Senior Design Systems Designer

The role

You will own the craft and visual direction of Suitcase, Perk's design system. You will work with engineers, content designers, and product designers to develop components, token architecture, and accessibility standards for web and mobile.

What you will do

• Set the direction for Suitcase with design and engineering leadership
• Own the visual language, token architecture, and foundations of Suitcase
• Work with content design and localisation on content tokens
• Design, document, and refine components with complete states and usage guidance
• Write component specs for AI prototyping tools
• Bring components to WCAG 2.2 AA standards
• Define adoption, component health, accessibility, and Figma-to-code parity measures
• Run the contribution governance model
• Champion Suitcase and coach designers and engineers on using and contributing to the system

Required qualifications

• Strong product design experience, including designing and scaling design systems for web and mobile
• Deep grasp of typography, colour, layout, motion, and micro-interactions
• Experience designing and maintaining token systems including naming, theming, documentation, and Figma-to-code workflows
• Working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• 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 build adoption by persuasion
• Ability to make trade-off decisions and defend them
• Experience using customer insight from research, support and sales as well as team data
• Ability to shape roadmap, sequencing and scope and push back
• Experience integrating or consolidating design systems
• Familiarity with content and localisation considerations in components

Benefits

• Relocation help available for certain roles

Before you apply

• Must be based within commuting distance of hubs
• Submit resume in English
• Submit an updated portfolio and/or resume

About the company

Perk is an intelligent platform for travel and spend management. It is a global company with more than 1,800 people across 12 offices.