Summary

We are seeking a Systems Designer-Engineer motivated by the opportunity to learn from an exceptional team and define how designers and engineers work together to deliver exceptional experiences incredibly quickly—a ground-floor opportunity in a design-driven company. This role will be responsible for empowering our design and engineering teams to deliver better, more consistent experiences across all our products and platforms. You’ll evolve and maintain our design system in design and front-end libraries, infrastructure, and documentation and help build internal tooling to promote velocity.

This is a role for an individual contributor with a genuine desire to learn from the best and have a significant impact across the entire product, brand, and marketing. You will evolve our design and front-end processes that champion our users’ voices and ship incredible experiences daily.

What You’ll Do

1. Help maintain and evolve the design and development of Ramp’s cross-platform design system
2. Contribute to the design and user experience for our core product by evolving the design process through documentation and guidelines
3. Work directly with product/engineering/design teams to develop and implement tooling with a focus on maintaining quality and speed
4. Champion the user experience and accessibility of our products, and help keep our quality bar as high as possible
5. 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.
6. Collaborate with and support designers to evolve our long-term product vision, design systems, and internal design collaboration process
7. Collaborate with and support engineerings with elegant and consistent component APIs and a focus on the developer experience
8. Participate in day-to-day team rituals like design crit, story creation, weekly stand-ups, etc.
9. Help us hire more amazing people to grow the team and bring diverse perspectives to our process

What You Need

1. Minimum 5 years of tech/startup or digital product agency experience or equivalent
2. Strong understanding of Product Design software (pref. Figma) 
3. Extraordinary visual design skills and a strong understanding of UX and UI principles and background in visual/interaction design
4. Excellent front-end development skills in semantic HTML, CSS (up to date on latest features), and Javascript (and frameworks, pref. React)
5. Experience maintaining a reusable component library and sweating the design details in code
6. Strong organizational skills and a love for documentation
7. Excellent communication and collaboration skills, bridging the gap between design and engineering

Nice to Haves

1. Ability to articulate complex concepts to technical and non-technical peers
2. Solid understanding of accessibility development practices

Skills

• Communications Skills
• Development
• Product Design
• React
• Team Collaboration
• UX/UI Design
• Visual Design