Senior Design Systems Architect - Remote

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Colombia; Remote; COP 258,950,000 - 356,056,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a senior Design Systems Designer who owns how client design systems are built. You translate brands and reference sites into a working system of tokens, variables, modes, and core components that a build pipeline can execute with precision.

You will ship cross-brand component libraries, document the system for developers and automated pipelines, and work across several client brands with the same rigorous structure.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing for the web with design system work in your portfolio.
• Fluency in Figma variables, component properties, auto layout, and variants.
• A portfolio where client work shows distinct brands but 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 libraries

English fluency

Brand systems

Tools

Figma

Job description

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a senior Design Systems Designer who owns how client design systems are built. You translate brands and reference sites into a working system of tokens, variables, modes, and core components that a build pipeline can execute with precision.

You will ship cross-brand component libraries, document the system for developers and automated pipelines, and work across several client brands with the same rigorous structure.