Design Systems Lead — Remote, Figma & Tokens

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

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency seeks a senior Design Systems Lead who can translate brands into scalable design systems across client work. You’ll define tokens, variables, modes, and core components for a repeatable build pipeline, ensuring precision from the first line of code to the last pixel.

This role is fully remote (Latin America) and requires 4+ years designing for the web with real design system work. You’ll collaborate across multiple brands with US hours overlap.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Build token architecture in Figma using variables, modes, and semantic naming our pipeline can read predictably.
• Ship core component libraries that hold up across an entire site, not just a homepage.
• Document the system so a developer or an automated pipeline can execute it without questions.
• Work across several client brands at once, each looking distinctly different, with the same structural rigor.

Skills

Design systems

Web design

Brand consistency

Cross-client collaboration

Tools

Figma

Job description

Blacksmith Agency seeks a senior Design Systems Lead who can translate brands into scalable design systems across client work. You’ll define tokens, variables, modes, and core components for a repeatable build pipeline, ensuring precision from the first line of code to the last pixel.

This role is fully remote (Latin America) and requires 4+ years designing for the web with real design system work. You’ll collaborate across multiple brands with US hours overlap.