Senior Design Systems Architect (Remote)

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

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a senior Design Systems Designer who will own how client design systems are built. You will extract patterns from brands and reference sites into a working system of tokens, variables, modes, and core components that a build pipeline can execute. Precision is the job.

This is a senior, systems-first role. You will stand up new systems fast across several client brands with consistent rigor and cross-brand alignment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing for the web with real design system work in your portfolio.
• Fluency in Figma variables, component properties, auto layout, and variants.
• A portfolio showing distinct client brands with underlying design-system 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 automated pipeline can execute it without questions.
• Work across several client brands at once, each looking distinctly different, with the same structural rigor.

Skills

System thinking

Brand-to-system mapping

Design systems

Web design

Tools

Figma

Job description

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a senior Design Systems Designer who will own how client design systems are built. You will extract patterns from brands and reference sites into a working system of tokens, variables, modes, and core components that a build pipeline can execute. Precision is the job.

This is a senior, systems-first role. You will stand up new systems fast across several client brands with consistent rigor and cross-brand alignment.