Design Systems Manager

About GlossGenius

GlossGenius is building an ecosystem enabling entrepreneurs to succeed. We empower small business owners to focus on being creators, not admins, by offering a range of business management tools including booking and scheduling, marketing, analytics, payment processing and much more.

Over 95,000 small business owners have chosen to rely on GlossGenius every day to run their entire set of business operations. Joining its powerful, intuitive platform with its vibrant, distinguished brand, GlossGenius is the ideal combination of a fintech, SMB software, and consumer company all in one.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Design System Manager/Technologist to lead the next evolution of our design system. As our team scales, this role will play a critical part in defining foundational design principles, ensuring accessibility, and aligning cross-functional teams around consistent, high-quality design patterns.

You’ll partner closely with a Senior Design Systems IC, engineering, and design leadership to ensure our system not only scales—but empowers teams to deliver beautiful, accessible, and cohesive user experiences across all surfaces. This is a highly cross-functional and strategic role, ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of design and engineering, and is passionate about driving adoption, building alignment, and improving product quality and velocity.

You will report directly to our Head of Design and you must be commutable to our NYC headquarters and will operate in a hybrid environment with 2 days per week in the office (Tuesdays & Thursdays).

What You’ll Do

• Define and evolve the long-term vision and roadmap for our design system in alignment with product, design, and engineering priorities
• Lead conversations around governance, contribution models, and scaling strategy to ensure the system grows in a sustainable and impactful way
• Partner with engineers to ensure consistent and correct implementation of components and patterns across products
• Act as a bridge between design and engineering—translating interface guidelines into robust, reusable components
• Establish and uphold accessibility standards within the system and across teams
• Audit, test, and collaborate with QA/engineering to ensure our platform meets or exceeds WCAG guidelines
• Own and maintain system documentation, usage guidelines, and changelogs to support adoption
• Proactively educate teams on system updates and best practices through workshops, demos, and internal tooling
• Collaborate with and support our team of senior and staff designers and engineers contributing to the system
• Act as a mentor and resource for accessibility and system architecture

What We’re Looking For

• 5-8+ years experience in product design, front-end engineering, or design systems roles
• Deep understanding of design tokens, component libraries, and documentation systems (e.g., Storybook, Zeroheight)
• Advanced knowledge of accessibility best practices (WCAG, ARIA) and experience implementing them at scale
• Comfortable working across React or similar front-end frameworks
• Strategic thinker with strong systems design sensibility and operational know-how
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to bring clarity across disciplines
• Experience collaborating with design ops, brand, and UX teams to drive cohesion
• Bonus: experience with contribution models, governance frameworks, or internal tooling

Benefits & Perks

• Flexible PTO
• Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums partially covered by GG
• Fertility and adoption benefits via Carrot and Kindbody
• Generous, fully-paid parental leave policy
• 401k benefit - employees are eligible to contribute starting day 1 of employment
• Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Dependent Care FSA
• Home office stipend
• Team Bonding: As a distributed team, being able to build meaningful bonds both virtually and in person is incredibly important to us! We are constantly evaluating how we accomplish this and currently, teams are given opportunities to gather in person throughout the year.

The starting base salary for this role in New York, California, and Washington is between $180,000-$215,000 + target equity + benefits. The base salary offered is dependent upon many factors including skills, experience, location, and education. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Additionally, this role is currently eligible to participate in GlossGenius’s equity plan as well as a range of health & wellbeing, retirement savings, and other benefits within our total rewards offering.

At GlossGenius, we celebrate our differences and are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel supported and empowered to do their best work. We believe this benefits not only our employees but our product, customers, and community as well. GlossGenius is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.

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