Design Systems Lead

Ramp

New York, United States Posted October 8, 2026

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On-site Full-time Mid level
Salary Range

$280,000 - $385,000

Job Description

Join Ramp as a Design Systems Lead, where you'll build the foundation of our design system and elevate the quality of our product. You'll lead a team, guide technical architecture, and stay hands-on with implementation. This role offers comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) with employer match, unlimited PTO, and more.

  • Concevoir et diriger le développement d'un système de design qui améliore la qualité des produits Ramp.
  • Travailler en étroite collaboration avec les équipes de conception et d'ingénierie pour garantir que le système de design est adopté et utilisé efficacement.
  • Diriger et développer l'équipe des systèmes de design, en fixant des priorités claires et en fournissant des retours d'information directs.
  • 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
  • Experience turning design principles into practical guidance, reusable patterns, and quality checks that work at scale
  • Curiosity that borders on obsession about how AI changes software and how we build it—and the ability to ignite that curiosity in others
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 leading and developing strong design or design engineering teams, with a track record of setting direction and delivering meaningful outcomes
  • Experience building agent-usable design guidance, generation workflows, or evaluations for design quality
  • Experience building developer or designer tools that became part of other teams’ daily workflow
  • Experience leading a major design-system migration or company-wide change in how teams build
  • Founder or early-stage startup experience
  • Experience evolving a system across platforms or connecting product and brand experiences
Required Skills
collaboration attention to detail
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