Design Systems Lead - Remote (Full-Time)

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

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency LLC in the United States seeks a Design Systems Lead to architect tokens, variables, modes, and component libraries in Figma so our team can ship consistent sites for multiple clients.

This full-time, in-house role requires you to own the system and its documentation, ensuring developers can implement with minimal questions while coordinating several client brands under one scalable framework.

Qualifications

• 4+ years as a product, UI or design systems designer, ideally in-house.
• You have built a design system in Figma with tokens, modes and variables.
• Experience handing a system to developers and keeping Figma and code in step.

Responsibilities

• Token architecture in Figma: variables, modes and semantic naming from primitives to components.
• Create cross-brand component libraries that hold up across an entire site.
• Provide handoff and documentation that enable developers or build pipelines to run the system without questions.
• Manage several client brands concurrently with the same underlying structure.

Skills

Token architecture

Design systems

Figma

Handoff docs

Communication

Tools

Figma

Job description

Blacksmith Agency LLC in the United States seeks a Design Systems Lead to architect tokens, variables, modes, and component libraries in Figma so our team can ship consistent sites for multiple clients.

This full-time, in-house role requires you to own the system and its documentation, ensuring developers can implement with minimal questions while coordinating several client brands under one scalable framework.