Design Systems Lead (Remote, Tijuana)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Tijuana; A distancia; MXN 1.672.000 - 2.229.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Blacksmith Agency is hiring a Design Systems Lead to build and maintain design systems and token architectures for multiple client sites. You will own Figma tokens, variables, modes, and component libraries that feed front-end development, ensuring consistency across brands.

You will interface with a US team, present designs in live calls, and ensure the system stays in sync with code. This full-time remote role requires overlapping US hours.

Formación

• 3+ years of experience building design systems or design tokens in Figma.
• Strong ability to hand off systems to developers with documented specs.
• Experience managing multiple brands with shared design system foundations.

Responsabilidades

• Own token architecture in design system (variables, modes, tokens).
• Build and maintain cross-brand component libraries for entire sites.
• Document handoff processes for developers and build pipelines.
• Present and defend the system to the US team in live calls.

Conocimientos

Figma design systems

Design tokens

Component libraries

Handoff to developers

English communication

Herramientas

Figma

Descripción del empleo

About The Role

Blacksmith Agency builds websites for clients across the US. As Design Systems Lead 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 Design Systems Lead 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.