Senior Design Systems Architect - Remote

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Pennsylvania; Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency seeks a Senior Product Designer, Design Systems to own scalable design systems across multiple client brands. You will translate brand references into a tokenized system with variables, modes, and semantic naming that a build pipeline can execute.

This is a senior, systems-first role focused on fast, correct delivery beyond single-page work. You will ship robust component libraries, document systems for developers and automation, and collaborate across brands while maintaining

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing for the web with real design system work in portfolio.
• Fluency in Figma variables, component properties, auto layout, and variants.
• Portfolio showing client-to-client variation with consistent design 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 variables

Auto layout

Semantic naming

Portfolio diversity

English proficiency

Tools

Figma

Component libraries

Job description

Blacksmith Agency seeks a Senior Product Designer, Design Systems to own scalable design systems across multiple client brands. You will translate brand references into a tokenized system with variables, modes, and semantic naming that a build pipeline can execute.

This is a senior, systems-first role focused on fast, correct delivery beyond single-page work. You will ship robust component libraries, document systems for developers and automation, and collaborate across brands while maintaining