About the Role

• Looking for a Senior Product Designer, Design Systems to help shape the next generation of Aurora, the design system that underpins Iterable’s product experience.
• This role is for a systems-minded designer who is equally comfortable in Figma, documentation, code-adjacent workflows, and technical conversations with engineers.
• You’ll help Aurora become more than a collection of components: a versioned, structured, verifiable system of design intent that people and AI tools can reliably understand and use.
• You’ll contribute to the evolution of Aurora’s visual language, component architecture, tokens, patterns, and guidance.
• You’ll also help define the specifications, schemas, tooling, and contribution practices that make those decisions durable across Figma, code, documentation, prototypes, and AI-assisted product development.
• goal is to make it easier for teams, and the tools that help them build, to produce consistent, accessible, high-quality product experiences without guessing.
• This is a design leadership role without direct people management.
• You’ll be expected to set a high bar, create clarity, influence across teams, and contribute directly to the work.
• This is not an ML engineering role; you don’t need to train models, but you do need to understand how AI-assisted tools consume design system information and help create the structure, constraints, and workflows that let those tools produce better results.
• You'll know you're succeeding when teams can find and apply the right Aurora component, pattern, token, and requirement without relying on tribal knowledge.
• Success means specs and component contracts stay close to code and clearly describe structure, configuration, states, behavior, accessibility, and composition.
• Success means AI-assisted workflows use current Aurora guidance and tokens instead of fabricating values or creating avoidable divergence.
• Success means audits, release practices, and shared tooling catch issues early while helping product teams move faster with more consistent, accessible, polished experiences.
• You’ll work closely with product designers across Iterable, helping them apply Aurora and contribute back to the system.
• You’ll work closely with frontend and platform engineers building and maintaining component libraries, token infrastructure, and quality tooling.
• You’ll work closely with product managers and product teams navigating complex workflows and system-level trade-offs.
• You’ll work closely with documentation, developer experience, and AI enablement partners as we make design intent easier to discover and use.

What You'll Be Doing

• 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

Nice to Have

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary for this position in Lisbon, Portugal: €60,000 – €70,000 per year (gross).
• 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.

About [Company Name]

• Iterable is the AI customer engagement platform, built for enterprise scale, loved by teams, and trusted by global brands like Redfin, SeatGeek, Priceline, Calm, and Box.
• The platform empowers organizations to activate customer data from any source, design seamless cross-channel experiences, and optimize engagement with Nova Intelligence, the AI layer of the platform, all with enterprise-grade security and compliance.
• Nearly 1,200 brands across 50+ countries rely on Iterable to drive growth, deepen customer relationships, and deliver joyful customer experiences.
• Success is powered by core values: Be an Owner, Growth Mindset, Run as One, and Transparency.
• G2 recognizes Iterable as a Leader globally, spanning the Americas, EMEA, APAC, ANZ, and Latin America, with category leadership in Personalization, Marketing Automation, Push Notifications, and Mobile Marketing, and a 4.5/5-star rating from hundreds of users.
• Gartner named Iterable a Challenger in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Multichannel Marketing in both 2024 and 2025.
• Earned TrustRadius Top Rated honors in 2024 and 2025, named a TrustRadius Buyer’s Choice for 2026, and featured in Snowflake’s Modern Marketing Data Stack 2026.
• Global presence includes offices in San Francisco, Denver, London, Sydney, and Lisbon, plus remote employees worldwide.