Design Systems Lead

Ramp; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Ramp is seeking a Design Systems Lead to embed judgment into the foundations of our product. You’ll guide architecture, shape typography, hierarchy, interaction, and motion, and ensure patterns scale with design and AI-enabled workflows.

You’ll work with designers, engineers, and product agents to raise quality and build beyond components to composition, tokens, and guidance, enabling teams to deliver coherent Ramp experiences.

Responsibilities

• Make design reproducible across Ramp products and teams.
• Raise the quality of Ramp's product by encoding what makes it good for designers, engineers and agents.
• Move beyond components to composition, interaction patterns, and agent guidance, ensuring scalable impact.

Job description

About RampRamp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you've built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year - far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same. If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it.

About the Role

How we build software is changing. Designers are building tools and agents, prototyping in code, and shipping directly into the product. More people can create software than ever before. That makes design judgment more important, not less. We're looking for a Design Systems Lead to build that judgment into the foundations of Ramp. This is not just about maintaining a component library. It's about making it possible for designers, engineers, and agents to build experiences that look, feel, and work like Ramp - without a designer driving every decision or the design systems team reviewing every change. You're a designer first, with the technical depth to guide architecture and get into the code. You have exceptional taste and strong opinions about typography, hierarchy, interaction, and motion. Just as importantly, you know how to turn that judgment into patterns, tools, and guidance that make everyone else’s work better. You're deeply curious about AI and already using it to change how you work. You build, experiment, inspect the results, and push past the demo. You can imagine a different way of building software—and lead a team toward it.

This role is for you if you're excited by:

• Making great design reproducible.
• Raise the quality of Ramp's product and encode what makes it good, so people and agents can produce coherent, usable experiences by default. The system should make excellent work easier, not make every experience look the same.
• Reimagining what a design system can be. Build beyond components and tokens into composition, interaction patterns, agent guidance, and evaluations. Connect exploration and production so the fastest way to build is also a path to great quality.
• Leading a team that multiplies everyone else's impact. Create clear direction, ambitious goals, and a caring yet demanding environment. Inspire curiosity, develop people, and stay close enough to the work to help make it exceptional.

The opportunity is to raise the floor for everyone building at Ramp, while giving designers more room to make the most importa