Remote Design Systems Lead — Scalable tokens & components

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Arkansas; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work from Latin America

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency in the United States is seeking a Design Systems Lead. You own how client design systems get built, extracting patterns into a token-driven system: tokens, variables, modes, and core components a build pipeline can execute without questions. Precision is the job.

This is a senior, systems-first seat working across multiple client brands with fast, accurate delivery of scalable design systems.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing for the web with real design system work in portfolio.
• Fluency in Figma variables, component properties, auto layout, and variants.
• A portfolio showing work across client brands with consistent rigor.
• Strong English and overlap with US business hours.

Responsibilities

• Build token architecture in Figma using variables, modes, and semantic naming.
• Ship core component libraries that hold up across an entire site.
• Document the system so developers or pipelines can execute it.
• Work across several client brands at once with the same structural rigor.

Skills

Design systems

Figma variables

Component architecture

English proficiency

Tools

Figma

Job description

Blacksmith Agency in the United States is seeking a Design Systems Lead. You own how client design systems get built, extracting patterns into a token-driven system: tokens, variables, modes, and core components a build pipeline can execute without questions. Precision is the job.

This is a senior, systems-first seat working across multiple client brands with fast, accurate delivery of scalable design systems.