Remote Design Systems Designer – Wearables

TEKsystems; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 110,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

TEKsystems is seeking a Remote Design Systems Designer to define the visual language for wearable hardware and to build a scalable design system used across platforms. You’ll maintain Figma libraries, establish workflows, and document system usage.

You’ll collaborate with product designers and engineers to create reusable components and patterns, audit across iOS, Android, and web, and lead design system handoffs and documentation. This is a fully remote contract role based out of Chicago, IL.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product or digital design experience.
• Expert-level proficiency with Figma and design systems.
• Ability to translate product requirements into scalable components.
• Strong attention to detail and systems thinking.
• Experience creating design specifications and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Build, organize, maintain, and distribute a Figma component library.
• Create reusable components, patterns, templates, and product flows.
• Develop detailed design specifications for components and patterns.
• Write, publish, and maintain design system documentation.
• Partner with product designers to define new component variants.
• Improve design system workflows across design and engineering.
• Manage handoffs, specifications, task tracking, and updates.
• Troubleshoot design files, components, and file organization.
• Provide guidance to designers using the design system.
• Conduct design audits across iOS, Android, web, and other platforms.
• Identify opportunities to improve consistency, scalability, usability, and efficiency.

Skills

Design systems experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Detail-oriented

Documentation and specs

Systematic design approach

Tools

Figma

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Google Drive

GitHub

Keynote

Job description

TEKsystems is seeking a Remote Design Systems Designer to define the visual language for wearable hardware and to build a scalable design system used across platforms. You’ll maintain Figma libraries, establish workflows, and document system usage.

You’ll collaborate with product designers and engineers to create reusable components and patterns, audit across iOS, Android, and web, and lead design system handoffs and documentation. This is a fully remote contract role based out of Chicago, IL.