Senior Product Designer
About the role
How will you make an impact
What you’ll do
- Lead Aurora's evolution across foundations, components, patterns, and product-specific assemblies.
- Define component contracts and structured specs 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, including behaviors Figma cannot express alone.
- 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 change logs, release notes, impact reports, and architectural decision records.
- Explore responsible AI/LLM use of Aurora, then 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.
What you’ll bring
- 6+ years of product design experience, including building or evolving design systems at scale.
- A 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 a practical understanding of how AI coding agents consume context and where they drift.
- Strong accessibility knowledge, asynchronous communication, organizational skills, and a pragmatic, hands-on multiplier mindset.
Bonus points
- 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.
How you’ll know you’re succeeding
- Teams can find and apply the right Aurora component, pattern, token, and requirement without relying on tribal knowledge.
- Specs and component contracts stay close to code and clearly describe structure, configuration, states, behavior, accessibility, and composition.
- AI-assisted workflows use current Aurora guidance and tokens instead of fabricating values or creating avoidable divergence.
- Audits, release practices, and shared tooling catch issues early while helping product teams move faster with more consistent, accessible, polished experiences.
Working relationships
You'll work closely with:
- Product designers across Iterable, helping them apply Aurora and contribute back to the system.
- Frontend and platform engineers building and maintaining component libraries, token infrastructure, and quality tooling.
- Product managers and product teams navigating complex workflows and system-level trade-offs.
- Documentation, developer experience, and AI enablement partners as we make design intent easier to discover and use.
What this role is and isn’t
What we offer
- Competitive salaries & meaningful equity
- Private Medical Insurance
- Life/Risk Assurance
- Meal Allowance: 8.55€ per day
- Community Days (days for us to give back to the community)
- Paid Annual Leave (22 days)
- Global Lifestyle Reimbursement Account
- Paid Sabbatical
- Complete laptop workstation
The base salary range for this position in Lisbon, Portugal, is €60,000 - €70,000 per year (gross). This range is provided in anticipation of the requirements of the EU Pay Transparency Directive (2023/970), which EU member states are implementing into national law, and reflects the expected compensation at the start of employment for this role.The final offer will be determined based on your experience, qualifications, and performance throughout the selection process, while also ensuring alignment with our internal equity principles.
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