Lead Design Systems Architect (Remote)

TEKsystems; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

TEKsystems is seeking a Lead Designer, Design Systems to shape Air's design language and reusable interaction patterns. You will own the visual language, governance, and experience quality, partnering with Design Engineers on system implementation and production integrity.

You will define foundations and patterns across web, mobile, and embedded experiences, and guide teams toward coherent, high-quality digital products.

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 Air's design language by defining visual and interaction language across typography, color, spacing, iconography, motion, hierarchy, density, data visualization, and interaction.
• Define reusable interaction patterns for navigation, configuration workflows, notifications, system feedback, responsive behavior, data-rich experiences, embedded interfaces, and emerging interactions.
• Raise the design craft bar by establishing what great looks like and standards to pursue, evaluating design in real product experiences.
• Lead through influence by partnering with designers, engineers, researchers, product managers, and brand teams to evolve Air based on real product needs.
• Shape emerging experience patterns by exploring AI and emerging technologies, defining reusable principles for conversational and adaptive experiences, and using AI-assisted workflows to improve exploration, prototyping, and documentation.

Skills

figma ux design

Tools

Design Systems

Job description

TEKsystems is seeking a Lead Designer, Design Systems to shape Air's design language and reusable interaction patterns. You will own the visual language, governance, and experience quality, partnering with Design Engineers on system implementation and production integrity.

You will define foundations and patterns across web, mobile, and embedded experiences, and guide teams toward coherent, high-quality digital products.