Design Foundations & Operations Specialist

Design Foundations & Operations Specialist (Product Design):
Coordinate and operationalize design systems foundations including icons, tokens, component libraries, and workflows across multiple brands and platforms. With an accent on design-to-engineering handoffs, contribution workflows, and AI-assisted design processes. Focus on managing cross-disciplinary collaboration, ensuring delivery and adoption of design foundations, and maintaining quality metrics.

Location:

Must commute to Berlin office 3 times a week

KAYAK is a leading travel search engine and part of Booking Holdings, focused on building the best travel search experience globally.

• Coordinate design-to-engineering handoffs and track progress to ensure implementation of design foundations.
• Run and evolve contribution workflows to enable product designers company-wide to adopt and contribute to the design system.
• Maintain and publish quality metrics such as component parity, adoption rates, and deviation tracking.
• Support visual foundations work through governance, review, and hands‑on contributions.
• Partner with leadership to translate brand direction into systematic, reusable design guidance.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate design workflows and improve asset implementation.

• Must be able to commute to Berlin office 3 times a week
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• 5+ years experience in product design organizations with strong design systems fluency.
• Experience coordinating delivery across teams and managing handoffs without formal authority.
• Proficiency with Figma, design tokens, component libraries, and front-end workflows like Storybook and Git Hub.
• Hands‑on experience using AI tools in design workflows.
• Strong visual judgment and ability to maintain quality and brand alignment.

• 6 weeks paid vacation and up to 20 days work from anywhere per year.
• Company-paid therapy sessions and Head Space subscription.
• Company‑wide week off annually and no meeting Fridays.
• Paid parental leave and volunteer time.
• Career growth support with development budgets and leadership programs.
• Travel discounts, employee resource groups, free lunch twice a week, pension contributions, and public transport subsidies.
• Bike leasing, social events, massages, and an office located in Friedrichshain, Berlin.