Product Design Lead, Design Systems

About the role

The Rippling Design System team is responsible for ensuring every product at Rippling has a high-quality and cohesive user experience. Design Systems does this by developing the high-quality building blocks and UX patterns used by over 40 product teams. The Design Systems team also builds advanced AI tooling to ensure designers and product teams can build advanced prototypes and production-ready code based on our design system. Because Design Systems is at the heart of the Rippling Platform, this is one of the highest-impact positions at Rippling.

What You Will Do

• 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.

What You Will Need

• 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