Senior Design System Designer

At Air France – KLM, we are looking for a Senior Design System Designer to help shape and evolve our Design System. As a design community, we create digital experiences for our customers across different touchpoints in a way that reflects both of our brands. Our design system plays a vital part in this by providing a clear vision, standards, and ready-to-use components to build a wide range of applications.

For this role, you will focus on the evolution of our Design System to extend and continuously improve it, ensuring it aligns with industry design principles and best practices, including the use of design tokens. You will provide the standards and components so the rest of our design community can focus on building great products used by millions of passengers every year. If you are passionate about driving design system excellence, operational efficiency, and delivering scalable experiences, this role is tailored for you.

In this role, you will:

• Create and update inclusive, easy-to-use components that can be applied across products, supporting the right context of use;
• Investigate industry best practices and technology trends to ensure the design system architecture is tailored to support our ambition;
• Maintain and expand our design tokens strategy;
• Incorporate our brand values and beliefs so our design system and digital assets reflect both identities;
• Create comprehensive, clear, and up-to-date documentation explaining how to use everything the design system has to offer;
• Promote inclusivity and diversity in design choices by integrating accessibility standards such as WCAG, making sure our components are usable by everyone;
• Pave the way for our design community by helping them apply the design system effectively, use design tokens the right way, handle component requests or potential bugs, and keep them up to date about the latest additions and changes;
• Collaborate with designers, developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to ensure the design system aligns with project goals and user needs;
• Conduct user research and gather feedback to understand how design system components are performing in real-world scenarios;
• Stay updated on design and technology trends to ensure the design system remains relevant and adaptable to changing needs;
• Advocate for the design system’s adoption and usage across the organization.

What you bring:

• A bachelor's degree in Design or a related field;
• A minimum of 5–6 years of experience in the digital design field;
• Proven experience in designing and maintaining design systems at large scale;
• Proficiency in setting up and maintaining design tokens, including experience creating a design tokens strategy for a large company, ideally a multi-brand company, to streamline the work of building, maintaining, and scaling products with a design system;
• Extensive knowledge of Figma as a tool to create and distribute all parts of the design system to the design community;
• Strong understanding of web and mobile design principles;
• Knowledge of accessibility standards such as WCAG and inclusive design practices;
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills;
• Strong eye for detail and a high commitment to quality;
• Excellent understanding of HTML/CSS;
• Knowledge of GitHub;
• Fluent in English;
• Ability to adapt to evolving design and technology trends.

Wat bieden wij

• Volop ruimte voor persoonlijke ontwikkeling en mooie doorgroeimogelijkheden;
• Een uitstekende pensioenregeling en 8% vakantiegeld;
• Een eindejaarsuitkering van 8,33%;
• Een regeling voor winstdeling, tot 20%;
• 25 vakantiedagen en 5 extra vrije dagen;
• Fikse korting op vliegtickets (als je minimaal 6 maanden in dienst bent);
• Een duurzaam vervoersbeleid, met o.a. 100% gratis reizen naar het werk met het Openbaar Vervoer (binnen Nederland);
• Als je functie dit toelaat: thuiswerken en tot 8 weken werken vanuit het buitenland (EU en Caribisch gebied);
• 2% vrij te besteden ontwikkelbudget;