Senior UX Designer, Design System

Ryan LLC; Plano (TX); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

401(k) match

Flexible work environment

Professional development

Job summary

Ryan LLC is seeking a Senior UX Designer, Design Systems to lead and evolve our design system, ensuring scalable components and consistent patterns across our digital tax products. You will own token naming, documentation, and accessibility, collaborating closely with engineers to keep implementations aligned with design.

Ideal candidates bring 5–8 years of enterprise UX design experience, deep Figma expertise, and solid HTML/CSS knowledge, with a track record in scalable design systems and

Qualifications

• 5–8 years in product/UX design with enterprise design systems experience.
• Proven ability to build, maintain, and scale component libraries used by multiple products.
• Experience with AI tools and processes that accelerate design and research.

Responsibilities

• Be the go‑to authority for our design system, setting standards for components and docs.
• Educate designers on system usage and drive trust across teams.
• Identify gaps and prioritize improvements impacting the product suite.
• Collaborate with Engineering to translate designs into code with fast feedback loops.
• Engage with Product and Visual Design to align patterns with real needs.

Skills

Design systems

Figma expertise

HTML/CSS knowledge

System thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Figma

HTML/CSS

React knowledge

Job description

Why Ryan?

• 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

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.

Ryan offers outstanding opportunities to work in a dynamic, rapidly expanding tax services firm serving the world’s most respected Global 5000 companies. Our innovative work environment, accelerated growth path for high performers, competitive benefits package, and outstanding earning potential provide the most rewarding career experience available in the industry. Ryan employees are given the freedom to do their best work in the way they work best. With a clear understanding of expectations and accountabilities, our employees are given ownership of their time and flexibility to meet the demands of their professional and personal lives.

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.

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

Experience

• 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 of HTML, CSS, and component‑based frameworks (React, etc.) being a meaningful plus

Mindset

Detail‑obsessed in a way that extends beyond aesthetics: You care about naming conventions, component states, edge cases, and the consistency of things most people never notice.

Thinks in systems: Able to see how a single component decision ripples across an entire product suite, and disciplined enough to make the right call even when the easy one is tempting.

Comfortable sitting at the intersection of design and engineering, able to speak both languages and build trust on both sides.

Perks & Culture

• Unlimited PTO, robust 401(k) match, and comprehensive benefits
• Growth opportunities within a collaborative, forward-thinking UX team
• Flexible work environment with ample opportunities for professional development

The Fine Print

This role does not have direct supervisory responsibilities but may delegate tasks to junior team members.

Work is primarily computer-based, with regular collaboration across teams, clients, and vendors.

Occasional travel of up to 10% may be required.

Ryan is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

Locations preferred: Dallas, Austin, or Burlington (MA). To help new team members get off to a strong start, this role will work in a Ryan office three days per week during their first 60 days. After that, it will adapt to a minimum of one day per week based on the needs of the role, team, and individual.

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Ryan LLC (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non‑immigrant status).

Job duties related to this role are to be conducted in a manner that adheres to privacy laws, as well as follows internal governance related to protecting confidential information and trade secrets, and to securing data and company records.

Ryan welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities.

Notice to Canada Candidates – In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and the Canadian Human Rights Act, Ryan ULC will provide accommodation, accessible formats and communication supports for the interview upon request.Ryan welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities.

Compensation Pay Transparency

• For certain California based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $124,000.00 - $163,020.00
• For other California based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $114,000.00 - $149,490.00
• For Colorado based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $109,000.00 - $142,670.00
• For Illinois based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $114,000.00 - $149,490.00
• For other Illinois based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $109,000.00 - $142,670.00
• For Maryland based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $109,000.00 - $142,670.00
• For Massachusetts based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $114,000.00 - $149,490.00
• For other Massachusetts based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $109,000.00 - $142,670.00
• For New Jersey based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $124,000.00 - $163,020.00
• For New York based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $124,000.00 - $163,020.00
• For other New York based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $103,000.00 - $135,850.00
• For Washington based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $114,000.00 - $149,490.00