Ryan is hiring a Senior UX Designer, Design Systems to own and evolve the design system behind its suite of digital tax products. This is a craft-first individual contributor role responsible for keeping components, patterns, and documentation consistent and scalable.
What you'll do
- Be the go-to authority for the design system, setting standards for components built, named, documented, and used
- Educate and support designers across the team on system usage
- Identify gaps, inconsistencies, and debt within the system, prioritising high-impact improvements
- Work closely with Engineering to ensure components translate accurately into code
- Partner with product designers to incorporate real-world feedback into components and patterns
- Engage with Product and Visual Design to ground new patterns in product needs and visual standards
- Serve as a critical partner in design system governance
- Design, build, and maintain a library of reusable components in Figma
- Own token and variable architecture in Figma, synchronised with engineering implementation
- Write and maintain documentation for components and patterns, including usage guidelines and implementation notes
- Bake accessibility into the system from the ground up
What we're looking for
- 5–8 years of product/UX design experience owning or contributing to an enterprise-level design system
- Track record building, maintaining, and scaling component libraries adopted by product teams
- Demonstrated ability with AI tools and processes that accelerate design and research
- Portfolio or work samples demonstrating design system thinking and execution
- Deep Figma expertise in variables, tokens, component properties, auto-layout, and library management
- Understanding of how design systems translate into code, with working knowledge of HTML and CSS
- Detail-obsessed approach to naming conventions, component states, and edge cases
- Systems thinking, seeing how component decisions ripple across a product suite
- Comfort sitting at the intersection of design and engineering
Nice to have
- Financial, enterprise, or B2B background
- Working knowledge of component-based frameworks such as React
Good to know
- Office three days per week during first 60 days, then minimum one day per week
- Locations preferred: Dallas, Austin, or Burlington (MA)
- No direct supervisory responsibilities, may delegate to junior team members