Staff / Principal Product Designer, Design Systems

The role

You will own the design system, which is the governed frontend layer of the product. You will define the architecture, tokens, primitives, motion language, governance, and contribution models.

What you will do

• Own the design system as the governed frontend layer
• Define architecture, tokens, primitives, and motion language
• Manage governance, contribution models, and standards
• Partner with the frontend guild, engineers, and design team
• Decide component behavior, movement, and enablement
• Set the craft bar for the entire organization
• Build the system to enable engineers and PMs to ship on bar

Required qualifications

• At least 7 years of product design experience
• Real design systems ownership at scale
• Ability to design in code or hunger to do so
• High standards for branding, typography, motion, and microinteractions
• Ability to build systems including primitives, states, and edge cases
• Ability to move fast and work out loud
• Ability to work with ambiguity
• Ability to bring a vision

About the company

Rho is a modern banking platform built for the AI era. Startups and growth-stage companies use it to open accounts, issue cards, manage expenses, pay bills, and close books.