Senior UI Systems Designer - Scalable Design Systems & Tokens

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Asturias; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a Senior UI Systems Designer to own how client design systems are built. You will extract patterns from brands and references into a working system of tokens, variables, modes, and core components that a build pipeline can execute with precision.

This senior role focuses on building scalable design systems across multiple client brands, not one-off pages. Strong English, US business-hour overlap, and remote collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing for the web with design system experience.
• Fluency in Figma variables, components, auto layout, and variants.
• Portfolio showing multi-brand design systems.
• 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

UI design systems

Figma variables

Component architecture

English proficiency

Tools

Figma

Job description

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a Senior UI Systems Designer to own how client design systems are built. You will extract patterns from brands and references into a working system of tokens, variables, modes, and core components that a build pipeline can execute with precision.

This senior role focuses on building scalable design systems across multiple client brands, not one-off pages. Strong English, US business-hour overlap, and remote collaboration are essential.