Senior UX Design Engineer, Greenhouse Software
Design Systems
$128.3-166.9k
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Applicant tracking software and hiring platform
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Applicant tracking software and hiring platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$128.3-166.9k
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help every company become great at hiring.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Quality candidates are in demand and have options. It's not easy for companies to make the perfect hire. They face recruitment challenges. Firstly, they have to find the right people to interview. And secondly, they have to demonstrate that they have the right job for them.
Greenhouse is a hiring software company that helps companies optimize their recruitment and become great at it. With over 7,500 customers, the company supports some of the world's most successful companies such as Buzzfeed, Booking.com, HubSpot, and J.D. Power.
In January 2021, TPG Growth acquired a majority stake in Greenhouse with an investment of approximately $500M to support their commitment to improve diversity and reduce inequality in the hiring process.
Since the acquisition, Greenhouse has experienced significant growth, increasing revenues from $86.4M in 2021 to $266.3M in 2024. Its fair to say, the company is seeing great success and it doesn't seem to be slowing down anytime soon.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jul 2018
$50m
SERIES D
Aug 2015
$35m
SERIES C
Total funding: $111.5m
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
Daniel Chait
(CEO)With a background in Software Engineering, they co-founded Business Velocity and Lab49, where they worked for almost 10 years. In January 2012, they co-founded Greenhouse Software.
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