Senior UX Design Engineer, Design Systems

Greenhouse

1d • $105,800 - $158,800 • Remote

About The Position

Greenhouse is looking for a Senior UX Design Engineer, Design Systems to join our central Design System team – Greenhouse's centralized experience and delivery enablement team for the product organization. Reporting to the Staff Designer & Manager, Design Systems, you'll be the missing implementation layer between design intent and production code. This is a first-of-its-kind role at Greenhouse, built to close a growing structural gap and help define the AI-powered future of how we design, build, and ship product. You'll serve all of our triad feature teams (Product, Design, Engineering) as shared infrastructure. Converting fragmented, one-off UI work into reusable, production-grade system capabilities that compound in value with every team that ships.

Requirements

• 5+ years of front-end engineering, UX engineering, or related field experience in a modern component framework, with strong component architecture skills. React + TypeScript strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of AI development tools (Claude, MCP, Code Sandbox, or similar) for code-ready output generation
• Solid understanding of accessibility best practices (WCAG) and state modeling, demonstrated in shipped work
• Fluency working with design tokens, layout systems, and interaction states, with a genuine interest in visual and interaction design
• A documentation-first approach: teams should be able to self-serve from what you write
• Demonstrated experience shipping design systems work at another organization. Field-tested knowledge, not just theoretical familiarity.

Nice To Haves

• Storybook (or similar) component documentation and showcase workflow experience, a plus
• Visual regression testing and CI quality gate experience, a plus
• Design token pipeline experience and tooling, a plus

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain production-grade components and patterns across core workflows, with accessibility and interaction fidelity built in from the start
• Own a single documentation source of truth for Design and Engineering, with clear APIs, variants, and working examples teams can use without asking
• Set contribution standards and guardrails that keep the design system the obvious default across Greenhouse's product teams
• Partner with engineering to deliver implementation-ready patterns, reducing handoff loops and bespoke UI across feature teams
• Champion design systems adoption across the organization and elevate the product through motion, interaction design, and refined brand moments

Benefits

• performance review program that’s committed to providing actionable feedback
• bonus structure that rewards great performance
• award-winning culture that’s been recognized as Fortune’s Best Places to Work and Inc.’s Best Workplaces multiple years in a row

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed