Senior UI Designer, Design Systems (Remote, Aguascalientes)

Blacksmith Agency; Aguascalientes; Remote; MXN 1,119,000 - 1,679,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a Senior UI Designer, Design Systems to build and maintain scalable design systems for US clients. You will create tokens, variables and components in Figma, ensuring consistency across client sites and efficient handoffs to development.

This full-time remote role requires strong English communication, experience presenting to a US team, and overlap with US business hours. You will manage several brands simultaneously within one system.

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.
• Experience handing a system to developers and keeping Figma and code in step.
• Strong spoken English; able to present on live calls with a US team.
• Full-time availability overlapping US business hours.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Figma design system

Cross-brand design governance

English communication

UI architecture

Tools

Figma

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.