NewProduct Design Lead, Design Systems
Apply on RipplingRippling is hiring a Staff/Principal-level designer for its Design Systems team to drive AI-powered design system work, from AI user experience patterns to internal systems that drive quality and speed. The team drives the core UX across over 40 products and builds AI tooling so designers and product teams can create advanced prototypes and production-ready code that use the design system code and best practices. The role is open to remote candidates in North America and Europe and to candidates who want to work from Rippling offices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Austin, or Toronto. For office-based employees Rippling considers working in the office at least three days a week under current policy to be an essential function of the role.
AI skillsThis role asks for AI & agentic skills, exactly what we teach at Into Design SystemsWhat you'll do
- Define what great AI-first user experiences look like and ensure those experiences are adopted across Rippling's products.
- Exercise agency over permission: drive outcomes in a wildly impatient environment with a "shipping beats demos beats memos" mindset.
- Lead platform-wide efforts to build easy-to-use, highly repeatable UX patterns.
- Drive the future of Rippling's design language and set standards for the design system and for how systems thinking is embedded in the design practice.
- Build and drive systems that ensure high quality user experience across Rippling.
- 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 final design solutions.
What they're looking for
- 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 your daily workflow. A lack of AI prototyping capability is a non-starter.
- Deep systems thinking: a proven ability to negotiate the horizontal complexity of a compound platform and build UI/UX frameworks that scale cleanly across dozens of product surfaces.
- An outstanding portfolio showcasing a depth of knowledge in user experience, interaction, and visual/user interface design.
- High-velocity execution: comfort acting as an autonomous IC who drives high-quality craft without becoming a process bottleneck or committee coordinator.
- Experience partnering with Product Managers, Engineers, and Product Designers to execute on component deliverables.
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