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KAKAYAK

Design Foundations & Operations Specialist(m/w/x)

Berlin
Full-timeWith Home OfficeSenior
AI/ML

Coordinating design-to-engineering handoffs and evolving contribution workflows for design systems at a travel search engine. Real design systems fluency (token architectures, Figma libraries) and 5+ years in product design organizations essential. 6 weeks paid vacation, company-paid therapy sessions, and a company-wide week off.

Requirements

  • 5+ years experience in product design organization with design systems
  • Experience coordinating delivery across teams and stakeholders
  • Real design systems fluency (token architectures, component libraries, Figma libraries, design-to-code)
  • Experience running contribution or adoption workflows
  • Strong Figma proficiency (components, properties, variables, library architecture)
  • Visual judgment (consistency, brand alignment, system coherence)
  • Comfort with measurement (tracking adoption, scorecards, progress communication)
  • Comfort collaborating with engineers and front-end workflows
  • Hands-on experience using AI tools in design workflow
  • Self-driven, autonomous approach
  • Proactive and inquisitive mindset

Tasks

  • Coordinate design-to-engineering handoffs for foundations work
  • Ensure designs move into implementation
  • Flag when implementation stalls
  • Maintain shared understanding of timelines and dependencies
  • Run and evolve contribution workflows
  • Manage design system onboarding and enablement
  • Host design system office hours
  • Communicate design system changes
  • Maintain and publish quality metrics
  • Track component parity across platforms
  • Monitor design system adoption rates
  • Track design system deviation
  • Make measurement framework operational and current
  • Support visual foundations work (icons, illustrations, assets)
  • Contribute hands-on to visual foundations work
  • Ensure visual work meets quality standards
  • Integrate visual work into existing libraries
  • Partner with leads to translate brand direction
  • Develop systematic, reusable design guidance
  • Support definition and management of design tokens
  • Manage design tokens (color, typography, spacing, motion)
  • Align product pods, brand partners, and engineering
  • Coordinate foundations work prioritization, delivery, and adoption
  • Use AI tools to accelerate design exploration
  • Improve asset transfer using AI tools
  • Support readiness for AI-assisted design workflows
  • Build and refine AI-assisted design workflows

Work Experience

  • 5 years

Education

  • Bachelor's degreeOR
  • Master's degree

Languages

  • EnglishBusiness Fluent

Tools & Technologies

  • Figma
  • Storybook
  • GitHub
  • AI tools

Benefits

More Vacation Days

  • 6 weeks paid vacation
  • Company-wide week off

Workation & Sabbatical

  • Work from anywhere (20 days/year)

Mental Health Support

  • Company-paid therapy sessions
  • HeadSpace subscription
  • Massages

Flexible Working

  • No meeting Fridays

Generous Parental Leave

  • Paid parental leave

Social Impact

  • Paid volunteer time

Additional Allowances

  • Development Dollars

Career Advancement

  • Leadership development

Learning & Development

  • On-demand e-learnings access

Corporate Discounts

  • Travel discounts

Other Benefits

  • Employee Resource Groups

Free or Subsidized Food

  • Free lunch (2 days/week)

Retirement Plans

  • Pension plan contributions

Public Transport Subsidies

  • Public transportation subsidies

Company Bike

  • Bike leasing program

Team Events

  • Monthly social events
  • Thursday happy hours
  • Sports teams
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