Senior Design Systems Architect (Remote)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Metropolitana; Remote; COP 291,602,000 - 388,802,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency builds websites for clients across the US. As Senior Design Systems Designer, you will create and maintain the Figma design system—tokens, variables, modes, and component libraries—that our developers build from without questions.

This is a full-time remote role serving Latin America, overlapping US business hours, with the expectation you have a personal design system in Figma and strong English communication.

Qualifications

• 4+ years as a product, UI or design systems designer, ideally on an in-house team.
• A design system you personally built in Figma with variables, modes and tokens, and can walk us through in detail.
• Experience handing a system to developers and keeping Figma and code in step.
• Strong spoken English. You will present and defend your system on live calls with a US team.
• Full-time availability overlapping US business hours.

Responsibilities

• Token architecture in Figma: variables, modes and semantic naming, from primitives to semantic to component level.
• Component libraries that hold up across an entire site, not just a homepage.
• Handoff and documentation that let a developer or a build pipeline execute the system without questions.
• Manage several client brands simultaneously with the same underlying structure.

Skills

Design systems

Figma

Token architecture

Developer handoff

English fluency

Tools

Figma

Job description

Blacksmith Agency builds websites for clients across the US. As Senior Design Systems Designer, you will create and maintain the Figma design system—tokens, variables, modes, and component libraries—that our developers build from without questions.

This is a full-time remote role serving Latin America, overlapping US business hours, with the expectation you have a personal design system in Figma and strong English communication.