Design Foundations & Operations Specialist

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is a leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car and vacation package. We’re also transforming business travel with a new corporate travel solution, KAYAK for Business.

As an employee of KAYAK, you will be part of a travel company that operates a portfolio of global metasearch brands including momondo, Cheapflights and HotelsCombined, among others. From start-up to industry leader, innovation is at our core and every employee has an opportunity to make their mark. Our focus is on building the best travel search engine to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

KAYAK is looking for a Design Foundations & Operations Specialist to join our Design Language and Systems team. This role adds operational resilience to a team that builds the foundations every designer and engineer at KAYAK relies on: icons, illustrations, motion, tokens, component libraries, and the systems that hold them together across brands and platforms.

The scope isn't limited to design systems. This role is connective tissue between design systems, design language, UX research, operations, and individual product design pods across the company. You'll keep the team's work on track and visible, coordinate across disciplines, and make sure what gets designed actually gets built, shipped, and used.

This isn't a pure process role. You need to be fluent in design systems craft — not as the primary contributor, but because you need to understand what the team is building, where the goals are heading, and how to move things toward them. Someone who loses touch with the work can't coordinate it well.

If you think in systems, care about how teams operate at scale, and want to shape how a product design organization delivers, this is the job.

This role requires you to commute to our Berlin office 3 times a week.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

- Coordinate de...