Design Systems Designer

Rundoo • Redwood City, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Technical skills, including knowledge of how to write frontend code and comfort building simple components that implement your designs.
• Early-stage startup experience ideally building a design system from scratch.
• B2B SaaS experience with dense, data-heavy UI patterns.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage (100% of premiums for you, 50% for dependents)
• 401k with Betterment
• Unlimited PTO with 10 company paid holidays
• Daily team lunches for those in office
• Learning materials and audiobook subscriptions

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees