Senior UI Designer, Design Systems (Remote, Tijuana)

Blacksmith Agency; Tijuana; Remote; MXN 1,213,000 - 1,679,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote (Latin America)

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a Senior UI Designer specializing in Design Systems to build and maintain robust design tokens, modes, and component libraries in Figma. You will ensure design-system integrity across multiple client sites and collaborate with a US team on live calls.

The role requires experience delivering token-driven systems, handoff to developers, and ensuring alignment between Figma and code.

Qualifications

• 4+ years as product, UI or design systems designer.
• 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. You will present and defend your system 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

UI design

Design systems

Figma

Token architecture

Handoff to developers

Tools

Figma

Design tokens

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.