Senior Design Systems Designer (Remote, Medellin)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Medellín; Remote; COP 291,602,000 - 421,203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote (Latin America)

Full-time position

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency in Medellín, Colombia seeks a Senior Design Systems Designer to build and own the Figma design system across multiple client sites. You will craft tokens, variables, modes and component libraries that developers can implement without questions.

You should have a track record of delivering cohesive design systems in-house, comfortable presenting to US teams, and ensuring cross-brand consistency while overlapping US business hours.

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 tokens, modes and variables.
• Experience handing a system to developers and keeping Figma and code in step.
• Strong spoken English and ability to defend your system on live calls with a US team.

Responsibilities

• Token architecture in Figma: variables, modes and semantic naming from primitives to component level.
• Component libraries that hold up across an entire site, not just a homepage.
• Handoff and documentation enabling developers to implement the system without questions.
• Manage several client brands at once, each distinct, with the same underlying structure.

Skills

Design systems

Figma

Design tokens

Handoff to developers

Documentation

English communication

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.