Senior Design Systems Designer — Figma Tokens & Libraries

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Arkansas; Remote; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote (Latin America)

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency leads design systems work for client sites across the US. As Senior Design Systems Designer, you will build the Figma design systems our team ships for every client site—tokens, variables, modes, and component libraries that developers build from without asking questions.

This is a full-time, in-house role and must be your sole job. You will present and defend your system on live calls with a US team, and ensure seamless handoff to developers.

Qualifications

• 4+ years as product, UI or design systems designer.
• Built a design system in Figma with tokens, modes and variables.
• Experience handing a system to developers and keeping Figma and code in step.
• Strong spoken English for live client team calls.

Responsibilities

• Token architecture in Figma: variables, modes and semantic naming from primitives to component level.
• Component libraries that hold up across an entire site, not just a homepage.
• Handoff and documentation enabling development pipelines to work without questions.
• Manage several client brands at once with the same underlying structure.

Skills

Design systems

Figma

Developer handoff

English fluency

Full-time availability

Tools

Figma

Job description

Blacksmith Agency leads design systems work for client sites across the US. As Senior Design Systems Designer, you will build the Figma design systems our team ships for every client site—tokens, variables, modes, and component libraries that developers build from without asking questions.

This is a full-time, in-house role and must be your sole job. You will present and defend your system on live calls with a US team, and ensure seamless handoff to developers.