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Design System Designer

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-01 Utrecht Fulltime Hybrid Design Architecture
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market 3,500 EUR–5,500 EUR/mo

About the Company

Rentman is a B2B SaaS scale-up building a smart, powerful operations management platform to support event and media production teams. Our users plan everything from small shoots to massive festivals in 70+ countries, and they all rely on Rentman to keep their gear, people, and timing perfectly in sync. We're based in Utrecht (NL) with a second office in Toronto (CA), and our 100+ team members work in a culture that's open, flat, and inclusive, where curiosity drives us, ownership matters, and everyone has the freedom to challenge ideas and make an impact. Check out our public roadmap https://rentman.io/public-roadmap to see what's coming next https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/d722c125-c3d1-4d3f-8dbf-08d8ac4ab137/1abd1b97-44fa-4e7c-92e0-d04d95cf059f/Screenshot2026-07-22at17.03.37.png MISSION OF THIS ROLE Bring design ownership to a design system currently being built code-first: defining Rentman's visual language and building a governed, Figma-and-code-aligned component system, so product teams inherit consistent, accessible, high-craft UI instead of designing and coding each surface from scratch. You'll also be the team's visual-craft anchor: our strongest visual and UI designer, raising the craft bar on everything we ship, not just the system itself.

Responsibilities

  • ● Define Rentman's visual language (hierarchy, density, tone, when-to guidance) and document it so teams can apply it without you in the room.
  • ● Build and maintain the Figma component library to our Definition of Done: in Figma and in Storybook/Angular at parity, token-driven, documented, and passing WCAG AA.
  • ● Document the system in two layers: human guidelines and rationale, plus machine-readable usage rules that AI design and development tools can apply reliably.
  • ● Establish the patterns and templates layer for our priority flows, so teams compose instead of reinventing.
  • ● Run governance: the contribution process, changelog, deprecations, and design reviews with a clear turnaround.
  • ● Partner daily with our Design System Developer as a small, autonomous two-person team, and act as the design team's visual-craft anchor via crit and review, while the product teams building Rentman's software remain your most important stakeholders.
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  • ● WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
  • ● Top-of-team UI and visual craft, backed by a strong portfolio - you'll be the most visually skilled designer on the team from day one.
  • ● Expert in Figma (variants, tokens/variables, auto-layout), with real hands-on experience building a design system.
  • ● WCAG AA fluency, and a genuine understanding of what makes software interfaces good, and how to build them.
  • ● An understanding of what makes a design system consumable by AI tooling: why publishing token data is the easy part, and encoding usage rules is the hard part.
  • ● NICE TO HAVES
  • ● Prior experience as the sole or founding design owner of a design system.
  • ● Hands-on experience shipping an agent-facing design-system surface (e.g. an MCP server, component manifest, or llms.txt-style export), or exposure to Angular front-end conventions.
  • ● WHAT YOU'LL GET
  • ● Competitive salary based on experience, plus 8% holiday allowance
  • ● A results-based bonus based on company performance (up to a full 13th month's salary)
  • ● vacation days to recharge
  • ● Earn an extra day of PTO for each year at Rentman, from your second anniversary up to five years.