Senior UX Engineer, Design Systems

Greenhouse is looking for a Senior UX 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.

Who will love this job

• A design evangelist – you believe using the design system should be the easy path and the right path, and you're energized to make that true across the entire organization
• A system-minded builder – you see every one-off UI request as an opportunity to build something reusable that makes the next request faster
• A forward thinker – you track where AI-powered design tooling is heading, not just what it can do today, and you position your work on that slope
• An experience-first engineer – you start from the ideal workflow and work backwards to the technology, not the other way around
• A cross-functional partner – you thrive in the space between design and engineering, co-owning decisions rather than just receiving handoffs
• A code-first problem-solver – you believe the fastest path from concept to shipping is live, working code, not another round of mockups

What you'll do

• 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

You should have

• 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.
• 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
• Your own rare talents — if you don't meet 100% of the qualifications, tell us why you'd be an excellent fit for this role in your cover letter.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here.

The national pay range for this role is $128,300 - $166,900. Individual compensation will be commensurate with the candidate's experience and qualifications. Certain roles may be eligible for additional compensation, including stock option awards, bonuses, and merit increases. Additionally, certain roles have the opportunity to receive sales commissions that are based on the terms of the sales commission plan applicable to the role.

Greenhouse provides a variety of benefits to employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, basic life insurance, mental health resources, financial wellness benefits, and a fully paid parental leave program. For US-based employees, we offer short-term and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan and company match. U.S. based employees also receive, per calendar year, up to 14 scheduled paid holidays and up to 80 hours of paid sick leave. Non-exempt employees accrue up to 20-25 days of paid vacation time annually, depending on tenure, and exempt employees have flexible paid time off (PTO).

The anticipated closing date for this role is May 15, 2026.

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