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Design Systems Lead

Ramp· Engineering
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Hybrid (New York, NY (HQ)), Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (Remote (US))Full-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Design Systems Lead at Ramp focused on building a scalable design system that enables designers, engineers, and agents to create cohesive Ramp experiences. Leads a design systems team, defines vision, elevates visual/interaction design, and collaborates with engineering and AI teams while staying hands-on.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop the design systems team. Set clear priorities, ownership, and goals. Give direct, timely feedback, hold people accountable, and help them do the best work of their careers.
  • Own the system’s vision and direction. Decide what to preserve, evolve, simplify, or replace based on what builders and customers need. Turn that direction into focused work the team can deliver.
  • Elevate Ramp’s visual and interaction design. Raise the bar for typography, hierarchy, density, motion, responsive behavior, accessibility, and the states beyond the happy path.
  • Make design judgment usable by people and agents. Translate principles into reusable patterns, reference experiences, composition rules, and guidance that produce better work without you in the room.
  • Guide technical architecture with engineering. Shape everything from components and tokens to how agents discover guidance, compose interfaces, and check their work. Make sound tradeoffs between flexibility, coherence, performance, and ease of use.
  • Stay hands-on. Build prototypes, work in code, and get into implementation details to test ideas, unblock the team, and understand where the system breaks down.
  • Define and measure quality. Build repeatable evaluations grounded in real tasks. Measure whether builders can ship better work faster, with less rework—not just whether they use the tools.
  • Improve the path from idea to shipped experience. Partner with engineering and AI teams on workflows that support fast exploration, useful iteration, and appropriate production safeguards.
  • Earn adoption. Work alongside product teams, listen closely, teach through examples, and turn recurring questions and exceptions into improvements to the system.
  • Keep the team moving forward. Experiment as models and tools evolve, share what you learn, and change direction when the evidence calls for it.

Qualifications

  • Experience leading and developing strong design or design engineering teams, with a track record of setting direction and delivering meaningful outcomes.
  • Exceptional visual and interaction design skills. Your work shows a clear point of view, attention to detail, and an ability to make complex experiences feel simple.
  • Deep systems thinking and experience building systems that other teams actually adopt. You can show how your work improved both their speed and the quality of what shipped.
  • Strong technical fluency. You can prototype and build in code, understand front-end architecture, and work through implementation tradeoffs with engineers—not just hand off specifications.
  • Active, hands-on use of AI in your design and building workflow. You understand where it helps, where it fails, and how to improve its output rather than accept it.
  • Experience turning design principles into practical guidance, reusable patterns, and quality checks that work at scale.
  • Strong product judgment and a habit of staying close to the people using what you build. You connect system decisions to real workflows and customer outcomes.
  • The ability to create clarity in ambiguity, make decisions, give difficult feedback, and maintain momentum without losing the quality bar.
  • Curiosity that borders on obsession about how AI changes software and how we build it—and the ability to ignite that curiosity in others.

Skills

Required:Design leadershipVisual and interaction designDesign systemsFrontend prototyping in codeAI in design

Benefits

  • Flexible PTO
  • Centralized home-office equipment ordering
  • Health and wellness stipend
  • Budget for intra-office travel
  • Weekly coffee stipend
  • United States: 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you, with partial coverage for dependents
  • One Medical annual membership
  • 401(k), including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp
  • Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year)
  • Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay
  • Pet insurance
  • In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more
  • Relocation expense coverage to NYC or SF (if needed)
  • Canada: Group medical, dental, and vision coverage through Sun Life; Life, AD&D, and disability coverage; Fertility drug coverage (up to $4,000 lifetime); Group Retirement Plan with employer match; Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay, with additional time available at reduced pay; Employee Assistance Program and virtual care through Lumino Health
  • United Kingdom: Private medical insurance through Freedom Elite; Virtual GP and at-home care via eMed x Livi; Workplace pension through Penfold, with salary sacrifice option; Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay with additional time available at reduced pay
Last updated Oct 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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