New York City, NY, USA On-site

Ramp is hiring a Staff Design-Engineer | Design Systems Tooling

About the Role

Ramp is seeking a Staff Design-Engineer | Design Systems Tooling. This is a ground-floor opportunity in our design-driven company to learn from an exceptional team and shape how designers and engineers collaborate to deliver outstanding experiences rapidly. You'll empower our design and engineering teams to create better, more consistent experiences across all products and platforms by building, evolving, and maintaining our design-to-engineering collaboration tools to boost team velocity.

What You'll Do

  • Help maintain and evolve the design and development of Ramp’s cross-platform design system
  • Contribute to the design and user experience for our core product by evolving the design process through documentation and guidelines
  • Work directly with product, engineering, and design teams to develop and implement tooling with a focus on maintaining quality and speed
  • Champion the user experience and accessibility of our products, and help keep our quality bar as high as possible
  • Advocate for our users by continuously iterating on and evolving our core products and experiences
  • Collaborate with and support designers to evolve our long-term product vision, design systems, and internal design collaboration process
  • Collaborate with and support engineers with elegant and consistent component APIs and a focus on the developer experience
  • Participate in day-to-day team rituals like design crit, story creation, and weekly stand-ups
  • Help us hire more amazing people to grow the team and bring diverse perspectives to our process

What We're Looking For

  • Minimum 8 years of tech/startup or digital product agency experience, or equivalent
  • Strong understanding of Product Design software (preferably Figma)
  • Extraordinary visual design skills and strong understanding of UX and UI principles with a background in visual/interaction design
  • Excellent front-end development skills in semantic HTML, CSS (up to date on latest features) and Javascript (and frameworks, preferably React)
  • Experience maintaining a reusable component library and sweating the design details in code
  • Strong organizational skills and a love for documentation
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, bridging the gap between design and engineering

Nice to Have

  • Ability to articulate complex concepts to technical and non-technical peers
  • Solid understanding of accessibility development practices

Technical Stack

  • Figma
  • Semantic HTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript
  • React

Benefits & Compensation

  • 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
  • Partially covered for your dependents
  • One Medical annual membership
  • 401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp)
  • Flexible PTO
  • Fertility HRA (up to $5,000 per year)
  • WFH stipend to support your home office needs
  • Wellness stipend
  • Parental Leave
  • Relocation support to NYC or SF
  • Pet insurance

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Required Skills
Figmasemantic HTMLCSSJavaScriptReactdesign systemscomponent librariesweb accessibilityTypeScriptStorybookperformance optimizationdeveloper experienceAPI design Figmasemantic HTMLCSSJavaScriptReactdesign systemscomponent librariesweb accessibilityTypeScriptStorybookperformance optimizationdeveloper experienceAPI design
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Ramp
Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. They automate how over $100B in annualized spend flows in and out of 50,000+ companies by authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books.
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Posted 9 months ago