Senior Design Systems Architect — Web, Remote

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Puebla de Zaragoza; Remote; MXN 1,307,000 - 2,054,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency, a US-based web design firm, seeks a Senior Web Designer, Design Systems to own how client design systems are built. You’ll translate brands and reference sites into a token-driven system with variables, modes, and core components, enabling a repeatable build pipeline.

This senior, systems-first role moves fast across several client brands, delivering robust design systems, documentation for developers or pipelines, and precise, scalable architecture from day one.

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 that looks different client to client but with consistent underlying rigor.
• 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 automated pipeline can execute it without questions.
• Work across several client brands at once, each looking distinctly different, with the same structural rigor.

Skills

Design systems

Figma

Portfolio development

English fluency

Tools

Figma

Job description

Blacksmith Agency, a US-based web design firm, seeks a Senior Web Designer, Design Systems to own how client design systems are built. You’ll translate brands and reference sites into a token-driven system with variables, modes, and core components, enabling a repeatable build pipeline.

This senior, systems-first role moves fast across several client brands, delivering robust design systems, documentation for developers or pipelines, and precise, scalable architecture from day one.