Staff/Principal Design Systems Lead

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $218k - $307k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

✍️ Designer

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Render

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

☁️ SaaS

Consulting • Logistics • SaaS

Render is a modern cloud platform for developers and teams that simplifies the process of building, deploying, and scaling applications. It offers a range of services including web services, static sites, cron jobs, background workers, PostgreSQL databases, and Redis management. Render's platform is designed for ease of use with features such as automatic deployments, load-based autoscaling, and infrastructure as code. It also provides robust security measures like DDoS protection and data privacy compliance. Render caters to a wide range of development stacks with support for various programming languages and Docker images, providing developers with a seamless environment to manage and scale their infrastructure. With a focus on speed, reliability, and collaboration, Render helps developers efficiently manage their applications and infrastructure from development to production.

📋 Description

• Set the design system’s vision and direction based on builder and customer needs • Build the foundations hands-on, including architecture, components, guidance, and quality standards • Build and lead the team that owns the design system • Hire and develop team members, set priorities and ownership, give direct feedback, and maintain a high bar • Elevate Render’s visual and interaction design across typography, hierarchy, density, motion, responsive behavior, accessibility, and edge states • Make the design system legible to AI through machine-readable documentation, agent-accessible rules and tokens, and AI-ready architecture • Guide technical architecture with engineering across components, tokens, agent guidance discovery, and quality checks • Balance flexibility, coherence, performance, and ease of use using layered and headless patterns where appropriate • Define and measure quality through repeatable evaluations of real tasks and AI-generated output • Drive adoption by partnering with product teams and teaching through examples • Experiment as models and tools evolve and adapt based on evidence • Report to the Head of Design

🎯 Requirements

• Track record of setting direction and delivering outcomes in design systems or design engineering • Appetite to build a function from the ground up before leading a team • Exceptional visual and interaction design skills • Deep systems thinking and experience building systems other teams adopt • Strong technical fluency • Ability to prototype and build in code • Understanding of front-end architecture, including component API design, tokens, theming, and layered/headless patterns • Ability to work through implementation tradeoffs with engineers • Hands-on use of AI in design work • Point of view on AI-ready design systems • Understanding of where AI helps and fails and how to improve its output • Strong product judgment and developer empathy • Fluency with developers and technical products is a strong plus • Generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship; applicants requiring sponsorship must receive business authorization

🏖️ Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation • 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents • Long-term disability insurance • Life insurance • 401K plans • 100% employer-paid medical coverage for you and a dependent • 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent • FSAs and HSAs • Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc. • Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy • Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area • Home office stipends for remote Renders • Continuous learning benefits and related support • Equity