Define measures for component health, accessibility, and parity with code.
• Lead governance for component handoffs between experimental and core layers.

Skills

design systems

typography & UI

accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA)

Figma-to-code workflows

AI prototyping tools

Storybook

Tools

Figma

Storybook

Code Connect

MCP tooling

HTML/CSS/JS

Job description

Perk seeks a Senior Design Systems Designer to lead Suitcase's craft and visual direction across web and mobile. You will collaborate with front-end engineers, content designers and product designers to elevate design standards and token systems.

You will drive accessibility, architecture, and component governance, while coaching designers and engineers to adopt a unified design language and scalable system across surfaces, including AI-enabled workflows.