Senior Design Systems Designer

• Design & Develop: Create, refine, and maintain UI components, patterns, and tokens to ensure usability, scalability, and accessibility.
• System Thinking: Translate brand guidelines, interaction models, and user needs into reusable, flexible system elements.
• Collaboration: Partner with engineers to implement components, ensuring parity across design and code.
• Advocacy & Adoption: Champion the design system internally, driving adoption, documentation, and training for designers and developers.
• Accessibility & Inclusivity: Embed accessibility best practices into every component and pattern.
• Governance: Contribute to guidelines, processes, and tooling that ensure the system evolves sustainably and consistently.
• Mentorship: Support and mentor other designers in leveraging the system effectively.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify gaps and opportunities for innovation in the system based on user feedback, analytics, and industry trends., Of course, there's a tennis table, great coffee and snacks. You'll get a brand new MacBook Pro or PC, and yes, nice colleagues. But that's not all!
• Flexible benefits plan, company-paid private health insurance, and a sponsored gym membership.
• Not in Barcelona yet? We help you hit the ground running. We'll assist you with your relocation, from apartment to paperwork.
• Opportunity to develop your talent with a goal-oriented team.

What does the Recruitment Process look like?

• You hit Easy Apply. That's it. No cover letters, no questionnaire.
• We'll review every application/portfolio and if you catch our eye, we'll email you to schedule a first phone call. This call's purpose is to see if the job matches your expectations and skills.
• On your second call, you'll speak to HR and some members of the team. You can find out about our culture and specifics of working with us.
• We will send you a case study so you can show us your skills! We will review it and share feedback.
• If your idea meets our requirements, you'll have the opportunity to present your case study in an interview at our office with future product & engineering colleagues and team members. A moment to ask anything you want to know about the product, team dynamics and expectations of the role, especially in your solo time with the hiring manager, your future supervisor.

Do you have experience in Web accessibility?, * 5+ years of experience in product design, with at least 2+ years dedicated to design systems.

• Expert knowledge in Figma.
• Proven experience collaborating closely with front-end engineers.
• Deep understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG, ARIA) and inclusive design practices.
• Strong communication and documentation skills for sharing guidelines, rationales, and decisions.
• Ability to balance consistency with flexibility across diverse product needs.
• Familiarity with token-driven systems and theming strategies.
• Do you speak fluent German? That's a very nice to have! Not a requirement if your english it's excellent.
• Willingness to travel to our Headquarters in Germany when needed, once every 2 months approximately.

Haufe Group makes people at work more successful. With content, software and training. 

Haufe Group is a leading B2B provider of integrated business and workplace solutions. The family business supports people and companies in their business development and in successfully shaping transformation processes. With content, software and training.  

The family-owned company based in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, is broadly positioned to support customers on their own path into the future with a wide range of solutions. Haufe Group was founded in 1951 and currently employs around 2,500 people at 10 locations. The Haufe Group’s best-known brands include Haufe, Haufe Akademie and Lexware, and over one million customers from the DACH region rely on the services of Haufe Group – from solo freelancers to all DAX 40 companies. 

Transformation is the driving force behind Haufe Group’s corporate development. To consistently expand its culture of innovation, the corporate group establishes forward-looking methods of work, utilizes new technologies to create modern products and solutions and invests in pioneering start-ups and future fields of activity. This is how Haufe Group shapes the working world of tomorrow for its customers.