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Our team of 40+ product designers work across different tracks that are divided into cross-functional squads each consisting of Engineering, Product and Design. Autonomy, trust and transparency are the key values upon which our culture is built, this is directly reflected in how our designers operate on a day-to-day basis.\nAt Pennylane, designers are expected to actively contribute all the way from defining the problem space, to research and testing.\nWe 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.\nYou'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.\nWhat you'll bring\nDesign System Expertise\nHands-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\n\nStrong understanding of design token systems, semantic naming, and theming / multi-brand patterns\n\nSkilled at running design system audits, spotting inconsistencies in product surfaces, and bringing them back into the system\n\nExperience writing component documentation that is clear for designers, engineers, and product managers\n\nExpertise 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\n\nSolid grounding in accessibility (WCAG) and inclusive design practices\n\nMindset\nYou 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\n\nYou 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\n\nYou are curious about how design systems are evolving in 2026 (AI, codegen, token automation, MCP)\n\nYou enjoy switching between deep craft work and pragmatic system-level decisions\n\nTechnical Partnership\nStrong technical acumen with a clear understanding of how design systems are implemented in code\n\nComfortable working in a production-first environment where code is the source of truth, and Figma reflects what ships\n\nExperience partnering with engineering teams to ensure design-code parity and smooth implementation of new components\n\nEnablement & Communication\nExperience supporting product designers through office hours, a support model, or peer review\n\nDemonstrated ability to evangelize a design system, present design rationale, and translate component-level decisions for non-design stakeholders\n\nAbility to handle complex support requests and turn recurring questions into permanent improvements (docs, lint rules, worked examples)\n\nNice to have\nExperience with B2B SaaS products or fintech environments\n\nFamiliarity with multi-language / internationalization design challenges\n\nExperience contributing to or maintaining a tokens pipeline (Style Dictionary, Tokens Studio, MCP-based pipelines)\n\nBackground in accessibility standards and inclusive design practices\n\nExperience working in fast-growing scale-ups\n\nYour key responsibilities\nBuild and maintain components, patterns, and tokens in Purse, partnering closely with engineering to ensure design-code parity across web, mobile, and tablet\n\nWrite and maintain component documentation that serves designers, engineers, and AI tools - including usage rules, anatomy, variants, accessibility, and worked examples\n\nRun audits, support product designers, and turn recurring needs into systemic improvements, working alongside the Design System Manager to evolve Purse toward our long-term vision through incremental, high-value milestones\n\nLanguage requirement: You are able to communicate well in both English and French.\nWhat do we do to make your work life easier\nYou'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\n\nWherever you are based, you will get 25 vacations days paid by Pennylane\n\nYou'll have a competitive compensation package\n\nYou'll get company shares to enjoy a piece of the success story you're building with us\n\nYou'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\n\nThrough our partner Gymlib, you'll have access to 8000 fitness spaces in Europe and more than 300 activities related to wellness\n\nYou'll have access to Busuu to perfect your English or your French\n\nYou'll get the latest Apple equipment\n\nWe 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.\n\nIf you are based in France, you will have a French contract following French regulation on top of the additional perks: 6 to 12 RTT, 5 weeks PTOs, lunch credits (Swile), Alan Blue healthcare cover and regular events in cities where Pennylaners are mostly presents (Lyon, Bordeaux, Nantes…)\n\nWe're working on providing those last advantages to our people based outside of France as well, but it can be quite more complex depending on different countries.\nWho are we looking for?\nTo thrive at Pennylane, you need:\nTo speak English (level is assessed and appreciated according to the department you're applying to)\n\nTo be energized by an ever-shifting work environment\n\nTo be highly collaborative (within your team or other stakeholders)\n\nSufficiently experienced to prioritize business-led actions on your day to day activity\n\nWe know that some people are less likely to apply than others, if they don't feel like they meet the full list of criteria.\nIf you're hesitating, we encourage you to apply: who knows, it might be the start of a meaningful and long-lasting collaboration.\nWe also want to emphasize that we fully embrace diversity, equity and inclusion and that we're doing our best to create a safe and inclusive environment.\nWe are committed to providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of gender, sexual orientation, origin, disabilities, or any other traits that make you who you are. If anything, diversity makes us a more fun place to work at.\nDonnées personnelles\nPennylane traite vos données pour gérer votre candidature et évaluer votre adéquation au poste. Si votre candidature n’aboutit pas, vos données peuvent être conservées 2 ans à compter de notre dernier échange ou de la clôture du recrutement afin de constituer & gérer un vivier de candidats. Vous pouvez vous opposer à tout moment et demander la suppression de vos données en écrivant à : . \nNotre data policy\nPersonal Data\nPennylane processes your data to manage your application and assess your suitability for the position. If your application is unsuccessful, your data may be retained for 2 years from our last exchange or the closing of the recruitment process, in order to build and manage a candidate pool. You may object at any time and request the deletion of your data by writing to . Learn more\nPersonenbezogene Daten\nPennylane verarbeitet Ihre Daten, um Ihre Bewerbung zu bearbeiten und Ihre Eignung für die Stelle zu beurteilen. Sollte Ihre Bewerbung nicht erfolgreich sein, können Ihre Daten bis zu 2 Jahre ab unserem letzten Austausch oder dem Abschluss des Rekrutierungsverfahrens gespeichert werden, um einen Kandidatenpool aufzubauen und zu verwalten. Sie können jederzeit Widerspruch einlegen und die Löschung Ihrer Daten beantragen, indem Sie an  schreiben. Mehr erfahren\nDatos personales\nPennylane trata sus datos para gestionar su candidatura y evaluar su idoneidad para el puesto. En caso de que su candidatura no sea seleccionada, sus datos podrán conservarse hasta 2 años a partir de nuestro último contacto o de la finalización del proceso de selección, con el fin de constituir y gestionar una reserva de candidatos. Puede oponerse en cualquier momento y solicitar la eliminación de sus datos escribiendo a . 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