Product Design Lead, Design System

About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, and with offices in New York and Bangalore, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About the Role

The Rippling Design System team is responsible for ensuring every product at Rippling has an exceptional and unified user experience. Design Systems does this by developing the key building blocks used by our entire product suite and developing a system that our design, engineering, and product teams can leverage quickly and effectively. Because Design Systems is at the heart of the Rippling Platform, this is one of the highest-impact positions at Rippling. Our platform approach is a key differentiator in a world of otherwise-fragmented business applications. Read more about the Rippling Platform at https://www.rippling.com/platform. 

As a Product Design Lead, you'll execute on high-impact projects on the Design Systems team. You'll work with many teams across Rippling to drive key, platform-wide projects and design components that will be adopted into the Rippling platform that will become exceptional experiences for Rippling’s end users. You will be working very closely with the Frontend-Platform team to help build and manage our global design language and library of components. Your work will enable all the teams at Rippling to move quickly and at great scale, while maintaining our high-quality bar.

What You Will Do

• 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.
• Lead the design of high-impact patterns, component redesigns, and cross-cutting features of our design system.
• Level up the design team by helping mentor other designers, defining processes as we scale, participating in designer interviews, and leading by example in how you operate on a team.
• Collaborate with different partners to design components in accordance with your team's roadmap.
• Effectively manage your time and process to meet team deadlines.
• Create and validate designs through sketches, prototypes, and testing.
• Work with Engineering to ensure quality implementation and user experience.
• Create high-fidelity visuals and specifications for your final design solutions.
• 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.

What You Will Need

• 5+ years of experience as a design system designer or product designer, contributing to or leading the design and visual execution of product experiences. 
• Experience with design systems experience is highly preferred.
• B.A/B.S. in Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or equivalent experience (a degree is not required)
• An outstanding portfolio showcasing a depth of knowledge in user experience, interaction, and visual/user interface design.
• Experience shipping and documenting high-quality component libraries.
• 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.

Even if you don’t meet all of the requirements listed here, we still encourage you to apply. Skills can be used in lots of different ways and your life and professional experience may be relevant beyond what a list of requirements will capture.