Product Design Lead, Design Systems

About the role

Rippling is a company that brings together all of the workforce systems into a single system, allowing businesses to manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle. As a Lead Designer on the Design Systems team, you'll lead efforts to simplify complex workflows, define AI-based design systems, and provide regular design feedback to other designers and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead efforts to simplify a wide range of complex workflows by developing easy-to-use, highly repeatable UX patterns and components.
• Help define AI-based design systems to accelerate the work of our design team.
• Become an authority on Rippling’s design language, setting standards for our design system and how systems thinking is embedded within Rippling’s design practice.
• Provide regular design feedback to other designers and engineers on implementing and contributing to our design system, and solicit feedback from them to ensure we’re addressing product needs.
• Effectively manage your time and process to meet team deadlines.
• Create and validate designs through sketches, prototypes, and testing.
• Work with Engineering to ensure high-quality implementation and user experience.
• Create high-fidelity visuals and specifications for your final design solutions.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a design systems or product designer
• Experience defining and expanding design systems, components and patterns
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• An outstanding portfolio showcasing a depth of knowledge in user experience, interaction, and visual/user interface design.
• Experience partnering with Product Managers, Engineers, and Product Designers to execute on component deliverables.
• Experience with prototyping as a means to explore and convey design solutions.
• Experience using or building AI tools is a plus

Qualifications

• Experience with design systems and components
• Strong understanding of user experience, interaction, and visual/user interface design
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Skills

• Experience with design systems and components
• Strong understanding of user experience, interaction, and visual/user interface design
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Benefits

We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Ripping.com addresses.

Pay

The pay range for this role is: 174,000 - 290,000 USD per year (US Tier 1)

Schedule

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.