Senior UX Designer, Design System

About the role

Ryan, a global tax services and technology company, is looking for a Senior UX Designer, Design Systems to own and evolve the design system behind its suite of digital tax products. This is a craft-first individual contributor role focused on token naming, component behavior, documentation clarity and systematic thinking so the system stays usable at scale. Candidates must include a digital portfolio or link in their application.

Key responsibilities

• Set and maintain the standard for how components are built, named, documented and used across the team, and educate designers on system usage
• Identify gaps, inconsistencies and debt in the system and advocate for high-impact improvements
• Work with Engineering to keep components accurate in code, and with Product and Visual Design to align patterns with real product needs
• Take part in design system governance with the design and craft perspective
• Build and maintain a well-documented library of reusable Figma components, including token and variable architecture
• Write practical documentation covering usage guidelines, do's and don'ts and implementation notes
• Bake accessibility into the system from the start (WCAG, ARIA, contrast ratios)

Required profile

• 5-8 years of product/UX design experience, with meaningful ownership of an enterprise-level design system used by multiple products
• Proven track record of building, maintaining and scaling component libraries adopted by product teams
• Financial, enterprise or B2B background is a plus
• Demonstrated ability with AI tools that speed up design and research (e.g. Claude, Figma Make, Lovable)
• Detail-oriented, systems thinker, comfortable at the intersection of design and engineering

Required skills

• Deep Figma expertise: variables, tokens, component properties, auto-layout and library management
• Understanding of how design systems translate into code; HTML, CSS and component-based frameworks such as React are a meaningful plus

What we offer

• Hybrid work, with three days in the office during the first 60 days, then adapting to a minimum of one day per week
• Unlimited PTO, 401(k) with employer match, tuition reimbursement after one year, fertility assistance and a four-week paid sabbatical after five years
• Monthly gym membership or equipment reimbursement, benefits eligibility effective day one, and 14 weeks of 100% paid leave for new parents