Rho is hiring a Staff or Principal Product Designer to own its design system, the governed, in-code foundation the product is built on. This role sits within the design team, partnering closely with the frontend guild and engineers. It owns architecture, tokens, governance and the standards that let 80+ engineers and PMs ship without a designer reviewing every pixel.
What you'll do
- Own the design system's architecture, tokens, primitives and motion language
- Own the governance model and contribution standards
- Set standards letting 80+ engineers and PMs ship on bar independently
- Partner with the frontend guild, engineers and design team as equals
- Decide what a component is, how it behaves and where it must not bend
- Set the craft bar for the entire org
- Build the system that makes hitting that bar the path of least resistance
What we're looking for
- At least 7 years of product design experience
- Real design systems ownership at scale, not just contribution
- Genuine taste in branding, typography, motion and microinteractions
- Systems thinking: primitives, states, edge cases, two-way doors
- Ability to ship fast and share work in progress
- Low ego combined with high craft standards
- Understanding of dense, multi-role, permission-scoped financial workflows
Good to know
- In-person role based in New York
- Staff or Principal level position