Design Systems Lead: Scale UI Tokens & Components (Remote)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Colombia; Remote; COP 286,670,000 - 414,079,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote LATAM

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a Design Systems Lead to own how client design systems are built. You will extract patterns from a brand and reference sites into a working system of tokens, variables, modes, and core components for a repeatable build pipeline.

You will work across several client brands at once, maintaining rigorous structure while delivering consistent, scalable design systems in a remote LATAM setting with overlap to US business hours.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing for the web with a real design system portfolio.
• Fluency in Figma variables, component properties, auto layout, and variants; architecture over tidy files.
• A portfolio showing distinct client work with consistent underlying rigor.
• Strong English and overlap with US business hours.

Responsibilities

• Build token architecture in Figma using variables, modes, and semantic naming our pipeline can read predictably.
• Ship core component libraries that hold up across an entire site, not just a homepage.
• Document the system so a developer or an automated pipeline can execute it without questions.
• Work across several client brands at once, each looking distinctly different, with the same structural rigor.

Skills

Design systems

Figma variables

Component architecture

English communication

Tools

Figma

Job description

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a Design Systems Lead to own how client design systems are built. You will extract patterns from a brand and reference sites into a working system of tokens, variables, modes, and core components for a repeatable build pipeline.

You will work across several client brands at once, maintaining rigorous structure while delivering consistent, scalable design systems in a remote LATAM setting with overlap to US business hours.