Remote Design Systems Lead - Token Architect & Systems Builder

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Asturias; Remote; EUR 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote (Latin America)

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency builds websites and marketing programs for clients across the US. As Design Systems Lead at Blacksmith, you own how our client design systems get built, extracting patterns into tokens, variables, modes and core components a build pipeline can execute without questions. Precision is the job.

This is a senior, systems-first seat. You stand up new systems fast and get them right the first time, across several client brands at once.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing for the web with real design system work in your portfolio.
• Fluency in Figma variables, component properties, auto layout, and variants; architecture, not just tidy files.
• A portfolio showing work across client brands with consistent underlying rigor.
• Strong English and overlap with US business hours.

Responsibilities

• Own how client design systems are built across projects.
• Build token architecture in Figma using variables, modes, and semantic naming.
• Ship core component libraries that work across entire sites, not just homepages.
• Document the system so a developer or pipeline can execute it without questions.
• Work across several client brands at once with the same structural rigor.

Skills

Design systems

Figma

Component libraries

Token architecture

Cross-brand design

Documentation

English communication

Tools

Figma

Job description

Blacksmith Agency builds websites and marketing programs for clients across the US. As Design Systems Lead at Blacksmith, you own how our client design systems get built, extracting patterns into tokens, variables, modes and core components a build pipeline can execute without questions. Precision is the job.

This is a senior, systems-first seat. You stand up new systems fast and get them right the first time, across several client brands at once.