Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

Who we are:  Want to make an impact? Join our pack and come work (and play) with us.
We believe everyone deserves the unconditional love of a pet—and at Rover, our mission is to make it easier to experience that love. Founded in 2011, the Rover app and website connect dog and cat parents with loving pet sitters and dog walkers in neighborhoods across the US, Canada, and Europe. We empower our community of trusted pet sitters and dog walkers to run their own pet care businesses on Rover with the tools and security of a global company to back them.
Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, we work closely with our teams in Barcelona, San Antonio, Spokane, and remote locations. We've got a reputation for being a great place to work, having been named among the 100 Best Companies to Work For in Seattle Business Magazine and Washington's Best Workplaces in the Puget Sound Business Journal. We're an agile, fast-growing company, and our leadership comes from some of the world's most respected tech companies. 
At Rover, our furry coworkers are just as important as our human ones—and we wouldn't have it any other way. Along with making the joys of pet parenthood more accessible, we're committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community of pet people—and that starts with our employees.
About the team: Our Product Design team is a collaborative group of designers and researchers working together to deliver seamless customer experiences across Rover's global platform. We work closely with product, engineering, brand, accessibility, and business partners to build experiences that are intuitive, scalable, and customer-focused across web, iOS, and Android. We are deeply invested in making Rover's marketplace consistent, accessible, and trustworthy as we continue to grow.
Who we are looking for: Rover is seeking a Design Systems Designer to join our growing UX team in Barcelona. In this role, you'll own and evolve our design system, Kibble, to help Rover scale product experiences across brands, platforms, and new business models. You will partner closely with product designers, platform engineers, accessibility specialists, and product managers to ensure Rover's design system drives consistency, efficiency, accessibility, and high-quality experiences across our growing global ecosystem.
This is a highly collaborative role where you'll establish governance processes, build documentation, create measurement frameworks, and actively contribute to component evolution. You will play a key role in helping Rover scale our design practice to support multiple brands and business models, such as our partnerships with Bright Horizons and Cat in a Flat.
Your Responsibilities:

• Own and evolve the Kibble design system to scale Rover's product experiences across brands, platforms, and markets
• Conduct design system audits to identify gaps, inconsistencies, design debt, and accessibility issues
• Establish and manage design system governance, contribution processes, and system documentation
• Develop scalable token strategies and multi-brand theming approaches to support new partnerships and acquisitions
• Build measurement frameworks to monitor system adoption, design consistency, and system health over time
• Collaborate with product designers to ensure proper system usage, provide design reviews, and document exceptions
• Partner closely with platform engineering to evolve component architecture, ensure design-to-code alignment, and reduce redundant custom code
• Integrate accessibility standards into system components and collaborate with accessibility specialists to ensure compliance
• Develop and maintain system documentation, guidelines, and onboarding resources for design and engineering teams
• Serve as an advocate for system adoption through education, training, and ongoing communication
• Support the long-term roadmap for design system growth alongside design and engineering leadership
  

Your Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in product design, with significant experience building or maintaining design systems
• Deep knowledge of design system principles, scalable component architecture, and design-to-code handoff processes
• Strong collaboration experience working cross-functionally with engineering, accessibility, brand, and product partners
• Experience establishing governance models, contribution workflows, and documentation standards for design systems
• Working knowledge of design tokens, theming, and scalable design architectures that support multi-brand environments
• Working knowledge of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, basic JavaScript or React) and how design decisions translate into code
• Solid experience with Figma and system management tools such as Storybook, ZeroHeight, or similar
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to document standards and educate teams
• Passion for accessibility and incorporating inclusive design standards into system evolution
• Highly collaborative mindset with attention to detail and long-term system scalability
• Familiarity with accessibility auditing tools and WCAG standards
• Professional-level English skills; ability to collaborate with global teams
  

Nice to Have:

• Experience supporting multi-brand design systems or internationalized products
• Experience working in two-sided marketplace businesses
• Experience working directly with platform engineering teams on system architecture
  

Benefits of Working at

• Competitive compensation
• Permanent contract
• Equity
• Private health insurance
• Discounted gym access (via AJ by Gympass)
• Bring your dog to work (and unlimited puppy time)
• Monetary help for adopting a dog plus yearly credit to use on our platform
• Snacks, fresh fruit, and monthly company lunches
• Regular team activities, including happy hours, game nights, and more
  Applicants must have the right to work in the European Union

Rover is an equal-opportunity employer committed to promoting a diverse, inclusive, and inventive environment with the best employees. We're driven by seeing our people succeed and grow, and we work to ensure everyone contributes to their fullest potential. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, protected veteran status, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

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