Design Systems Lead (Remote, Salta)

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

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency LLC is seeking a Design Systems Lead to build and maintain scalable design systems in Figma for multiple US clients. You will create token architectures, define variables and modes, and maintain cross-brand component libraries that empower developers to implement systems with minimal questions.

The role requires hands-on experience in a design system you built in Figma, plus strong English communication for live US-based team discussions.

Qualifications

• 4+ years as product, UI or design systems designer
• Designed a design system in Figma with tokens, variables and modes
• Experience handing a system to developers and keeping Figma and code in step
• Strong spoken English for live presentations with US team
• Full-time availability overlapping US business hours

Responsibilities

• Token architecture in Figma: variables, modes and semantic naming across primitives to components
• Component libraries that hold up across an entire site
• Handoff and documentation enabling developers or build pipelines to execute the system without questions
• Manage several client brands at once with the same underlying structure

Skills

Figma design system

Design tokens

English communication

Handoff to developers

Tools

Figma

Job description

About The Role

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

Blacksmith Agency

• Design
• Full time, your only job
• Remote (Latin America)

About The Role

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

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.