Remote Design Systems Architect

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Arkansas; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency specializes in building websites and marketing programs for clients across the US. As Design Systems Designer, you own how our client design systems get built, extracting patterns into a working system of tokens, variables, modes, and core components for an automated pipeline.

You will work across multiple client brands, ensuring consistency and rigor while delivering scalable token architectures and component libraries.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing for the web with design system work in your portfolio.
• Fluency in Figma variables, component properties, auto layout, and variants.
• Portfolio shows work across different clients 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

Figma

Component architecture

English fluency

Tools

Figma

Job description

Blacksmith Agency specializes in building websites and marketing programs for clients across the US. As Design Systems Designer, you own how our client design systems get built, extracting patterns into a working system of tokens, variables, modes, and core components for an automated pipeline.

You will work across multiple client brands, ensuring consistency and rigor while delivering scalable token architectures and component libraries.