Remote Design Systems Designer - Figma, AI & Accessibility

HTC Global

United States

Remote

USD 120,000 - 170,000

Full time

2 days ago

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HTC Global Services is seeking a Senior Design Systems Designer – Figma, AI & Accessibility to own and evolve an enterprise design system powering web and native applications. You will design components, tokens, and governance, ensure WCAG 2.2 AA, and guide AI tools to consume and contribute to patterns, while driving adoption across design, product, and engineering teams.

This remote role blends design, engineering, accessibility, and AI, with opportunities to shape scalable token architecture

Qualifications

Figma power user with experience operating complex systems built on Design Tokens and Variables.
Experience creating design-system components in Figma, including components, variants, and library architecture.
Ability to create and edit Figma plugins.
Experience with the Figma MCP server and Code Connect tools.
Ability to generate and maintain skill.md files for AI automation.
Working knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA at the component-mechanics level.
Front-end literacy sufficient to discuss implementation with engineers, including HTML, CSS, React or similar.
Active AI fluency, including experience with at least one AI coding tool.
Strong technical writing skills.
Ability to present, lead meetings, and influence without authority.

Responsibilities

Design, evolve, and maintain components, patterns, and tokens from Figma library to production.
Shape layered token architecture across color, typography, spacing, radius, and motion.
Ensure design tokens translate cleanly into cross-platform code.
Govern design-system governance including contributions, reviews, versioning, and deprecation.
Maintain single source of truth for variants, states, examples, and usage guidance.
Maintain machine-readable metadata and context for AI alignment.
Review and verify AI-drafted documentation before it ships.
Build accessibility into components by default at WCAG 2.2 AA.
Test components using keyboard-only navigation and at least one screen reader.
Use AI for exploration, documentation, validation, and prototyping with agentic tools.
Define how AI tools consume and contribute to design-system patterns.
Drive adoption by unblocking designers, partnering with product owners, and supporting engineers.
Use usage, drift, adoption, and accessibility-defect data to determine what to build, fix, and retire.