Senior UX Design Engineer, Design Systems

Anywhere in the United States Apply Our mission at Greenhouse is to make hiring work for everyone – so we go to great lengths to hire great people because we believe that they’re the foundation of our success. At Greenhouse, you’ll join a team that collaborates purposefully, fosters inclusivity, and communicates with transparency and accountability so we can help companies measurably improve the way they hire. Join us to do the best work of your career, solving meaningful problems with remarkable teams. Greenhouse is looking for a Senior UX Design 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,...