Senior Design System Designer, GlossGenius
$180-215k
+ Target Equity
More information about location
2+ days a week in office (Union Square, NY)
Business management platform for beauty salons
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Business management platform for beauty salons
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-215k
+ Target Equity
More information about location
2+ days a week in office (Union Square, NY)
201-500 employees
Company mission
Gloss Genius' mission is to empower beauty salon owners to reach new heights by growing their business, boosting customer engagement, and maximising their income.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years experience in product design, front-end engineering, or design systems roles
- Deep understanding of design tokens, component libraries, and documentation systems (e.g., Storybook, Zeroheight)
- Advanced knowledge of accessibility best practices (WCAG, ARIA) and experience implementing them at scale
- Comfortable working across React or similar front-end frameworks
- Strategic thinker with strong systems design sensibility and operational know-how
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to bring clarity across disciplines
- Experience collaborating with design ops, brand, and UX teams to drive cohesion
- Bonus: experience with contribution models, governance frameworks, or internal tooling
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Design System Designer to lead the next evolution of our design system
- As our team scales, this role will play a critical part in defining foundational design principles, ensuring accessibility, and aligning cross-functional teams around consistent, high-quality design patterns
- You’ll partner closely with engineering and design leadership to ensure our system not only scales—but empowers teams to deliver beautiful, accessible, and cohesive user experiences across all surfaces
- This is a highly cross-functional and strategic role, ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of design and engineering, and is passionate about driving adoption, building alignment, and improving product quality and velocity
- You will report directly to our Head of Design and you must be commutable to our NYC headquarters and will operate in a hybrid environment with 2 days per week in the office (Tuesdays & Thursdays)
- Define and evolve the long-term vision and roadmap for our design system in alignment with product, design, and engineering priorities
- Lead conversations around governance, contribution models, and scaling strategy to ensure the system grows in a sustainable and impactful way
- Partner with engineers to ensure consistent and correct implementation of components and patterns across products
- Act as a bridge between design and engineering—translating interface guidelines into robust, reusable components
- Establish and uphold accessibility standards within the system and across teams
- Audit, test, and collaborate with QA/engineering to ensure our platform meets or exceeds WCAG guidelines
- Own and maintain system documentation, usage guidelines, and changelogs to support adoption
- Proactively educate teams on system updates and best practices through workshops, demos, and internal tooling
- Collaborate with and support our team of senior and staff designers and engineers contributing to the system
- Act as a mentor and resource for accessibility and system architecture
Our take
Business management platforms exist for a wide range of industries, including retail, hospitality, and healthcare. However, despite a modern facade the beauty industry lacks specialised software and still runs on generic CRMs and basic spreadsheets. Recognising a gap in the market, GlossGenius has stepped in to provided a specialised business management platform for beauty salons, spas and studios.
With no competition in this niche, GlossGenius has swiftly captured a large market share, with triple-digit year on year revenue growth. It serves over 40,000 businesses (70% of which are women-owned) and has more than $2 billion in annual transactions on the platform.
GlossGenius has raised a large amount of capital in several funding rounds closed in quick succession. It is aiming to accelerate platform development off the back of its releasing of consumer experience, payment and automation products. It is well on the way to fulfilling its long-term aim of developing into the Toast of the beauty industry.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
64% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jul 2023
$28m
SERIES C
Sep 2022
$25m
SERIES B
Total funding: $104.9m
Company benefits
- Flexible PTO
- Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums partially covered by GG
- Fertility and adoption benefits via Carrot and Kindbody
- Generous, fully-paid parental leave policy
- 401k benefit - employees are eligible to contribute starting day 1 of employment
- Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Dependent Care FSA
- Home office stipend
- Team Bonding opportunities - annual company retreat for entire team, plus virtual events throughout the year
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
Leadership
Experience as Research Intern for DenizBank. Investments Analyst for Goldman Sachs from 2011 to 2014.
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