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About the Role

Rho is seeking a Staff or Principal Product Designer to own the design system, which serves as the governed, in-code foundation for the product. This role involves defining the frontend layer of a financial operating system, setting the craft bar for the entire organization, and building a system that enables engineers and PMs to ship high-quality products efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Own the design system, including its architecture, tokens, primitives, motion language, governance, and contribution model.
• Define the frontend layer of the product, including components in code, rules enforced through lint and CI, and documentation.
• Partner with the frontend guild, engineers, and the design team as an equal.
• Determine component behavior, functionality, and constraints.
• Set the craft bar for the entire organization.
• Build the system that facilitates high-quality product delivery.
• Own design surfaces end-to-end, including research, QA, and shipping.
• Utilize AI natively in the workflow.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of product design experience.
• Proven ownership of a design system at scale, including building and governing it.
• Experience designing in code or a strong desire to do so.
• Belief that Figma is not the build environment and that designing in the real medium reduces QA costs.
• Genuine taste and a high standard for craft, including branding, typography, motion, and microinteractions.
• Ability to point to a visual language and state "I built that."
• System-building mindset, thinking in primitives, states, edge cases, and two-way doors.
• Ability to design for scalability and potential issues at high user volumes.
• Fast-paced work ethic, working out loud and sharing the development process.
• Low ego and high standards, with a willingness to receive and incorporate critique.
• Ability to defend design decisions with reasoning.
• Interest in or understanding of financial workflows, which are dense, multi-role, permission-scoped, and unforgiving.
• Portfolio showcasing actual UI craft at the pixel level.
• Experience with motion and microinteractions as integral parts of craft.
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to move forward without fully specced tickets.
• Willingness to bring a vision, not just execute a handed-down one.
• Understanding that "move fast" means maintaining a high quality bar through a robust system.
• Ability to demonstrate end-to-end product craft beyond conversational UI case studies.
• Readiness to walk through a real, working file during interviews.
• Readiness to present a design system that was actually built and governed.
• Ability to present one deeply complex, systems-level project.
• Ability to present one pixel-level design piece.
• Clarity on personal decision-making in presented projects.

Skills

• Design Systems
• Product Design
• Frontend Development
• Architecture
• Design Tokens
• Component Design
• Motion Design
• Microinteractions
• Typography
• Branding
• Governance
• Contribution Models
• Linting
• CI/CD
• AI Integration
• Research
• Quality Assurance (QA)
• Financial Workflows

Location

• New York (in person)

Work Type

• In person
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Staff
• Principal
• 7+ years

About the Company

• Rho is the modern banking platform built for startups.
• Rho offers a connected platform for opening accounts, issuing cards, managing expenses, paying bills, and closing books, backed by human support.
• Rho is building the best business banking platform on earth.
• Rho utilizes AI natively and expects employees to do the same.