[Hiring] Design system designer @Pennylane SAS

Role Description

We are seeking a Design System Designer to grow and maintain Purse, our design system, alongside our Design System Manager. You will own the craft of the system at the component level: building tokens, components, and patterns that 40+ designers and engineers rely on every day across web, mobile, and tablet, in multiple languages.

You'll partner closely with engineering on design–code parity, with product designers as their support for system usage, and with our Design System Manager on the long-term direction of Purse. If you love the craft of system design, defining APIs, modeling tokens, writing documentation that's beautifully clear for both humans and AI, and care about how a great system shapes a great product, you'll thrive at Pennylane.

Qualifications

• Design System Expertise
• Hands-on experience contributing to a design system at scale: designing components, defining variants and APIs, modeling tokens, and maintaining Figma libraries used by 40+ designers
• Strong understanding of design token systems, semantic naming, and theming / multi-brand patterns
• Skilled at running design system audits, spotting inconsistencies in product surfaces, and bringing them back into the system
• Experience writing component documentation that is clear for designers, engineers, and product managers
• Expertise in what makes a design system interpretable and usable by AI: structured content, machine-readable patterns, AI-ready documentation conventions, and how an LLM or codegen agent consumes a design system
• Solid grounding in accessibility (WCAG) and inclusive design practices

Requirements

• Mindset
• You want to push the design system toward an ambitious vision, but you know how to slice the path into small intermediate milestones that deliver value at every step, rather than waiting for the perfect end state
• You are pragmatic: you don't overthink, you don't always work by the book, and you know when a "good enough" solution beats a perfect one
• You are curious about how design systems are evolving in 2026 (AI, codegen, token automation, MCP)
• You enjoy switching between deep craft work and pragmatic system-level decisions
• Technical Partnership
• Strong technical acumen with a clear understanding of how design systems are implemented in code
• Comfortable working in a production-first environment where code is the source of truth, and Figma reflects what ships
• Experience partnering with engineering teams to ensure design–code parity and smooth implementation of new components
• Enablement & Communication
• Experience supporting product designers through office hours, a support model, or peer review
• Demonstrated ability to evangelize a design system, present design rationale, and translate component-level decisions for non-design stakeholders
• Ability to handle complex support requests and turn recurring questions into permanent improvements (docs, lint rules, worked examples)

Benefits

• 🏢 You'll be able to work remotely from your country of residence, as long as it is in Europe and within a maximum time difference of two hours from the CET time zone
• 🌴 Wherever you are based, you will get 25 vacation days paid by Pennylane
• 💵 You'll have a competitive compensation package
• 📈 You'll get company shares to enjoy a piece of the success story you're building with us
• 🏡 You'll have a budget to turn your home into a more comfortable workspace, as well as a monthly allowance to work from a coworking space whenever you feel like it
• ⛹️ Through our partner Gymlib, you'll have access to 8000 fitness spaces in Europe and more than 300 activities related to wellness
• 🇬🇧 You'll have access to Busuu to perfect your English or your French
• 💻 You'll get the latest Apple equipment
• 🎉 We are committed to regularly coming together for company events such as Tech Days (which bring remote Pennylaners together every 3 months) or our annual company seminar, fostering significant moments of cohesion for everyone.