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Product Design Lead, Design Systems

Rippling· Rippling Design System
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Hybrid (New York, NY), Hybrid (Seattle, WA), Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Remote, Hybrid (Toronto, Canada), Hybrid (London, United Kingdom)$174k - $280kFull-timePosted 10mo ago

About the role

Staff/Principal-level Designer to drive AI-powered design system work at Rippling, focusing on AI user experience patterns and internal systems that drive quality and speed across the platform.

Responsibilities

  • Push the boundaries of what’s possible: Defining what great AI-first user experiences look like and ensure those experiences are adopted across our products.
  • Exercise Agency over Permission: Drive outcomes in a wildly impatient environment. Adopt a "shipping beats demos beats memos" mindset.
  • Set a new bar for UX quality: Lead important platform-wide efforts to build easy-to-use, highly repeatable UX patterns.
  • Become an authority: Drive the future Rippling’s design language, setting standards for our design system and how systems thinking is embedded within Rippling’s design practice.
  • Provide design feedback at scale: Build and drive systems that ensure high quality user experience across Rippling
  • LLM-first: Use Agents and AI-based tools to drive alignment, velocity, and execution. Create high-fidelity prototypes; draft PRDs and data models; and deliver visuals and specifications for your final design solutions.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of product design or design systems experience, heavily indexing on dense B2B platforms, horizontal architectures, or complex developer tooling
  • Demonstrated AI-Native Mindset: Active use of LLMs (Claude, ChatGPT) and AI-assisted coding/prototyping tools (Cursor, Claude Code) in daily workflow
  • Deep Systems Thinking: ability to negotiate horizontal complexity of a compound platform and build UI/UX frameworks that scale across dozens of product surfaces
  • Outstanding portfolio showcasing depth in user experience, interaction, and visual/user interface design
  • High-Velocity Execution: autonomous IC who drives high-quality craft without becoming a bottleneck
  • Experience partnering with Product Managers, Engineers, and Product Designers to execute on component deliverables
  • Open to candidates who may not meet all requirements; transferable skills welcome

Skills

Required:AI-first designDesign systemsSystem thinking

Benefits

  • Competitive salary + benefits + equity
  • Diverse and inclusive workforce
  • Reasonable accommodations available upon request
  • Office-based culture with emphasis on collaboration
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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