Senior UX Designer, Design System

Ryan; Burlington (MA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Options

Award-Winning Culture

Generous PTO benefits

14 weeks paid parental leave (adoption

Gym membership reimbursement

Benefits eligibility on Day One

401K with employer match

Tuition reimbursement after one year

Fertility assistance

Sabbatical eligibility after five yrs

Job summary

Ryan, LLC is seeking a Senior UX Designer, Design Systems to own and evolve the design system powering our enterprise tax products. You’ll ensure components are sharp, patterns consistent, and the system scalable as the product grows.

This craft-first role emphasizes obsession with token naming, documentation clarity, and collaboration with engineers. You’ll work with designers and product to align patterns with real needs and drive governance across the design system.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of product/UX design, with enterprise design system ownership.
• Proven track record in building and scaling component libraries.
• Experience in financial/enterprise/B2B sectors is a plus.
• Experience with AI tools to accelerate design and research.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain a library of reusable components in Figma.
• Own token and variable architecture in Figma and sync with engineering.
• Write practical documentation for components and patterns.
• Integrate accessibility into the system by default (WCAG/ARIA/contrast).

Skills

Figma

Design Systems

Portfolio

AI tools

Tools

Figma

Job description

• Hybrid Work Options
• Award-Winning Culture
• Generous Personal Time Off (PTO) Benefits
• 14-Weeks of 100% Paid Leave for New Parents (Adoption Included)
• Monthly Gym Membership Reimbursement OR Gym Equipment Reimbursement
• Benefits Eligibility Effective Day One
• 401K with Employer Match
• Tuition Reimbursement After One Year of Service
• Fertility Assistance Program
• Four-Week Company-Paid Sabbatical Eligibility After Five Years of Service

Why Ryan?

About Us

Ryan, LLC is a global leader in tax services and technology solutions, recognized consistently as one of the Best Places to Work by Fortune and Glassdoor. We help clients unlock capital, enabling growth, investment, and innovation.

The Role

We're seeking a Senior UX Designer, Design Systems to own and evolve the design system that powers our suite of digital tax products. You'll be the person who keeps our components sharp, our patterns consistent, and our system scalable as the product grows.

This is a craft-first individual contributor role for a designer who obsesses over the details others overlook: token naming, component behavior, documentation clarity, and the kind of systematic thinking that makes a design system usable at scale. You have UX breadth to understand how the system serves the products built on top of it, and technical curiosity to collaborate fluently with the engineers who consume it.

All candidates must include a digital portfolio or link in their application.

How You’ll Contribute

Influence

• Be the go-to authority for our design system, setting and maintaining the standard for how components are built, named, documented, and used across the team
• Educate and support designers across the team on system usage, contributing to a culture where the design system is understood, trusted, and consistently applied
• Identify gaps, inconsistencies, and debt within the system, prioritizing and advocating for improvements that have the highest impact across the product suite

Collaborate

• Work closely with Engineering to ensure design system components translate accurately into code, maintaining a tight feedback loop between what's designed and what's built
• Partner with product designers to understand how the system is being used in practice, incorporating real-world feedback into how components and patterns evolve
• Engage with Product and Visual Design to ensure new patterns are grounded in real product needs and aligned with our visual standards before they enter the system
• Serve as a critical partner in design system governance, bringing the design and craft perspective to all governance discussions

Deliver

• Design, build, and maintain a library of reusable components in Figma that are well-structured, thoroughly documented, and ready for both designers and developers to use with confidence
• Own our token and variable architecture in Figma, keeping it clean, scalable, and synchronized with what engineering is implementing in code
• Write and maintain clear, practical documentation for components and patterns, covering usage guidelines, do's and don'ts, and implementation notes that engineers can actually build from
• Bake accessibility into the system from the ground up making compliance the default rather than an afterthought (i.e. you know WCAG, ARIA, contrast ratios, and more)

What We’re Looking For

• 5-8 years of product/UX design experience, with meaningful time spent owning or significantly contributing to a enterprise-level design system used by multiple products
• Proven track record of building, maintaining, and scaling component libraries that are adopted and trusted by product teams
• Financial, enterprise, or B2B background is a plus
• Demonstrated ability with AI tools and processes that accelerate design and research (e.g., Claude, Figma Make, Lovable etc)

Skills

• Portfolio or work samples that demonstrate design system thinking and execution
• Deep Figma expertise in variables, tokens, component properties, auto-layout, and library management
• Solid understanding of how design systems translate into code, with working knowledge