Staff / Principal Product Designer, Design Systems

About Us Rho is the modern banking platform built for startups. Open accounts in minutes, issue cards, manage expenses, pay bills, and close the books – all in one connected platform backed by real human support. Rho — New York (in person) Rho is building the best business banking platform on earth. Not "one of." The best. We are not being cute about that. We're looking for a Staff or Principal Product Designer to own our design system, the governed, in code foundation that everything we ship stands on. This is not a role where you maintain a Figma library and file tickets. This is the role where you define the frontend layer of a financial operating system that companies trust with their money. It's a long post on purpose. We'd rather you know exactly what this is before you apply. What you'd actually own Our design system is becoming the governed frontend layer of the product, components in code, rules enforced through lint and CI, documentation an AI agent can query and build against on spec. You would own that. The architecture, the tokens, the primitives, the motion language, the governance, the contribution model, and the standards that let 80 plus engineers and PMs ship on bar without a designer babysitting every pixel. You'll partner with our frontend guild, our engineers, and the design team as genuine equals, not as a service desk. You'll decide what a component is, how it behaves, how it moves, what it enables, and where it must not bend. You'll set the craft bar for the entire org and then build the system that makes hitting that bar the path of least resistance. Who this is for You've been doing this for a while. We mean it, at least 7 years of product design experience, with real design systems ownership at scale. Not "contributed to a design system." Owned one. Built one. Governed one. Watched it get abused and fixed the governance so it couldn't happen again. You are the kind of person who: - Designs in code, or is hungry to. You believe Figma is not