Design Systems Lead: Craft Cohesive Interfaces

TEKsystems; West Palm Beach (FL); Remote; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

TEKsystems is seeking a Lead Designer, Design Systems to define and evolve a shared design system and language. You will lead the design direction, governance, and quality across products, partnering with Design Engineers who translate concepts into production.

This contract role is fully remote but based out of Palm Beach Gardens, FL, with a pay rate of $60–70 per hour. You will help creators reuse patterns, tokens, and components across web, mobile, and embedded experiences, while advancing

Qualifications

• 6+ years of product design, UX design, or design systems experience.
• Experience designing and evolving a design system used across multiple products or teams.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong visual and interaction design craft across complex digital products.
• Deep fluency in Figma and modern design-system workflows.
• Strong understanding of interaction design, design tokens, theming, responsive design, and accessibility.
• Experience partnering closely with engineering to translate design intent into scalable production experiences.
• Comfortable setting direction, influencing standards, and leading complex initiatives with high autonomy.

Responsibilities

• Evolve the Air design language across platforms and products.
• Define and evolve the design system's visual and interaction language across typography, color, spacing, iconography, motion, and data visualization.
• Establish a recognizable design point of view that raises the quality of business’ digital products.
• Create coherence across platforms and brands.
• Define foundations and patterns that connect web, mobile, and embedded experiences.
• Shape how the design system supports a portfolio of brands through tokens, themes, and visual foundations.
• Partner with Design Engineering to align design intent with production in Figma and code.
• Define reusable interaction patterns and extend patterns for navigation, configurations, and feedback.

Skills

Design systems

Figma

UX design

Interaction design

Tools

Storybook

Material UI

React Native

Qt/QML

Code Connect

Job description

TEKsystems is seeking a Lead Designer, Design Systems to define and evolve a shared design system and language. You will lead the design direction, governance, and quality across products, partnering with Design Engineers who translate concepts into production.

This contract role is fully remote but based out of Palm Beach Gardens, FL, with a pay rate of $60–70 per hour. You will help creators reuse patterns, tokens, and components across web, mobile, and embedded experiences, while advancing