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Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is an intelligent platform for travel and spend management, trusted by over 12,000 companies worldwide including Bolt, GoCardless, and Fabletics. The company has grown to 1,800+ employees across 12 global offices since its 2015 founding, with headquarters in London and Boston.
As Senior Design Systems Designer, you will own the craft and visual direction of Suitcase, Perk's design system that supports 25+ designers and engineers across web and mobile platforms. Your role is to establish Suitcase as a complete, consumer-grade, accessible, and distributable system ensuring Perk feels consistent across all customer touchpoints, including AI agents and assistants.
Key responsibilities include:
- Setting strategic direction for Suitcase with design and engineering leadership, creating roadmaps with named resources, and reporting progress
- Owning the visual language, token architecture, and foundations (typography, colour, space, motion, interaction states)
- Collaborating with content design and localization teams on content tokens and language requirements
- Designing, documenting, and refining components with complete states, variants, platform coverage, and usage guidance
- Writing component specifications for AI prototyping tools to use real Suitcase components and tokens
- Ensuring WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility compliance and making it standard in component review processes
- Defining and tracking adoption, component health, accessibility, and Figma-to-code parity metrics
- Managing contribution governance with defined routes for components between experimental and core layers
- Championing Suitcase adoption across teams, explaining design decisions, and coaching designers and engineers
The role requires 3 days per week in-office at Barcelona hub. Perk takes an IRL-first approach, believing in-person collaboration improves connectivity, productivity, and creativity. Relocation support available for qualified candidates from anywhere globally. English is the official office language.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong product design experience with demonstrated success designing and scaling design systems for fast-growing products on web and mobile
- Deep expertise in typography, colour, layout, motion, and micro-interactions
- Sound judgment on component creation versus reuse decisions
- Proven 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 to WCAG 2.2 AA standards, including keyboard and screen-reader behaviour
- Experience prototyping with AI tools, Storybook, Code Connect, and MCP tooling; understanding of how these connect design systems to code and AI
- Ability to guide non-designers from problem identification through decision-making to outcomes, building adoption through persuasion
- Clear perspective on design quality with ability to make and defend trade-off decisions
- Experience leveraging customer insights from research, support, and sales data to drive business outcomes
- Strong voice in roadmap shaping, sequencing, and scope management; ability to push back diplomatically when systems are bypassed
- Experience integrating or consolidating design systems
- Familiarity with content and localization considerations in component design
