Senior UX Designer, Design System

Salary: $103,000 - 163,020 per year Requirements:

• 5–8 years of product or UX design experience, including substantial ownership of or contribution to an enterprise design system used across multiple products.
• Demonstrated success building, maintaining, and scaling component libraries that product teams adopt and trust.
• A digital portfolio or work samples showing design-system thinking and execution; applicants must include a portfolio link in their application.
• Advanced Figma skills, including variables, tokens, component properties, auto-layout, and library management.
• Understanding of how design systems translate into code; working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and component-based frameworks such as React is a plus.
• Familiarity with accessibility practices and standards, including WCAG, ARIA, and contrast ratios.
• Experience with AI tools and processes that accelerate design and research, such as Claude, Figma Make, or Lovable.
• Financial, enterprise, or B2B experience is an advantage.
• Strong attention to detail across naming conventions, component states, edge cases, and consistency.
• Systems-oriented judgment and the ability to consider how component decisions affect an entire product suite.
• Ability to work comfortably across design and engineering and build trust with both teams.

• Own and maintain standards for how design-system components are built, named, documented, and used across our team.
• Educate and support designers in using the system consistently, helping build understanding and trust in it.
• Find gaps, inconsistencies, and system debt, then prioritize and advocate for high-impact improvements across our products.
• Partner with Engineering to ensure components are accurately implemented in code and maintain feedback between design and development.
• Work with product designers to understand how the system functions in practice and use their feedback to evolve components and patterns.
• Collaborate with Product and Visual Design to ensure new patterns meet product needs and align with our visual standards.
• Contribute design and craft expertise to design-system governance discussions.
• Create and maintain a structured, documented Figma library of reusable components for designers and developers.
• Own the Figma token and variable architecture, keeping it scalable and aligned with engineering implementation.
• Write practical component and pattern documentation, including usage guidance, dos and donts, and implementation notes.
• Integrate accessibility into the system so that compliance is built in by default.
• Work primarily at a computer and collaborate regularly with internal teams, clients, and vendors; occasionally travel up to 10% as needed.
• The role has no direct supervisory duties, though it may involve delegating tasks to junior team members.

• AI
• CSS
• Figma
• Support
• Lovable
• React
• UX UI Design

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We are Ryan, LLC, a global provider of tax services and technology solutions that helps clients unlock capital for growth, investment, and innovation. We have been recognized by Fortune and Glassdoor as a Best Place to Work. This is a craft-focused individual-contributor role on our UX team, centered on evolving the design system that supports our digital tax products. We offer hybrid work options, flexible work arrangements, unlimited PTO and other generous personal time off, 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave (including adoption), a monthly gym or equipment reimbursement, benefits from day one, a 401(k) with employer match, tuition reimbursement after one year, fertility assistance, and eligibility for a four-week company-paid sabbatical after five years. We provide professional development and growth opportunities in a collaborative, forward-thinking team. Preferred locations are Dallas, Austin, or Burlington, Massachusetts. New hires work from a Ryan office three days per week during their first 60 days; afterward, the schedule adjusts to a minimum of one office day per week based on role, team, and individual needs. Salary ranges vary by location: California roles are $124,000–$163,020 or $114,000–$149,490; Colorado roles are $109,000–$142,670; Illinois roles are $114,000–$149,490 or, for other Illinois roles, $109,000–$142,670; Maryland roles are $109,000–$142,670; Massachusetts roles are $114,000–$149,490 or, for other Massachusetts roles, $109,000–$142,670; New Jersey and New York roles are $124,000–$163,020, with other New York roles at $103,000–$135,850; and Washington roles are $114,000–$149,490. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

last updated 40 week of 2026