Render
Staff/Principal Design Systems Lead
Remote: United States · Principal
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About the role
- This isn't about maintaining a component library.
- You're a designer first, with the technical depth to get into the code.
- Inside Render, teams reach for an agent before they check the docs - so a system that isn't legible to AI quietly gets bypassed, and quality drifts toward generic output.
Responsibilities
- Build and lead the team that owns the system. As the function grows, hire and develop it - set priorities and ownership, give direct feedback, hold a high bar, and help people do the best work of their careers.
- Elevate Render's visual and interaction design. Raise the bar for typography, hierarchy, density, motion, responsive behavior, accessibility - and the states beyond the happy path, which is where developer tools earn their reputation.
- Lead the work to make Render's design system AI-ready: machine-readable documentation, system rules and tokens exposed where agents can reach them (e.g. via MCP), and an architecture that shrinks the context an agent needs while keeping the brand and accessibility layers ours.
- The goal: agents building on Render produce on-brand, compliant work by default.
- Define and measure quality, including AI output. Build repeatable evaluations grounded in real tasks - testing generated output against the system's standard, not just whether people use the tools.
- Exceptional visual and interaction design skills. Your work shows a clear point of view, detail that borders on obsessive, and an ability to make complex experiences feel simple - the kind of craft other practitioners admire.
- We will also work with you to create a supportive plan of return.
Requirements
- Your work shows a clear point of view, detail that borders on obsessive, and an ability to make complex experiences feel simple - the kind of craft other practitioners admire.
- You can show how your work improved both their speed and the quality of what shipped - not just that it existed.
Nice to have
- Strong product judgment and developer empathy.
Skills
- Experience evolving a system across platforms, or connecting product and brand experiences.
- Founder or early-stage startup experience.
Benefits
- 4 weeks of paid vacation.
- 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child.
- Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
- 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent.
- Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
- Continuous learning benefits & related support.
- Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
Company info
- Make the system legible to AI, not just humans.
- Guide technical architecture with engineering. Shape everything from components and tokens to how agents discover guidance and check their work. Make sound tradeoffs between flexibility, coherence, performance, and ease of use - layered and headless where that scales better than rigid bundles.
- Earn adoption. Work alongside product teams, teach through examples, and turn recurring questions and exceptions into improvements. A system lives or dies on whether people, and their agents, reach for it.
- Keep moving as the ground shifts. Experiment as models and tools evolve, share what you learn, and change direction when the evidence calls for it.
Equal opportunity
- Please contact us to request accommodation.
Visa & Work Authorization
- This position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship.
This listing is sourced directly from Render's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.