Senior Design Systems Architect - Tokens & Core (Remote)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Arkansas; Remote; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency seeks a Senior Product Design Systems Designer to own how client design systems are built. You will extract patterns into a working system with tokens, variables, modes and core components for a scalable build pipeline.

This senior, systems-first role requires delivering across several client brands simultaneously with precision and rigor, not one-off pages or maintenance. Remote work is available for Latin America.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing for the web with real design system work in your portfolio.
• Demonstrated architecture in design systems beyond tidy files.
• Portfolio showing multi-client work with consistent rigor.
• Strong English skills 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

Web design

Design systems

Figma variables

Portfolio

English fluency

Tools

Figma

Job description

Blacksmith Agency seeks a Senior Product Design Systems Designer to own how client design systems are built. You will extract patterns into a working system with tokens, variables, modes and core components for a scalable build pipeline.

This senior, systems-first role requires delivering across several client brands simultaneously with precision and rigor, not one-off pages or maintenance. Remote work is available for Latin America.