Senior Design Systems Architect (Hybrid)

Perk Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Perk is seeking a Senior Design Systems Designer to own the craft and visual direction of Suitcase, Perk's design system. You will work with front-end engineers, content and product design to elevate components across web and mobile.

You’ll set the direction for Suitcase with leadership, ensure typography and token architecture are consistent, and drive accessibility and adoption across teams while collaborating on AI-enabled prototyping and localisation considerations.

Qualifications

• Strong product design experience, including time spent designing and scaling design systems for a fast-growing product on web and mobile.
• A deep grasp of typography, colour, layout, motion, and micro-interactions.
• Judgement on when the system needs a new component and when an existing one should be used.
• Practical experience designing components for WCAG 2.2 AA standards, including keyboard and screen-reader behaviour.
• Experience prototyping with AI tools and with Storybook, Code Connect and MCP tooling, and an understanding of how they connect design systems to code and AI tools.
• The ability to take non-designers from the problem to the decision to the outcome and build adoption by persuasion.
• A clear opinion of what good looks like, and the ability to make trade-off decisions and defend them.
• Experience using customer insight from research, support and sales as well as team data, and taking ownership of business outcomes.
• A clear voice in shaping roadmap, sequencing and scope, and the ability to push back, including when the system is being bypassed, without damaging the relationship.
• Experience integrating or consolidating design systems.
• Familiarity with content and localisation considerations in components.

Responsibilities

• Set the direction for Suitcase with design and engineering leadership, turn the vision into a roadmap with named resources, and report progress against it.
• Own the visual language, token architecture, and foundations of Suitcase: typography, colour, space, motion, and interaction states.
• Work with content design and localisation on content tokens, so components carry their language requirements.
• Design, document, and refine components with complete states, variants, platform coverage and usage guidance.
• Write component specs that AI prototyping tools can read, so generated prototypes use real Suitcase components and tokens.
• Bring components to WCAG 2.2 AA, and make conformance part of how new components are built and reviewed.
• Define adoption, component health, accessibility, and Figma-to-code parity measures with engineering, and report against them.
• Run the contribution governance model, with defined routes for components between an experimental layer and the core system.
• Champion Suitcase across Builders, explain the reasoning behind decisions, and coach designers and engineers on using and contributing to the system.

Skills

Design systems

Typography

UI design

WCAG 2.2 AA

Storybook

AI prototyping

MCP tooling

Roadmapping

Tools

Code Connect

MCP tooling

Job description

Perk is seeking a Senior Design Systems Designer to own the craft and visual direction of Suitcase, Perk's design system. You will work with front-end engineers, content and product design to elevate components across web and mobile.

You’ll set the direction for Suitcase with leadership, ensure typography and token architecture are consistent, and drive accessibility and adoption across teams while collaborating on AI-enabled prototyping and localisation considerations.