Design Systems Architect — Remote & Multi-Brand Scope

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Arkansas; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work in Latin America

Full-time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency builds websites and marketing programs for clients across the US. As Design Systems Lead at Blacksmith, you own how our client design systems get built. You take a brand and a few reference sites, then extract the pattern into a working system: tokens, variables, modes, and core components a build pipeline can execute without asking you questions.

Precision is the job. This is a senior, systems-first seat. Not one-off pages, not maintenance.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing for the web with design system experience.
• Fluency in Figma variables, component properties, auto layout, and variants.
• A portfolio showing work across multiple clients with consistent rigor.
• Strong English and overlap with US business hours.

Responsibilities

• Build token architecture in Figma using variables, modes, and semantic naming.
• Ship core component libraries that scale across an entire site.
• Document the system so a developer or automated pipeline can execute it.
• Work across several client brands at once, each looking distinct but with the same structural rigor.

Skills

Design systems

Figma

Portfolio examples

English proficiency

Cross-brand consistency

Tools

Figma

Job description

Blacksmith Agency builds websites and marketing programs for clients across the US. As Design Systems Lead at Blacksmith, you own how our client design systems get built. You take a brand and a few reference sites, then extract the pattern into a working system: tokens, variables, modes, and core components a build pipeline can execute without asking you questions.

Precision is the job. This is a senior, systems-first seat. Not one-off pages, not maintenance.