Senior Design Systems Designer: Figma, Tokens & UI Library

Otterbase, Inc.; Michigan; On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Otterbase, Inc. is seeking a design-system specialist to audit and advance a Figma library for internal web and mobile apps.

You will standardize visual styling, tokens, and components, enabling designers to use consistent building blocks with configurable properties, variants, and responsive behaviors. You will collaborate with a design-system developer to align assets, naming, and states, participate in reviews, and document a contribution process for future updates.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of UX, product design, or design-system experience.
• Proven ability to audit and extend a Figma design system.
• Advanced proficiency with Figma components, variants, variables, modes, and prototyping.
• Experience creating scalable design-token structures and adapting design systems to branding.
• Strong understanding of component anatomy, responsive behavior and interactive states.
• Experience designing complex data-heavy interfaces (tables, filters, forms, bulk actions).
• Accessibility knowledge: contrast, focus treatment, interaction states.
• Ability to audit a library, prioritize gaps, and execute scope independently.
• Strong attention to detail and communication; translate stakeholder feedback into design-system decisions.

Responsibilities

• Audit an existing Figma design-system library and identify gaps.
• Complete and standardize visual styling, variables, tokens, and components for new apps.
• Configure component properties, variants, responsive behavior, and interactive states.
• Enhance data-table components for filtering, sorting, pagination, selection, and bulk actions.
• Create 3–5 custom components (navigation, cards) based on audit gaps.
• Collaborate with a design-system developer to align assets with coded components.
• Participate in reviews, consolidate feedback, explain tradeoffs.
• Publish the library and propose a process for future contributions.
• If time permits, establish dark-theme tokens after light theme completion.

Skills

Figma proficiency

Design systems

UX design

Accessibility

React component libraries

Design-token architecture

Communication

Tools

Figma

IBM Carbon or similar

Job description

Otterbase, Inc. is seeking a design-system specialist to audit and advance a Figma library for internal web and mobile apps.

You will standardize visual styling, tokens, and components, enabling designers to use consistent building blocks with configurable properties, variants, and responsive behaviors. You will collaborate with a design-system developer to align assets, naming, and states, participate in reviews, and document a contribution process for future updates.