Design Systems Designer

Requirements The ideal person for this role is both a systems thinker and a hands-on builder: someone who gets energized by bringing order to complexity, cares deeply about consistency and craft, and knows how to bring engineers along for the ride , Based in the SF Bay Area with flexibility to work in our Redwood City office ~4 days per week , 3-5+ years of product design experience, with meaningful time spent working on or contributing to a design system , Figma proficiency, including auto layout, component variants, design tokens, etc , Solid understanding of how design systems bridge to frontend implementation via CSS and component-based frameworks like React , Well-versed in web and mobile best practices and how they differ across platforms , Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment where process & priorities shift frequently , (Desirable) Technical skills, including knowledge of how to write frontend code and comfort building simple components that implement your designs , (Desirable) Early-stage startup experience ideally building a design system from scratch , (Desirable) B2B SaaS experience with dense, data-heavy UI patterns What the job involves As our first dedicated Design Systems Designer, you will own the foundation that every product experience is built on , Sitting at the intersection of design craft and technical implementation, you’ll audit and evolve what exists today into a cohesive, scalable system that designers and engineers actually love using , Own & evolve Rundoo’s design system: audit what exists today to define patterns, components, and guidelines that clean up what we have and will scale with us , Re-build & maintain our Figma web & mobile component libraries: simplify and augment our component libraries , Evangelize the system and advocate for consistency: partner with engineers to translate components into production-ready, easy-to-use code and champion adoption , Align the design system roadmap with product priorities: collaborate with product, design, & engineering to ensure design system work enables our product roadmap , Design features that fall outside the system: when engineers struggle to use the system, jump in as a product designer to inform system extension or to guide them in how to best use what already exists #J-18808-Ljbffr