Principal Product Designer, Design Systems Lead

The role

The Design Systems Lead will lead and develop a design systems team to build foundations for designers, engineers, and agents. You will own the system's vision, elevate visual and interaction design, and guide technical architecture with engineering.

What you will do

• Lead and develop the design systems team.
• Set clear priorities, ownership, and goals.
• Own the system's vision and direction.
• Elevate Ramp's visual and interaction design.
• Make design judgment usable by people and agents.
• Guide technical architecture with engineering.
• Stay hands-on by building prototypes and working in code.
• Define and measure quality through repeatable evaluations.
• Improve the path from idea to shipped experience.
• Earn adoption by working alongside product teams.

Required qualifications

• Experience leading and developing strong design or design engineering teams.
• Exceptional visual and interaction design skills.
• Deep systems thinking and experience building systems that other teams adopt.
• Strong technical fluency to prototype and build in code.
• Active, hands-on use of AI in design and building workflow.
• Experience turning design principles into practical guidance and reusable patterns.
• Strong product judgment.
• Ability to create clarity in ambiguity and give difficult feedback.
• Curiosity about how AI changes software and how to build it.

Nice to have

• Experience building agent-usable design guidance, generation workflows, or evaluations for design quality.
• Experience building developer or designer tools that became part of other teams' daily workflow.
• Experience leading a major design-system migration or company-wide change.
• Experience evolving a system across platforms or connecting product and brand experiences.
• Founder or early-stage startup experience.

Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• Centralized home-office equipment ordering
• Health and wellness stipend
• Budget for intra-office travel
• Weekly coffee stipend
• 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you, with partial coverage for dependents
• One Medical annual membership
• 401(k), including employer match on contributions made while employed at Ramp
• Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year)
• Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay
• Pet insurance
• In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more

About the company

Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. They automate how over $275B in annualized spend flows in and out of 85,000+ companies.