Staff Design-Engineer | Design Systems

Responsibilities

• In this role, you'll empower our design and engineering teams to create better, more consistent experiences across all products and platforms
• You’ll evolve and maintain our design system in both design and front-end libraries, infrastructure, and documentation, and help build internal tooling to promote velocity
• As an individual contributor, you'll have the opportunity to learn from industry leaders while making a significant impact across the product
• You'll help evolve our design and front-end processes to amplify our users' voices and deliver exceptional experiences daily
• Help maintain and evolve the design and development of Ramp’s cross-platform design system
• Contribute to the design and user experience for our core product by evolving the design process through documentation and guidelines
• Work directly with product/engineering/design teams to develop and implement tooling with a focus on maintaining quality and speed
• Champion the user experience and accessibility of our products, and help keep our quality bar as high as possible
• Advocate for our users by continuously iterating on and evolving our core products and experiences
• Identify areas of improvement and deliver value to customers every day
• Collaborate with and support designers to evolve our long-term product vision, design systems, and internal design collaboration process
• Collaborate with and support engineerings with elegant and consistent component APIs and a focus on the developer experience
• Participate in day-to-day team rituals like design crit, story creation, weekly stand-ups, etc
• Help us hire more amazing people to grow the team and bring diverse perspectives to our process

Skills

• Having worked as a designer, you understand the challenges firsthand
• You're driven to improve the design-eng collaboration because you've experienced its pain points
• You excel in UI and accessible design, prefer working directly in-browser, and get excited about emerging CSS properties
• Minimum 8 years of tech/startup or digital product agency experience, or equivalent
• Strong understanding of Product Design software (pref. Figma)
• Extraordinary visual design skills and strong understanding of UX and UI principles and background in visual/interaction design
• Excellent front-end development skills in semantic HTML, CSS (up to date on latest features) and Javascript (and frameworks, pref. React)
• Experience maintaining a reusable component library and sweating the design details in code
• Strong organizational skills and a love for documentation
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, bridging the gap between design and engineering
• Ability to articulate complex concepts to technical and non-technical peers
• Solid understanding of accessibility development practices

Benefits

• 💼 Benefits (for U.S.-based Full-time Employees)
• 💉 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
• 💪 Partially covered for your dependents
• 🩺 One Medical annual membership
• 💰 401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp)
• 🏖️ Flexible PTO
• 🤰 Fertility HRA (up to $5,000 per year)
• 🏠 WFH stipend to support your home office needs
• 🧘 Wellness stipend
• 👶 Parental Leave
• 🚚 Relocation support to NYC or SF (as needed)
• 🐶 Pet insurance