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Salary: EUR 60,000 - 70,000 / annual
Iterable is an AI-powered customer engagement platform trusted by global brands like Redfin, SeatGeek, Priceline, Calm, and Box. The company serves nearly 1,200 brands across 50+ countries and is recognized as a Leader by G2 and a Challenger by Gartner in the Multichannel Marketing space.
You will lead the evolution of Aurora, Iterable's design system, helping it become a versioned, structured, and verifiable system of design intent that both people and AI tools can reliably understand and use. This is a design leadership role without direct people management—you'll set a high bar, create clarity, influence across teams, and contribute directly to the work.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead Aurora's evolution across foundations, components, patterns, and product-specific assemblies
- Define component contracts and structured specifications covering anatomy, properties, variants, states, slots, composition, accessibility, and intended use
- Make design intent machine-readable for Figma, code, documentation, prototypes, and AI coding agents
- Partner with engineers to connect Figma, tokens, React, Storybook, prototypes, and documentation through deterministic workflows that minimize drift
- Strengthen Aurora's token architecture, themes, aliases, states, and core foundations
- Establish audits and quality gates for hardcoded values, invalid combinations, missing states, accessibility gaps, and system divergence
- Help version and communicate system changes through changelogs, release notes, impact reports, and architectural decision records
- Explore responsible AI/LLM use of Aurora and build prototypes, tools, and guidance that help teams apply the system consistently
- Audit product surfaces, improve high-impact inconsistencies, and mentor designers and engineers in systems thinking and AI-ready workflows
You'll work closely with product designers across Iterable, frontend and platform engineers, product managers, and documentation/developer experience partners. Success means teams can find and apply the right Aurora component without tribal knowledge, specs stay close to code, AI-assisted workflows use current guidance instead of fabricating values, and audits catch issues early while helping teams move faster.
Requirements:
- 6+ years of product design experience, including building or evolving design systems at scale
- Portfolio demonstrating strong craft, interaction quality, accessibility, and systems thinking
- Deep Figma expertise: variables and modes, properties, variants, slots, branching, libraries, and scalable organization
- Experience defining component APIs, anatomy, states, behaviors, composition rules, and usage guidance
- Comfort with schemas, contracts, taxonomies, dependencies, validation, versioning, and change management
- Strong engineering partnership across implementation, testing, accessibility, APIs, and release quality
- Familiarity with Storybook, Figma Code Connect, token pipelines, and documentation or design-system management tools
- Ability to write precise documentation for humans and machines, with practical understanding of how AI coding agents consume context
- Strong accessibility knowledge, asynchronous communication, organizational skills, and pragmatic, hands-on multiplier mindset
Bonus qualifications:
- Experience with B2B SaaS and complex, data-rich workflows
- Ability to use HTML, CSS, and React for prototyping, communication, or quality refinements
- Experience with design tokens, transformation, linting, CI checks, design-to-code pipeline
- Experience with APIs, GitHub workflows, command-line tools, or automation for design-system operations
- Experience with AI/LLM instructions, agent skills, retrieval-friendly documentation, generated-UI evaluation, advanced prototyping, or cross-platform systems
