Remote Senior UI Systems Designer: Design Systems Architect

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Metropolitana; Remote; COP 222,965,000 - 382,226,000; Full time

Job summary

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

This is a senior, systems-first role supporting multiple client brands with the same rigorous approach. You will ship reusable libraries and document the system for developers and automation.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing for the web with design system work in portfolio.
• Fluency in Figma variables, component properties, auto layout, and variants.
• A portfolio showing work across different client brands with consistent 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 automated pipeline can execute it without questions.
• Work across several client brands at once, each looking distinctly different, with the same structural rigor.

Skills

Web design

English proficiency

Tools

Figma

Job description

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

This is a senior, systems-first role supporting multiple client brands with the same rigorous approach. You will ship reusable libraries and document the system for developers and automation.