Senior Design Engineer, Design System

Celonis
Munich
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Skills: ["Ownership","Leadership","Mentorship","Communication","Collaboration"]

Build and scale an enterprise-grade design system for a process intelligence platform, translating complex process data and AI-driven behaviors into intuitive, high-performance operator experiences. Own interaction decisions, component design, and front-end architecture end-to-end. Set technical/craft standards for quality, motion, performance, and accessibility while driving rapid prototyping, maintaining tokens-as-code for AI agent consumption, and ensuring UI checks run in CI.

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Senior Design Engineer, Design System

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Job Summary

Build and scale an enterprise-grade design system for a process intelligence platform, translating complex process data and AI-driven behaviors into intuitive, high-performance operator experiences. Own interaction decisions, component design, and front-end architecture end-to-end. Set technical/craft standards for quality, motion, performance, and accessibility while driving rapid prototyping, maintaining tokens-as-code for AI agent consumption, and ensuring UI checks run in CI.
Location: Munich
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and build production components in Angular/TypeScript for the design system, grounded in semantic HTML/CSS and token-driven design.
  • •Own interaction decisions, component design, and front-end architecture end-to-end, translating ambiguous requirements into usable UX.
  • •Translate process-intelligence data and AI-driven behaviors into clear, intuitive, high-performance operator experiences.
  • •Set standards for front-end quality, craft, polish, motion/animation, performance, and accessibility across the team.
  • •Make the system agent-ready by maintaining tokens-as-code (W3C DTCG format), authoring Figma Code Connect mappings, and adding CI guardrails like visual regression and accessibility checks.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:RsusParental LeavePaid LeaveLearning BudgetGym Membership

Key Requirements

  • •Around 5–8 years across design engineering / UX engineering / front-end, including significant hands-on design system or component library experience in SaaS/B2B.
  • •Excellent UX instincts with strong interaction detail and usability; able to own design decisions independently with minimal oversight.
  • •Strong production front-end skills in Angular and TypeScript with solid HTML and CSS fundamentals; React experience is a plus.
  • •Deep understanding of design token architecture and modern token pipelines.
  • •Strong Figma fluency and demonstrated accessibility expertise (WCAG 2.2) implemented in code.
Experience:SaaSB2B
Skills:OwnershipLeadershipMentorshipCommunicationCollaboration
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AngularTypeScriptReactHTMLCSSARIADesign tokensFigmaW3C DTCGStyle DictionaryTokens StudioFigma Code ConnectCIWCAG 2.2Figma MakeV0CursorClaude CodeCopilotModel Context Protocol

Company Brief

Celonis
Provides cloud-based process mining and execution management software that helps organizations visualize, analyze, and optimize business processes to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and accelerate operational transformation across enterprise systems.
Industry: SaaS
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Munich, Germany
Founded: 2011
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