Staff / Principal Product Designer, Design Systems

Rho
New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Skills: ["Systems thinking","High standards","Collaboration","Work-out-loud","Low ego"]

Own and govern Rho’s design system as a code-based, governed frontend layer for the product. Define the tokens, primitives, motion language, architecture, contribution model, and standards that let engineers and PMs ship without designer babysitting. Partner with the frontend guild and design team as equals, setting the craft bar while designing in the real medium—systems, states, edge cases, and dense financial workflows.

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Staff / Principal Product Designer, Design Systems

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Job Summary

Own and govern Rho’s design system as a code-based, governed frontend layer for the product. Define the tokens, primitives, motion language, architecture, contribution model, and standards that let engineers and PMs ship without designer babysitting. Partner with the frontend guild and design team as equals, setting the craft bar while designing in the real medium—systems, states, edge cases, and dense financial workflows.
Location: New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the governed, in-code design system foundation that all shipped UI builds upon, including architecture, tokens, primitives, and documentation.
  • •Define and enforce governance (rules, contribution model, standards) through lint and CI and set expectations so engineers/PMs can ship without constant designer review.
  • •Partner as genuine equals with frontend engineers and the design team to decide component behavior, motion, and constraints.
  • •Set the craft bar for the org across pixel-level detail, ensuring interfaces feel calm and states/transitions land with considered motion.
  • •Design end-to-end across the surface, including research and QA and the push to get work shipped correctly.

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years of product design experience with design systems ownership at scale—owned, built, governed, and fixed governance when it was abused.
  • •Ability to design in code (or be eager to), treating Figma as not the build environment and focusing on eliminating hidden QA issues.
  • •Strong taste and craft across branding, typography, motion, and microinteractions, with defensible decisions and high standards for detail.
  • •Systems thinking: designing in primitives, states, edge cases, and “two-way doors,” anticipating failures under high usage.
  • •Comfort with dense financial workflows (multi-role, permission-scoped) and the ambition to set a high craft bar while moving fast.
Experience:FintechDesign systemsProduct design
Skills:Systems thinkingHigh standardsCollaborationWork-out-loudLow ego
Tech Stack:FigmaCILintAI agentTokensPrimitivesMotion languageDesign systemsGovernance

Company Brief

Rho
Provides an integrated corporate banking platform offering business accounts, corporate cards, bill pay, and treasury management to help companies manage cash, spend, and payments with modern banking and spend controls.
Industry: Corporate Banking
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2019
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