Lead Digital Designer
Ripple provides crypto and blockchain solutions for enterprises, enabling global financial entities to move, manage, and tokenize value. They focus on improving existing financial systems through partnerships and regulatory compliance, with products used in over 50 countries.
About Ripple
Ripple is an enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions company that aims to enable the world to move value as seamlessly as information moves today. Their mission is to build breakthrough crypto solutions for a world without economic borders. Using blockchain technology, Ripple facilitates global financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers to move, manage, and tokenize value, thereby unlocking greater economic opportunity. The company works within existing financial systems to improve them, partnering with customers to streamline infrastructure and collaborating with regulators to ensure solutions are secure and compliant. Ripple's products are in commercial use by hundreds of customers across more than 50 countries, helping them expand into new markets, access liquidity solutions, and generate crypto-enabled revenue streams. They also support developers by providing tools for building on the XRP Ledger, a fast and sustainable public blockchain. Ripple’s payments, custody and stablecoin solutions empower financial institutions to integrate blockchain and digital assets into their business in a simple, secure, compliant way—all in one place. From instant payments to asset tokenization, blockchain and crypto are happening right now, across the world. It’s happening to suppliers, to retailers, to exchanges, to currencies, to sectors, to industries, to markets, and to global businesses. And it’s happening with Ripple.
Skills
About the Role
You will help shape the future of our web ecosystem, building scalable systems, defining modern digital experiences, and driving how our brand shows up across the web. You'll evolve our design foundations, contribute to a large-scale website redesign, and partner closely with engineering, product, marketing, and agencies to deliver thoughtful, high-impact experiences. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who thinks in systems, cares deeply about craft, and knows how to bring clarity to complex, cross-functional work.
Requirements
- Proven experience in web or digital product design
- Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality web design and systems thinking
- Proven experience working with design systems, component libraries, and scalable frameworks
- Strong visual design foundation, including typography, layout, color, and hierarchy
- Deep understanding of responsive design, UX principles, and modern web standards
- Experience collaborating closely with engineering teams and an understanding of front-end constraints
- Ability to clearly communicate design decisions and influence cross-functional stakeholders
- Comfortable working in fast-paced environments with evolving priorities and ambiguity
- Experience designing for complex, multi-page websites or platforms
- Experience in fintech, B2B, or complex product ecosystems
- Familiarity with tools and workflows such as Storybook, design tokens, or system-driven development
- Experience contributing to or leading large-scale website redesigns
- Understanding of CRO, A/B testing, and data-informed design decision making
- Experience working with motion design, interaction design, or advanced web storytelling
- Interest in AI tools and their application in design workflows
- Experience collaborating with or managing external agencies and partners
- Exposure to both brand-driven and product-driven design environments
Responsibilities
- Lead the design of high-impact web experiences across homepage, product pages, and key user journeys
- Contribute to the evolution of a scalable design system, including tokens, components, and reusable modules for CMS system
- Partner closely with engineering to ensure design systems are translated into high-quality, production-ready implementations
- Help define and refine site architecture, navigation systems, and overall user experience frameworks
- Collaborate with brand teams to develop a modern and cohesive digital aesthetic
- Balance brand storytelling with usability, accessibility, and performance across all web experiences
- Work cross-functionally with product, marketing, and UX teams to align on goals, priorities, and user needs
- Guide and collaborate with external agencies and partners on design execution and exploration
- Support UX testing, A/B testing, and ongoing optimization efforts to continuously improve the site experience
- Help establish workflows and processes that improve speed, quality, and consistency across the web team
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexible in-office days (10+ days a month)
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting with Leadership Team
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, and happy hours
- Competitive bonuses and equity
- Health, retirement, family forming, and family support benefits
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Parental leave policies
- Family planning benefits
- Catered lunches and fully-stocked kitchens