The opportunity
How we build software is changing. Designers are building tools and agents, prototyping in code, and shipping directly into the product.
What you'll do
Lead and develop the design systems team. Set clear priorities, ownership,: and goals. Give direct, timely feedback, hold people accountable, and help them do the best work of their careers.
Own the system’s vision and direction. Decide what to preserve, evolve,: simplify, or replace based on what builders and customers need. Turn that direction into focused work the team can deliver.
Elevate Ramp’s visual and interaction design. Raise the bar for typography,: hierarchy, density, motion, responsive behavior, accessibility, and the states beyond the happy path.
Make design judgment usable by people and agents. Translate principles into: reusable patterns, reference experiences, composition rules, and guidance that produce better work without you in the room.
Guide technical architecture with engineering. Shape everything from: components and tokens to how agents discover guidance, compose interfaces, and check their work. Make sound tradeoffs between flexibility, coherence, performance, and ease of use.
Stay hands-on. Build prototypes, work in code, and get into implementation: details to test ideas, unblock the team, and understand where the system breaks down.
What they're looking for
- Define and measure quality. Build repeatable evaluations grounded in real: tasks. Measure whether builders can ship better work faster, with less rework—not just whether they use the tools.
- Improve the path from idea to shipped experience. Partner with engineering: and AI teams on workflows that support fast exploration, useful iteration, and appropriate production safeguards.
- Earn adoption. Work alongside product teams, listen closely, teach through: examples, and turn recurring questions and exceptions into improvements to the system.
- Keep the team moving forward. Experiment as models and tools evolve, share: what you learn, and change direction when the evidence calls for it.
