Senior Design Systems Designer (Remote, Manizales)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Perímetro Urbano Manizales; Remote; COP 194,401,000 - 291,602,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote (Latin America)

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency seeks a Senior Design Systems Designer to build and own our Figma design systems for client sites across the US. You will craft tokens, variables, modes, and component libraries that developers build from without questions, and you will ensure consistency across multiple brands.

This full-time, in-house role requires strong English, over 4 years in design systems or product design, and experience handing systems to developers while keeping Figma and code in sync.

Qualifications

• 4+ years as a product, UI or design-systems designer.
• A design system personally built in Figma with tokens, modes and variables.
• Experience handing a system to developers and keeping Figma and code in step.

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.
• Several client brands at once, each distinct, with the same structure underneath.

Skills

Design systems

Token architecture

Handoff docs

Cross-functional

Tools

Figma

Job description

About The Role

Blacksmith Agency builds websites for clients across the US. As Senior Design Systems Designer at Blacksmith, you build the Figma design systems our team ships every client site from: tokens, variables, modes and component libraries that developers build from without asking you questions.

Blacksmith Agency

• Design
• Full time, your only job
• Remote (Latin America)

About The Role

Blacksmith Agency builds websites for clients across the US. As Senior Design Systems Designer at Blacksmith, you build the Figma design systems our team ships every client site from: tokens, variables, modes and component libraries that developers build from without asking you questions.

This is a full-time, in-house seat on our team, and it has to be your only job. If you run freelance clients, a studio or agency side work, or plan to keep them, this role is not a fit.

What You Will Own

• 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.
• Several client brands at once, each distinct, with the same structure underneath.

What You Bring

• 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.

Not a fit if

• You freelance or run a studio and would keep clients alongside this job.
• Your work is mainly page layouts or marketing pages, without tokens or variables.