Design Systems Lead
Ramp is an AI-powered financial operations platform for businesses, combining corporate cards, expense management, bill payments, accounting automation, procurement, travel, treasury, and related finance workflows.
About Ramp
Ramp is a privately held New York financial-services company founded in 2019. Its platform combines corporate cards, spend and expense management, bill payments, accounting automation, procurement, travel, treasury, and other financial-operations services. Ramp reports serving more than 70,000 companies.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead and develop the design systems team, setting priorities, ownership, goals, and quality expectations. You will define the system vision; create reusable patterns, guidance, and quality evaluations; and improve visual design, interaction design, accessibility, and responsive behavior. You will guide technical architecture with engineers, build prototypes in code, support AI-enabled design workflows, and drive adoption across product teams.
Requirements
- Have experience leading and developing design or design engineering teams
- Demonstrate exceptional visual and interaction design skills
- Have systems-thinking experience building adopted design systems
- Prototype and build in code and understand front-end architecture
- Use AI hands-on in design and building workflows
- Turn design principles into reusable guidance, patterns, and quality checks
- Apply strong product judgment to real workflows and customer outcomes
- Create clarity in ambiguity, make decisions, and give feedback
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the design systems team
- Set priorities, ownership, goals, and quality expectations
- Own the design system vision and direction
- Elevate visual and interaction design, accessibility, responsive behavior, and product states
- Translate design principles into reusable patterns, reference experiences, composition rules, and guidance
- Guide technical architecture for components, tokens, agent guidance, interface composition, and quality checks
- Build prototypes and work in code to test ideas and unblock implementation
- Define repeatable quality evaluations and measure outcomes
- Partner with engineering and AI teams to improve workflows from idea to shipped experience
- Drive adoption through product-team collaboration, examples, and system improvements
- Experiment with evolving models and tools and adjust direction based on evidence
Benefits
- Flexible PTO
- Centralized home-office equipment ordering
- Health and wellness stipend
- Budget for intra-office travel
- Weekly coffee stipend
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage
- One Medical annual membership
- 401(k) employer match
- Fertility HRA
- Paid parental leave
- Pet insurance
- In-office meals, snacks, and drinks
- Relocation expense coverage to NYC or SF