Remote Senior Web Design Systems Architect

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Medellín; Remote; COP 287,292,000 - 383,056,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a Web Design Systems Designer to own how client design systems are built. You’ll extract patterns from brands and reference sites into a working system of tokens, variables, modes and core components that a build pipeline can execute without questions.

This is a senior, systems-first role focused on rapid, correct system delivery across multiple client brands, with strong English and US business-hour overlap. Remote work is available for Latin America.

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 where the work looks different from client to client but the rigor underneath is the same.
• 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

Client branding

Tools

Figma

Job description

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a Web Design Systems Designer to own how client design systems are built. You’ll extract patterns from brands and reference sites into a working system of tokens, variables, modes and core components that a build pipeline can execute without questions.

This is a senior, systems-first role focused on rapid, correct system delivery across multiple client brands, with strong English and US business-hour overlap. Remote work is available for Latin America.