Senior Design System Designer

You will contribute to and maintain the design system and collaborate with product teams to develop projects. You will own design system initiatives from start to finish, aligning with engineering and product requirements, guiding solutions for all user scenarios, and ensuring efficient delivery. You will collaborate cross functionally with designers, product managers, engineers and other stakeholders to translate accessibility, business and user needs into simple and intuitive solutions that scale through rapid exploration, definition and validation. You will evolve design system operations and mentor others to promote scalability and coherence across implementations.

Responsibilities

• Co-Own our Design System: Contribute to the growth and consistency of Bitpanda’s DS by confidently designing patterns, components, tokens, and managing libraries, while creating clear and accessible documentation that enables the implementation and usage of design systems.
• Lead End-to-End DS Initiatives: Own DS projects in Product teams from start to finish, aligning closely with engineering and product requirements, enabling collaboration and exploration, leading solutions considering all user scenarios, and assisting others to ensure an efficient delivery.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with designers, product managers, engineers and other stakeholders to turn accessibility, business, and user needs into simple and intuitive solutions that work at scale through a process of rapid exploration, definition, and validation.
• Evolve DS Operations: Contribute to grow and improve internal processes, frameworks, and tooling for a more efficient development and usage of our design system.
• Mentor and Advocate: Support peers, give feedback and guidance regarding design systems, foster a mindset that prioritizes scalability and coherence while promoting the DS value and adoption across teams

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience collaborating closely with product and engineering peers in a design system team, or experience with design system responsibilities collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders
• Expert design systems skills including technical knowledge and a deep and strategic understanding to drive product quality and cohesion
• Generalist UX design skills with strong UI and visual abilities, capable of high quality and speed while leading projects autonomously
• State of the art workflow with current industry-standard tools like Figma, Miro and JIRA, and experience in using and contributing to design systems
• Excellent command of spoken and written English

Benefits

• Flexibility to work where you thrive Hybrid working model with onsite and remote work and 25 days of time off per year to work from a city or country of your choice
• Stock option plan
• Confidential coaching counselling and mental health resources through OpenUP
• Extra days off to recharge 3 additional days off in 2026 to prioritise wellbeing
• Unlimited access to Udemy library of online courses
• Discounts rewards and perks from partners worldwide across lifestyle wellness tech and travel
• 8 weeks of gender neutral new parent leave
• Free onsite dining at Pandas locations Vienna Bucharest Barcelona and Berlin
• Recognition and rewards for tenure achievements
• Exclusive Bitpanda branded merchandise and gear
• Company events and celebrations such as Winter Party in Vienna and gatherings worldwide