Senior UI Designer, Design Systems (Remote, Cali)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Sur; Remote; COP 291,923,000 - 389,231,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency LLC is seeking a Senior UI Designer, Design Systems to build and maintain scalable design systems in Figma, including tokens, variables, and component libraries. You will hand off to developers and ensure alignment between design and implementation across multiple client brands.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years in product UI or design systems, with a personal design system in Figma and strong English communication to present on live calls with a US team.

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

• Build the Figma design systems our team ships every client site from: tokens, variables, modes and component libraries.
• Own token architecture in Figma: variables, modes and semantic naming from primitives to component level.
• Develop and maintain cross-client component libraries that hold up across an entire site.
• Handoff and documentation that enable a developer or build pipeline to execute the system.

Skills

UI/Design Systems

Figma Design System

Dev handoff

English fluency

Tools

Figma

design tokens

Job description

About The Role

Blacksmith Agency builds websites for clients across the US. As Senior UI Designer, Design Systems 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)

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.