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Millions look to us for unique activities they can trust, and it’s all powered by our commitment to make every single journey extraordinary - including yours. \nReady to unlock your potential with a community of fellow explorers? Find your next role at our Berlin HQ or one of our local offices around the globe, from New York to Bangkok. Head to getyourguide.careers to take the first step.\nTeam mission\nAs our Senior Design Systems Manager, you will help lead GetYourGuide into the future with best in systems design thinking and processes. This role is one of the most important strategic leadership roles within the UX organization, helping us to move into the future of product development organizations. We believe the future XFN product roles, designers to PM, will move from specialists to more full stack thinking across the product development process. This includes evolving systems processes with our XFN partners with automated tooling, new AI systems tooling, and how we should approach scaling our systems with accessibility and localization teams. \nYou will plan, build, and implement high quality product design patterns that help our travelers and suppliers understand what we offer simply and effectively. Your goal internally is to create processes for efficiency and quality at scale with your XFN partners. You will both consolidate and seed new patterns and design thinking into the organization and products.\nYou will work at multiple levels - from strategic to tactical - from helping to define the team’s strategy and vision, from processes to pixels. You must have empathy across our tech functional needs, as well as our customers, in order to create intuitive experiences that make it easy to get the job done. We’re looking for a seasoned manager who thrives in ambiguity, has a strong human-centered design process, has the desire to learn and collaborate cross-functionally, and design systematic solutions and processes that are equally thoughtful and elegant.\nYour mission\nShape, govern, and evolve the design language team and its capabilities at GetYourGuide across functions, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and scalability across products. \nYou will lead us into a new world of design systems, where automation, AI-assisted tooling, and code-driven design play central roles, you will bridge design, engineering, and product strategy.\nPartner closely with multi-disciplinary team members - Product Design, Content Design, Product Management, Engineering, Research, Data products, and others - to take our business to the next level.\nYou’re a master of deploying your design team at varying levels, from centralized processes to embedded ones, creating new ways of working that rid the process of unnecessary stages and creating new ways of working that will level up the entire tech organization’s product development process.\nWork across all stages of the product development process (requirements gathering, ideation, concept development, validation, wireframing, prototyping, final visual design, and implementation support).\nGuide teams in using the system effectively, while nurturing a culture that embraces system thinking over isolated solutions.\nAnticipate and embed emerging trends like generative UI, adaptive theming, and real-time personalization into the system roadmap.\nYou are responsible for the team’s output - beautiful, emotionally compelling, pixel-perfect patterns and processes shaping the design systems industry.\nAdvance the discipline of high quality product design within the organization.\nYou bring a proactive approach to your work, embracing challenges and ambiguity with confidence. Your learning-by-doing mindset allows you to adapt quickly and deliver impactful results in dynamic environments.\nYou are skilled at sequencing complex projects into manageable, actionable steps that drive progress across teams. You ensure every design decision is grounded in solving real user problems while aligning with business objectives.\nYour toolkit\n10+ years of experience in product design leadership, leading products with strong systems thinking\nStrong vision thinking, with proven projects that have shaped/influenced an organization’s way of thinking\nTrack record of designing and shipping design patterns that have scaled to millions of users and had successful outcomes for global users and the business.\nAI super user, knowing the ongoing trends and capabilities with AI in design systems.\nCreated efficiencies with your teams in various engagement models, from centralized to embedded to help support a tech organization with the system design.\nYou champion and understand the interplay between frontend interactions and backend logic, ensuring your designs are not only visually compelling but also technically feasible. Your collaboration with engineers is seamless, bridging the gap between design intent and technical execution.\nAbility to navigate ambiguity, and drive clarity that brings the user, technology, and business together to aid their roadmaps and increase the output of the design system.\nExperience connecting the dots across the organization with other related initiatives across the company while driving collaboration.\nExceptional collaboration skills with proven processes that brings the tech functions together to thoughtfully craft a design system in code and pixels.\nExtraordinary thoughtfulness in design craft for interaction design and prototyping.\nHumble, collaborative approach to partnering with PMs, engineers, and business stakeholders to find the best solution together.\nExperience collaborating with machine learning and data science teams to influence design from a user-centered and GenAI lens.\nWhen evaluating your experience and skills we will be focusing on:\nAn outstanding portfolio, where your leadership shaped how a company thinks about design, the benefits of consistency and scale.\nProven leadership in pivoting to various business needs, effectively moving your designers towards various, shifting goals.\nStrong vision and thought leadership where your influence proved effective for the larger team.\nEffective English verbal/written communication and presentation skills, with the ability to successfully articulate/advocate design concepts to your partner team.\nStrong ability to think technically and collaborate seamlessly with engineering managers and data science leaders as it pertains to understanding the benefits, possibilities, and constraints of common coding languages and AI/machine learning platforms. You work with them to create a vision of our product in the future that is an outcome of that collaboration.\nEffective time management skills to balance project schedules with fast-paced deadlines.\nHow we’ll make your career journey extraordinary\nAnnual personal growth budget and mentorship programs for continuous learning and development\nWork from anywhere in the world for 30 days per year\nA hybrid working approach with three days of in office collaboration (Mon, Tue, Thur) and two days of optional at home focus time. \nOpportunities to collaborate and socialize with a quarterly team event budget \nAccess to leading AI tools plus the resources and budget to get the most out of them\nMonthly transportation and fitness budget\nDiscounts for you, your friends, and family on GetYourGuide activities\nLanguage reimbursement program\nHealth and wellness benefits\nAnd more…\nHow to apply\nSubmit your CV/resume in English using the form below. For tips and insights into our hiring process and culture, check out ‘how we hire ’ and ‘life at GetYourGuide ’. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch at .\nWe’re an equal opportunities employer\nOur commitment is that every qualified person will be evaluated according to their skills regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, or religion. 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