Design Systems Designer (Remote, San Miguel de Tucuman)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Arkansas; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a Design Systems Designer to build robust Figma design systems with tokens, modes, and semantic naming. You will create reusable libraries that scale across multiple client sites and own the handoff docs that enable developers to implement the system without back-and-forth.

You will collaborate with a US-based team, present and defend your system in live calls, and ensure the design system stays in step with development.

Qualifications

• 4+ years as a product, UI, or design systems designer (in-house preferred).
• A design system built in Figma with variables, modes and tokens, with a walkthrough.
• Experience handing a system to developers and keeping Figma and code in sync.
• Strong spoken English, able to present and defend systems 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.
• Manage multiple client brands simultaneously with the same underlying structure.

Skills

Design systems

Figma

Dev handoff

English fluency

Remote collaboration

Tools

Figma

Job description

About The Role

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

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.