Senior Design Systems Architect — Remote

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Oriental; Remote; COP 286,615,000 - 350,307,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a senior Product Design Systems Designer who owns how client design systems get built. You’ll extract patterns from a brand and reference sites into tokens, variables, modes, and core components that a build pipeline can execute. This is a systems-first, fast-ship role across several client brands.

You should have 4+ years designing for the web with design system work in your portfolio, fluency in Figma, and strong English with US business hours overlap.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing for the web with real design system work in portfolio.
• Fluency in Figma variables, component properties, auto layout, and variants.
• A portfolio showing work across different clients with the same design system 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

Figma variables

Component properties

Auto layout

Variants

Job description

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a senior Product Design Systems Designer who owns how client design systems get built. You’ll extract patterns from a brand and reference sites into tokens, variables, modes, and core components that a build pipeline can execute. This is a systems-first, fast-ship role across several client brands.

You should have 4+ years designing for the web with design system work in your portfolio, fluency in Figma, and strong English with US business hours overlap.