Design Systems Lead — AI-Driven UX Platform

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive salary

Benefits

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a Lead Designer for the Design Systems team to drive high-impact projects and build scalable UX patterns across 40+ product teams. You will shape advanced design components and AI-driven experiences that integrate into the Rippling platform, collaborating with frontend and product peers to raise the bar on quality and consistency.

As a Lead Designer, you’ll craft and evolve Rippling’s design language, mentor designers, and push for production-ready designs with strong visual

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in design systems or product design.
• Experience defining and expanding design systems, components and patterns.
• Outstanding portfolio showcasing UX, interaction, and visual/UI design.
• Experience partnering with Product Managers, Engineers, and Designers to execute on component deliverables.
• Experience with prototyping as a means to explore and convey design solutions.
• Experience using or building AI tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead efforts to simplify complex workflows by developing easy-to-use, highly repeatable UX patterns and components.
• Help define AI-based design systems to accelerate the work of our design team.
• Become an authority on Rippling’s design language, setting standards for our design system and how systems thinking is embedded within Rippling’s design practice.
• Provide regular design feedback to other designers and engineers on implementing and contributing to our design system, and solicit feedback from them to ensure we’re addressing product needs.
• Effectively manage your time and process to meet team deadlines.
• Create and validate designs through sketches, prototypes, and testing.
• Work with Engineering to ensure high-quality implementation and user experience.
• Create high-fidelity visuals and specifications for your final design solutions.

Skills

Design systems

Component patterns

Prototyping

Portfolio

Cross-functional collaboration

AI tools experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Rippling is seeking a Lead Designer for the Design Systems team to drive high-impact projects and build scalable UX patterns across 40+ product teams. You will shape advanced design components and AI-driven experiences that integrate into the Rippling platform, collaborating with frontend and product peers to raise the bar on quality and consistency.

As a Lead Designer, you’ll craft and evolve Rippling’s design language, mentor designers, and push for production-ready designs with strong visual