79K–202K EUR / year
Principal Designer
DesignHybrid — Czechia, Ireland, Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Published on 2026-10-07
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About this role
Own the design foundation used across Mews’s product division, including its design system, architectural standards, research engines, and cross-tribe tooling. Build AI-powered agents and reusable systems that encode design judgment, and help ensure design work across product tribes forms a coherent whole.
About the company
Mews builds a cloud property management platform that helps hotels run operations and improve guest experiences.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain division-wide design systems, tooling, research engines, guidelines, and standards
- Set and drive a multi-year vision for design foundations across the division
- Build AI-powered agents, skills, and tooling for designers
- Partner with Staff Designers to align design foundations across tribes
- Work with the VP on complex cross-tribe design problems
- Provide craft feedback and calibration input for Director and Staff Designer reviews
What we're looking for
- Demonstrated record of shipped, high-quality design work and strong design judgment
- Ability to think in multi-year horizons and encode strategy into systems
- Enjoyment of cross-tribe foundational work
- Experience building and shipping AI-powered products or systems, with sufficient technical understanding to make architectural decisions
- Ability to influence and amplify a VP without formal authority
Nice to have
- Experience maintaining a design system used by multiple product teams at scale
- Familiarity with agentic design tooling, AI skills, or research engines
Benefits
- Unlimited paid holiday
- Company share program
- Paid parental leave: six months for primary caregivers and two months for secondary caregivers, after one year of service
- Annual learning budget of €300, with additional budget for high performers
- Flexible hybrid working and work-from-anywhere flexibility for a few weeks each year
- Relocation options after one year
- Home office setup budget and monthly work-from-home allowance
- Claude tokens for workflow automation and productivity