Senior Designer-Engineer | Design System
Ramp
About Ramp
Ramp is a financial operations platform designed to save businesses time and money. Combining corporate cards with expense management, bill payments, vendor management, accounting automation, and more, Ramp's all-in-one solution frees finance teams to do the best work of their lives. More than 25,000 companies, from family-owned farms to e-commerce giants to space startups, have saved $1B and 10M hours with Ramp. Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment platform in America, and enables over 35 billion dollars in purchases each year.
Ramp's investors include Sequoia, Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, Greylock, Stripe, Goldman Sachs, Coatue, and Redpoint, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart.
Ramp has been named to Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies list and LinkedIn's Top U.S. Startups for over 3 years, as well as the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, and TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential Companies.
About the Role
We are seeking a Systems Designer-Engineer motivated by the opportunity to learn from an exceptional team and define how designers and engineers work together to deliver exceptional experiences incredibly quickly—a ground-floor opportunity in a design-driven company. This role will be responsible for empowering our design and engineering teams to deliver better, more consistent experiences across all our products and platforms. You’ll evolve and maintain our design system in design and front-end libraries, infrastructure, and documentation and help build internal tooling to promote velocity.
This is a role for an individual contributor with a genuine desire to learn from the best and have a significant impact across the entire product, brand, and marketing. You will evolve our design and front-end processes that champion our users’ voices and ship incredible experiences daily.
What You’ll Do
Help maintain and evolve the design and development of Ramp’s cross-platform design system
Contribute to the design and user experience for our core product by evolving the design process through documentation and guidelines
Work directly with product/engineering/design teams to develop and implement tooling with a focus on maintaining quality and speed
Champion the user experience and accessibility of our products, and help keep our quality bar as high as possible
Advocate for our users by continuously iterating on and evolving our core products and experiences. Identify areas of improvement and deliver value to customers every day.
Collaborate with and support designers to evolve our long-term product vision, design systems, and internal design collaboration process
Collaborate with and support engineerings with elegant and consistent component APIs and a focus on the developer experience
Participate in day-to-day team rituals like design crit, story creation, weekly stand-ups, etc.
Help us hire more amazing people to grow the team and bring diverse perspectives to our process
What You Need
Minimum 5 years of tech/startup or digital product agency experience or equivalent
Strong understanding of Product Design software (pref. Figma)
Extraordinary visual design skills and a strong understanding of UX and UI principles and background in visual/interaction design
Excellent front-end development skills in semantic HTML, CSS (up to date on latest features), and Javascript (and frameworks, pref. React)
Experience maintaining a reusable component library and sweating the design details in code
Strong organizational skills and a love for documentation
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, bridging the gap between design and engineering
Nice to Haves
Ability to articulate complex concepts to technical and non-technical peers
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Solid understanding of accessibility development practices
Benefits (for U.S.-based full-time employees)
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100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
Partially covered for your dependents
One Medical annual membership
401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp)
Flexible PTO
Fertility HRA (up to $5,000 per year)
WFH stipend to support your home office needs
Wellness stipend
Parental Leave
Relocation support for NY
Pet insurance
Other notices
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.