Senior Design Systems Architect — Remote

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Arkansas; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a senior Product Design Systems Designer to own how client design systems are built. You’ll extract brand patterns into tokens, variables, modes, and core components for a scalable pipeline, ensuring precision from the start.

This is a senior, systems-first role: you stand up new systems quickly across multiple client brands with rigorous consistency and cross-brand fidelity.

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 work that looks different across clients but with the same 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

Web design

Architecture

Tools

Figma

Job description

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a senior Product Design Systems Designer to own how client design systems are built. You’ll extract brand patterns into tokens, variables, modes, and core components for a scalable pipeline, ensuring precision from the start.

This is a senior, systems-first role: you stand up new systems quickly across multiple client brands with rigorous consistency and cross-brand fidelity.